Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted
by rossdavidh on Sunday June 11, 2023 @11:22AM
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Well, no one knowledgeable about the field. I have, unfortunately, heard otherwise intelligent people saying that the Chinese government doesn't mind sacrificing it's own people, and did launch it in its own city on purpose (which is, to be clear, ridiculous).
"Never ascribe to conspiracy, what is adequately explained by incompetence".
I think the evidence is pretty clear that at least the Chinese government believes that the covid-19 virus came from their lab (they could, of course, be mistaken about that).
Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted
by staunton on Sunday June 11, 2023 @06:28PM
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> I think the evidence is pretty clear that at least the Chinese government believes that the covid-19 virus came from their lab
What evidence are you referring to?
Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted
by Ireallyapart on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:43PM
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> The article claims that Chinese army researchers were at the lab researching viral weapons. That sounds like ill-intent to me.
The US does weapons research it does not mean ill intent. The Chinese does weapons research for the same reason the US does it.
It also states that Covid-19 is the only Coronavirus discovered with a furin cleavage site on the spike, and that the lab had applied for funding to research the insertion of such a site.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that the lab deliberately launched a pandemic by deliberately releasing the pathogen on its own doorstep.