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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by AbrahamParangi on Sunday June 11, 2023 @11:52AM (#36282511)
This would all be more compelling if the WIV were not explicitly experimenting with creating viruses like SARS-COV-2! If HIV had emerged proximal to a lab experimenting with creating viruses like HIV then that lab origin theory would be much more credible!
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by snowwrestler on Sunday June 11, 2023 @05:02PM (#36285632)
Saying “viruses like SARS-COV-2” only makes sense for broad applications of the word “like.”

As other comments have pointed out, while that lab was working with coronaviruses, none of the strains were genetically close to SARS-COV-2. Coronavirus is a broad category of viruses.

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by AbrahamParangi on Sunday June 11, 2023 @06:52PM (#36286551)
Betacoronaviruses with SARS-like attributes and natural reservoirs in bats is supposed to be a “broad application of the word ‘like’”? Bit of a stretch, no?
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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by stormfather on Sunday June 11, 2023 @07:42PM (#36286900)
According to who? The lab?
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