Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted
by danenania on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:00AM
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There are markets and farms where zoonotic transfer could hypothetically occur all over China (not only in big cities) and all over the world. Zoonotic transfers of diseases that are highly contagious and severe to humans are rare in the context of the entire world and all of human history. It happens, but not often. The odds of it happening in Wuhan specifically in a period of a few months are extremely low. Does anyone deny that?
That doesn't mean it's impossible. When it does happen, it has to happen somewhere, after all.
Except that we have another explanation that is demonstrably not extremely unlikely: a safety incident at a lab with a recent history of safety issues.
If you want to try to convince me that zoonotic transfers of diseases like Covid aren't rare, or that WIV was in fact extremely unlikely to have a safety incident, I'm all ears. I've never seen anyone even attempt to do either. Instead, the obvious statistical conclusion is simply hand-waved away.
That doesn't mean it's impossible. When it does happen, it has to happen somewhere, after all.
Except that we have another explanation that is demonstrably not extremely unlikely: a safety incident at a lab with a recent history of safety issues.
If you want to try to convince me that zoonotic transfers of diseases like Covid aren't rare, or that WIV was in fact extremely unlikely to have a safety incident, I'm all ears. I've never seen anyone even attempt to do either. Instead, the obvious statistical conclusion is simply hand-waved away.