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Re:First People Sickened by Covid-19 Were Chinese Scientists... by gojomo on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:23PM (#36332909)
All you need for a market cluster is one infected person to visit once, & pass the infection along to one or more people who then also spend time there and pass it on. There's no challenging "why" needed.
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Re:First People Sickened by Covid-19 Were Chinese Scientists... by throwaway5752 on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:26PM (#36332962)
The same explanation works in the other direction.
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Re:First People Sickened by Covid-19 Were Chinese Scientists... by gojomo on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:39PM (#36333137)
Yes, but the coincidence of 3 gain-of-function researchers being the very 1st simultaneous infectees would be far more remarkable than a crowded place being the 1st spot that's noticed as a cluster.

No matter the origin, certain dense public places will turn up. But 3 researchers with likely larger-than-average scrupulosity about infection risks, working on increasing the virulence of bat viruses? Pretty sus!

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