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>>datafl+(OP)
"... proponents of lab escape can explain all the available facts about SARS2 considerably more easily than can those who favor natural emergence."

"The natural emergence theory battles a bristling array of implausibilities."

This is a fantastic article, but amazingly almost all of it is year-old news. Most of this was known in March 2020, and nearly all of it by the end of 2020. How does it take so long for the truth to win?

I published a meta-analysis covering much of the same ground in November 2020 and this was only after waiting and expecting for several months that someone with a better platform would do so first. The article above covers the most important points but the story does go deeper: https://followtheplot.org/covid19

>>follow+S31
Unfortunately, the reality is that we have no new data on the origin of covid-19.

No on-the-ground analysis has been allowed in China.

>>koheri+p81
But the article explains why no data actually leads credence to the lab-escape hypothesis.

For SARS and MERS we had data within months.

We don't have data on animals because it was a lab-escape event.

The claim that lab workers got flu-like symptoms in late 2019 blew my mind.

I wish I had time to investigate myself, but I'm 90% convinced that the reporter is correct and this is a lab-escape event.

>>raducu+Jm1
"The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses."

US government had many perverse reasons to believe things that turned out to be false.

I'm putting exactly zero trust in what US government says about what happens or happened in other countries especially those deemed by them as adversarial.

And even if such thing happened it's way more probable that it was just common seasonal illness.