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>>datafl+(OP)
The origin of COVID-19 is going to be one of the biggest news stories in 2021-22 IMO. China's global reputation is going to take a hit. I don't think they did this intentionally. I think everyone had the best of intentions and either they found something deep in a bat cave or there was a lab mishap. I've gone down the rabbit hole on this issue. Here are some interesting links https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=R01AI110964&hl=en&as_sd... is the papers done by a NIH grant to Eco Health Alliance. This shows they were looking for new variants of Coronavirus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089274/pdf/114... This shows they were artificially synthesizing Coronaviruses and incubating them in monkey cells. Dr. Peter Daszak seems to be in the center of a lot of this and IMO had a conflict of interest being on the WHO COVID-19 origins report.

>>Bayesi+M41
Is it fair to blame China alone if the institute was financed with foreign help?

>>blumom+fH1
They are responsible for enforcing safety standards, or having safety standards in the first place. Financiers have no authority on building standards or procedures, particularly in a place like China.

>>himinl+Kq2
And what if that foreigners had paid you to create that deadly thing of a virus, even if it was just to see how bad a virus could be?