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>>Flatci+(OP)
The lab leak theory is nonsense and a distraction. If you compare where the mutations of sars-cov-2 are, relative to a wild type bat coronavirus, they are distributed randomly across the genome. If you were to genetically engineer a virus, those mutations would not be random, there would be a discrete chunk of edited base pairs that had been spliced in from somewhere else but that isn’t present. It seems unlikely that in this day and age a virology lab would be doing gain of function experiments without crispr since it’s far easier than the alternative.

>>FuckBu+cZ
Nothing about the lab leak theory requires that what leaked was engineered. Just mis-handling a field sample so that somebody in the lab catches and passes it on can be (and, possibly, was) wholly as bad as an engineered sample leaking.

Here, there are hints that the leak was of, explicitly, samples cultured from the 2013 clinical cases.