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I wouldn't dismiss it.

I just haven't seen any evidence of it that I think 'proves' it.

>>duxup+(OP)
Serious coronaviruses have jumped into people like, twice in the last 20 years entirely naturally[0], and so many more people have contact with animals outside of labs than within labs (orders of magnitude!), that it seems much more likely that SARS-CoV-2 jumped the same way than any lab-leak idea. Like, it's physically possible, and it would be important to know if that's what happened- people shouldn't dismiss it!- but I don't know how much it should be entertained as a real likelihood.

[0] natural insofar as humans intruding onto wildlife is natural

>>roywig+w1
Serious cornaviruses jumped into people probably dozens of times in the last 20 years, and caused 3 epidemics, not two.

>>sudosy+e3
I meant to say two times other than Sars-CoV-2 (SARS and MERS).

>>duxup+(OP)
The link between the Wuhan lab and the virus is circumstantial, sure it's strange the virus shows up in a city with the only level 4 biolab in China where they research corona viruses, but only if the virus did originate from Wuhan. I don't think we know all the corona viruses in the wild and who was patient zero was.

>>duxup+(OP)
Well it doesn't help that they've blocked the investigation.