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1. qwerty+(OP)[view] [source] 2021-03-28 12:40:02
Obviously not. It's some random wild animal population of an unknown species, living near a bat cave in rural China.
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2. to1y+N7[view] [source] 2021-03-28 13:40:26
>>qwerty+(OP)
So this particularly odd strain came from caves 900km away and settled next to a virology institute which has been studying coronaviruses for the last 15 years? Are you a betting man? If you think about it the alternative(it came from nature) is arguably much more worrying. Does it matter? Not that much. It'd just put an end to the research. This field of study has been criticized forever for this exact reason and the fact that its basically fancy chemical warfare being sold as research for medicine. Did China let it loose on purpose? Of course not, it wouldn't have come from China. Does no one remember SARS escaped twice?
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3. dboreh+Tv1[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-03-28 23:03:03
>>to1y+N7
Sometimes events with a non-1.0 probability do occur.
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4. lamont+qO1[view] [source] [discussion] 2021-03-29 01:34:13
>>to1y+N7
> came from caves 900km away

The known RaTG13 sample came from caves 900km away and was 96% similar.

That viruses existence does not preclude the existence of a 99% similar sarbecovirus in the bats in Hubei.

Sarbecoviruses do exist in Rhinolophus bats in Hubei:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/FJ588692

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