zlacker

Yea, I'm not sure how some people can vehemently say any of the most plausible explanations are absolutely wrong or right. It seems like it's just not possible for anyone outside of a very small group in China to know the truth and also seems possible that no one at all knows exactly what happened. Without any smoking gun evidence, it seems like everything else is just guess work with some guesses a lot more educated than others.

>>boston+(OP)
Hi, you're probably right it isn't possible to know 100% the origin at this point.

All we can do is make probabilistic arguments. Inferences. Inductive reasoning.

And that sort of analysis, occam's razor based on the least new assumptions necessary to conclude the mechanism, I think the zoonotic theory is more likely.

The lab theory isn't impossible, it just requires a lot more untested and unknown assumptions.