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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
This isn't entirely accurate, through genetic sequencing scientists know this came from bats in southern in China (it's the same evidence used to show that it's a natural virus). This is the same population of bats that the researcher from the institute, who's nickname was "batwoman", went in to try and find new coronaviruses, that was the main thrust of her research.
Correct, which coincidentally was what batwoman and the institute specialized in, novel bat coronaviruses. They were seeking out what eventually cropped up in the population of the city their lab was in.
I really don't think you can say the place was overrun with scientists like it was some big clubhouse hangout, and then to stretch that even further to say that there's nothing an emerging superpower like China would keep secret is too much. The scientists quoted in Fuzz's link never professed to having first hand knowledge of the lab or batwomans work, the one guy's quote was this.
"Even if it is difficult to prove that a laboratory accident did not take place, you should know that SARS-CoV-2 is not closely related to any previous viruses; it was never sequenced (even partially) in previous studies, and the COVID-19 outbreak began in November/December, as in previous SARS epidemic events (2002 and 2003)."
He's just talking in generics about this never being sequenced before, not that he knows for a fact he saw every various in China's top bio lab and COVID doesn't match those. Bringing up the dates also seems completely irrelevant. Like I said, it's not proof positive of anything except that there were no published papers on this virus.
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The Lab in question was partially built by the French, is effectively an open institution akin to UBC, while I would not deny the Chinese no doubt have secret labs this place is literally over run with foriegners, it is the last place in the world the Chinese would study secret virus's and is frankly their showcase for how internationally open and cooperative they are (regardless of whether they are or not), you could argue that the Chinese might have a secret lab that released this virus by mistake but this lab wouldn't be it, this place was wide open on purpose