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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
There's no reason to believe this is what happened. Most virologists are saying that gain of function research would never have used the changes seen in this particular one. There's millions of different Coronaviruses in Nature, why settle on one the models would suggested won't work in humans? These mutations happen literally all the time in nature and there's nothing but innuendo that something was changed in a lab when these changes occur naturally. That's a big reach
Well yes, they were specifically studying Coronaviruses because it was a great spot to do so due to SARS originating from the wild nearby. In fact, the Wuhan Lab was built because of SARS so they could test the nearby wildlife and monitor coronaviruses that were changing nearby. Again, the lab was built there because it was the best place to study coronaviruses nearby.
If they knew it was a lab leak, they would've known the progenitor and would've pointed to it immediately. This is very silly speculation. Because a nation routinely lies does not mean that imaginary things are then true when they say no.
Why?
This whole lab leak theory goes like this:
There's zero evidence to suggest it , but we feel they're shady and they're denying it, so I believe it to be true.
Meanwhile, thousands of viruses become human pathogens naturally (literally every single one ever!) but we're going to believe that in this specific case they found a pathogen that affects humans but somehow no one had been infected yet, then they bring it to a lab to test it but oh noes it escapes, and we should believe that because they're shady. I don't get it.
The actual people who did the actual investigation say they saw no reason to believe anything other than natural origin which happens all the time (like all the last pandemics that have happened).
Natural origin is by a million times the most likely, but I'm supposed to believe it either occurred naturally but by a miracle the scientists found it before it had jumped to a human or other animal but then they got careless, or that a virologist that knows an awful lot things not a single virologist elsewhere knows and made it but oh noes it escaped. Could any of that be possible? Sure, but then why not speculate more? Maybe the Russians made it but didn't want the blame? Or maybe the US did it? There's an equal amount of evidence there...
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There's a very good reason why the US is pursuing the lab theory right now. The Biden administration has received enough intelligence to demand answers on the origin of the pandemic.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/worl...eory-1.4579879
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“The Biden administration has now studied the mountain of disturbing evidence that we were confronted with in the last few months of the Trump administration,” said David Asher, who led a state department investigation into the origins of Covid. “It is jaw dropping. And as they have noted, a great deal more needs to be assessed.”
Days before Biden was sworn in, the state department issued a fact sheet on the Wuhan institute that said several researchers had fallen ill with Covid-like symptoms before the first publicly known case. It also said the institute had worked secretly with the Chinese military.
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The only reason why the world didn't push the lab theory earlier is because it got politicized right away and giving any credibility to the Trump administration could have impacted election chances.
Why on earth would you believe that Biden would throw the Republicans and Trump a bone and suddenly side on the lab leak theory when he had
zero reason to do so? There's a reason why he is, because there is enough intelligence pointing to it being a probable cause. Even Fauci has changed its tune on it, likely having seen the same evidence as Biden did and doing so from a medical SME perspective.
This has been 100% political from the start.
Again, the fact that Biden is leading the push for a full investigation in the lab and made a statement on it when he has zero to benefit from it politically should make you stop and rethink your stance.
Yes viruses mutate naturally all the time, but there's too much corroborating evidence surfaced recently pointing to a potential lab leak and China's refusal to allow a proper investigation. There's a reason why the US is looking into the possibility of this being a lab leak when a year ago it was shelved as a conspiracy nut theory.