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Covid likely came from a lab per report.

China has not been forthcoming with information about the spread. They downplayed things up until the new year, then it spread rapidly.

There is evidence that multiple scientists became sick with covid like symptoms. These scientists knew the dangers these viruses presented, so you did not see spread amongst their family or hospital workers.

But there are also other people in the lab who could have been exposed and spreading the virus. There is a lot of info out there about lab leaks. It also takes time for i virus to spread before it is noticed.

It could take 4-6 weeks for a virus to spread before enough cases are noticed. There is a 4-5 day incubation period before symptoms start. If patient zero spread it to 3 people, and those people spread it to 3 more, etc. It could take 15-20 days to spread to 27 people. There is a lot of public health info that can explain this better. This is where the delay from the lab workers getting sick until the wet market outbreak.

I do believe the wet market was a super spreader event. But this type of event only occurs if there were multiple people actively spreading the virus by coughing and touching things. 1 bat locked in a cage likely would not have spread the way we saw. There also would have been a more isolated infectious zone around that bat. the natural origin just doesn't make sense with what was found in the wet market.

As far as the virus itself. The lab was using mice with humanized lung tissue for their experiments. so the scientists did not know exactly how the viruses would respond in the human body. it is possible that the virus mutated enough once in a human host that it was able to spread. there are other possibilities as well.
All of this is why I’m dubious of reports that try to reach firm conclusions about the initial outbreak. There’s simply too much we don’t know.

But people very badly want someone to blame.
 
To state an employee is smart enough to take precautions with family or friends but not at a wet market seems odd. Family and elderly family or friends would have been expected. As to the hospitalizations of flu like symptoms there was no explosion at the hospitals which also would have been expected.
 
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Remember with Covid the big thing was asymptomatic spread… it’s quite possible someone from the lab got infected and spread the virus without even knowing they were sick…
 
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"the weight of the evidence increasingly supports the lab leak hypothesis. Since the Select Subcommittee commenced its work in February 2023, more and more senior intelligence officials, politicians, science editors, and scientists increasingly have endorsed the hypothesis that COVID-191 emerged as the result of a laboratory or research related accident"


The complete document
Another propaganda "report" from the GOP.

BAU.

Meanwhile, the scientists inform you that the evidence points to the wet markets.
China would prefer the "lab leak", because it means they don't need to crack down on the wet markets and have to import more farm food from us.
 
Remember with Covid the big thing was asymptomatic spread… it’s quite possible someone from the lab got infected and spread the virus without even knowing they were sick…

Evidence cannot support this, because it means the spread would have been more uniform around the lab area as the center point.

But it doesn't; it shows the wet market as the center point, and the lab a couple miles away.
 
Wait……..we are still going with the bats at the wet market theory?

The most interesting aspect here is how much energy the GOP has put into pushing the "lab leak theory", and done nothing to mitigate the problem, or hold China accountable.

If this was a wet-market source transfer, the proper response would be to pressure China to close all wet markets and ban the capture and sale of those high-risk animals. GOP doesn't want to alienate China, so they will not do this, which is why they want to push the lab leak hypothesis.


If this were a lab leak, GOP is doing nothing to prevent China from another leak; but this also lets China off the hook with respect to wet markets where there is still substantial risk.

GOP spends more time feeding the conspiracies, than actually coming up with anything to prevent a future outbreak. If they are convinced this was a lab leak, what are they functionally doing about it? Nothing.
 
The most interesting aspect here is how much energy the GOP has put into pushing the "lab leak theory", and done nothing to mitigate the problem, or hold China accountable.

If this was a wet-market source transfer, the proper response would be to pressure China to close all wet markets and ban the capture and sale of those high-risk animals. GOP doesn't want to alienate China, so they will not do this, which is why they want to push the lab leak hypothesis.


If this were a lab leak, GOP is doing nothing to prevent China from another leak; but this also lets China off the hook with respect to wet markets where there is still substantial risk.

GOP spends more time feeding the conspiracies, than actually coming up with anything to prevent a future outbreak. If they are convinced this was a lab leak, what are they functionally doing about it? Nothing.

Speaking of conspiracies, I’m still waiting to see Trump pee tapes
 
Translation: "I don't care that Republicans have no plan here; I just want to elect them so they'll push the conspiracies I like"

Translation is……I bought bats until I found out there is a laboratory located there working on gain of function research.

In addition, knowing that the US was possibly funding this makes even more sense why a lab leak theory was demonized.
 
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Carbon fiber, or aluminum?


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The most interesting aspect here is how much energy the GOP has put into pushing the "lab leak theory", and done nothing to mitigate the problem, or hold China accountable.

If this was a wet-market source transfer, the proper response would be to pressure China to close all wet markets and ban the capture and sale of those high-risk animals. GOP doesn't want to alienate China, so they will not do this, which is why they want to push the lab leak hypothesis.


If this were a lab leak, GOP is doing nothing to prevent China from another leak; but this also lets China off the hook with respect to wet markets where there is still substantial risk.

GOP spends more time feeding the conspiracies, than actually coming up with anything to prevent a future outbreak. If they are convinced this was a lab leak, what are they functionally doing about it? Nothing.
Newsflash...the POTUS has not been repping the GOP for the past 4 years. Good grief...you will stop at nothing to bend reality to your Twitter fueled opinions.
 
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