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s put their tinfoil hats on and doesn't believe the science, claims that Covid was manufactured in a lab Peter Daszak lead the panel. The same Peter Daszak who headed up the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, which has funded work on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. So they picked the guy who funded the coronavirus lab work to say it wasn't a lab leak. Got it.
Did you actually read the paper? Because they go over this specifically, and why they make their assumptions on a zoonotic origin. They don’t rule out a lab creation, but they think it’s less likely, from comparing it to other known zoonotic infections. You can disagree but… they literally list this limitation and they have no evidence (partially because they don’t have access to Chinese labs, and yes they are a bit sketchy but that isn’t proof they created covid) so… would you prefer they lie about probabilities when they don’t have evidence?
This "Evidence" was founded by the panel which is CONTROLLED AND FUNDED by China, wtf else do you think they would say
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Corrupt Chinese Government and people who funded the lab that the virus supposedly was created in: "We did an internal investigation and came to the conclusion there was no wrongdoing"
Yep totally gunna buy that
That isn't what the paper said. The team was disbanded in early 2021 because of conflict of interest, but the team members continued to meet and deliberate with the information they have available. Reports and reports and reports of covid 19, analysis of the parent viruses, reports of other viruses making the leap to contagious.
But your summary doesn't correspond to what was said. They said, and I'll paraphrase too, is that the leading evidence and understanding of the virus does not point to a lab leak, not that a lab leak doesn't exist but that the evidence they have leads more support discrediting it. You can't summarize an article by giving it a clear answer, when that article didn't present it as a definitive result.
I know it's an unpopular opinion but I still think it's an unbelievable coincidence that it originated in Wuhan where there happens to be a BSL-4 lab. Thinking critically about that doesn't make you a conspiracy theorist. It's a logical hypothesis.
Why are people so fast to jump on the "IT CAME FROM NATURE" train? How did lab leak vs nature become political.
They think we are fools, it came from the lab right outside of wuhan where they were working with the virus. They need to start being real about it.
With help and funding from the US government, a lab was established in Wuhan to study novel viruses that kept cropping up in the area, notably being traced back to the "wet markets."
Propaganda.
And shit tier at that.
No biological source has been found. Covid demonstrates some unique characteristics not found in wild reservoirs.
Add to the lack of a natural source, we have evidence that the NIH was funding gain of function studies at the WuHan lab on bat coronaviruses.
It stretches credulity to believe the reservoir is natural in light of the mass of circumstantial evidence of lab origins.
The amount of conspiracy theories being thrown out here is alarming. Why would this come from a lab when most of the diseases that have hopped from animals to humans have done so naturally? I understand it's hard to trust the government and it's easy and more fun to dream up wild accusations about the origin rather than the boring truth, but this is how we've gotten so far down this misinformation rabbit hole.
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The "fact checkers" would still try and insist that Covid wasn't engineered even if it actually was, though; so I can understand a certain amount of stubbornness there. The Right are determined to believe in conspiracy theories, even if they aren't true, and the Left are determined not to believe in conspiracy theories, even if they are.
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