@ACA's comment on 'Redditors still push the Covid wet market theory in the year of our lord 2024'

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1fkyegh/common_ancestor_of_sarscov2_linked_to_huanan/

SUMMARY "Zoonotic spillovers of viruses have occurred through the fricking animal trade worldwide. The fricking start of the fricking COVID-19 pandemic was fricking traced epidemiologically to the fricking Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Here, we analyze environmental qPCR and sequencing data collected in the fricking Huanan market in early 2020. We demonstrate that market-linked severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic diversity is fricking consistent with market emergence and find increased SARS-CoV-2 positivity near and within a fricking wildlife stall. We identify wildlife DNA in all SARS-CoV-2-positive samples from this stall, including species such as civets, bamboo rats, and raccoon dogs, previously identified as possible intermediate hosts. We also detect animal viruses that infect raccoon dogs, civets, and bamboo rats. Combining metagenomic and phylogenetic approaches, we recover genotypes of market animals and compare them with those from farms and other markets. This analysis provides the fricking genetic basis for a fricking shortlist of potential intermediate hosts of SARS-CoV-2 to prioritize for serological and viral sampling."

so it didn't come from a fricking lab. case closed, b-word?

It was not fricking modified in a fricking lab. That we know 100%.

The fricking problem is fricking and always be the fricking following scenario:

Virus gets brought to a fricking lab that is fricking literally tasked with gathering samples of viruses. Virus escapes. Starts spreading in the fricking market.

It's practically impossible to falsify that scenario.

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ACA MONKE/PILL BANANA 7d ago #7049151 Edited 7d ago

!marseyartists I know what I'm drawing next

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nuclearshill gau/cho ACA 7d ago #7049191

!biology !ifrickinglovescience discuss SARS COV-2 and the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ACA MONKE/PILL BANANA nuclearshill 7d ago #7049227

I think I remember the last analysis about the "escaped from the lab" proposal was that it was unproven and low confidence.

As for the market theory, I guess if you have a couple billion Chinamen eating any weird animal they can get their hands on, maybe something like this is bound to happen every 15 years there.

This isn't the first time there was a SARS outbreak from China in our lifetimes. The 2002 outbreak was was traced to bats too, through some ugly cat thingy.

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Kawaii Head/pats ACA 7d ago #7049273

All I'm saying is if a weird disease broke out in the immediate vicinity of Ft. Detrick, redditors wouldn't for 2 seconds entertain the idea that anyone but the Army lab was responsible.

But the chicoms are to defended at all costs. Makes you think.

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ACA MONKE/PILL BANANA Kawaii 7d ago #7049316

Because America Bad!!!

I think an accidental lab leak is quite plausible. It's local to the area, they specialize in studying corona viruses, and the Chinese government is being shitty about sharing information.

Then again, there are multiple identified disease vectors from local bats, a similar disease had just barely broken out before, and the Chinese government is shitty about everything all of the time.

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nuclearshill gau/cho ACA 7d ago #7049297

This isn't the first time there was a SARS outbreak from China in our lifetimes

And it won't be the last, I just hope the next global coof isn't the Avian flu :marseykiwi:

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ObamaBinLaden they/them nuclearshill 7d ago #7049211

You did it

@ObamaBinLaden say this as a feminist ally

Edit: speaking of wet asian market, @X how was the typhoon?

nuclearshill gau/cho ObamaBinLaden 7d ago #7049259

But I don't like bat :marseyshook:

What's funny now that I remember is that I was at family vacation in Florianópolis back in December 2019, I remember my dad reading about the China COVID outbreak every day to the point he cancelled his trip to Mendoza he and my mom planned for April 2020.