@KoreanDramaKing'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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suggykong love/you sorry for not posting, I've been fighting my demons (microplastics in my brain) 5mo ago #7049320

Since the conspiracy theorists are going to show up here, I'll make you an offer:

If you can show me actual evidence (not coincidences in time or space) that the virus originated from a lab leak, I will send you a check for $100. This is a lot of money for me right now, but I'll do it.

Show me the evidence, and I'll send the check.

EDIT: Conspiracy theorists who reply with coincidences and fables are getting no checks and getting blocked.

I'm sorry, but people who are adamant that this was NOT a lab leak then must provide evidence of the natural carrier. Where is this natural carrier and why can't we find it?