On: The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pan...

[koheripbal]

Unfortunately, the reality is that we have no new data on the origin of covid-19.

No on-the-ground analysis has been allowed in China.

[raducu → koheripbal]

But the article explains why no data actually leads credence to the lab-escape hypothesis.

For SARS and MERS we had data within months.

We don't have data on animals because it was a lab-escape event.

The claim that lab workers got flu-like symptoms in late 2019 blew my mind.

I wish I had time to investigate myself, but I'm 90% convinced that the reporter is correct and this is a lab-escape event.

[scotty79 → raducu]

"The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses."

US government had many perverse reasons to believe things that turned out to be false.

I'm putting exactly zero trust in what US government says about what happens or happened in other countries especially those deemed by them as adversarial.

And even if such thing happened it's way more probable that it was just common seasonal illness.

[jerf → koheripbal]

As this is now over a year later, this is a data point.

It isn't proof. But it is a data point, not lack of data.

[bedhead → koheripbal]

I mean, doesn't that alone kinda point us in one direction?