This effort will increase the number of hate crimes no doubt about that

    • aerides [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      it's really not though. The Wuhan Institute of Virology studies coronaviruses by making them more contagious, funded by the US. That's a fact.

      The "natural explanation" is that somebody in Wuhan ate a bat from 1500km away and there's no evidence for that either.

      The stakes for getting this wrong are whether or not we have another once-in-a-century pandemic in 2025.

        • aerides [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          please outline the latest version of the natural theory along with evidence, because I am honestly under the impression that it makes way less sense than the lab leak. willing to change my mind.

            • aerides [comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              so the natural hypothesis requires an intermediate host to make sense, but we don't know what the intermediate host is and have no leads. if only the natural hypothesis is pursued, we will probably never actually know what happened.

              is that correct?

                • aerides [comrade/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  "we'll never know. definitely don't look at this lab at ground zero that was making coronaviruses more infectious"

                  You see why I find this hard to believe?

                  • ferristriangle [he/him]
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                    3 years ago

                    Do we have an established pattern of pinpointing the precise origin of every other disease that spread through natural transmission, or are you just pulling an unreasonable standard of evidence out of your ass and claiming that the absence of this evidence is the evidence of absence?

                    • aerides [comrade/them]
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                      3 years ago

                      Yes, it's an entire field of research called epidemiology. If the lab theory is correct we know which specific cave in Yunnan it came from.