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Originally Posted by Escape Artist
You seem to have a lot of knowledge on the subject. As you probably know, Sars-Cov1 did have an animal intermediary, as did MERS. They've never found the animal this time even though the Chinese claimed they had only to be refuted and exposed by other scientists. The genome sequence needs to be almost as exact match and the closest they ever got was 96%.
The Chinese were present when they did the gain of function research at Univ. of North Carolina lab where they successfully infected HeLa cells (human cells) with horseshoe bat coronavirus. So the Chinese just continued on with it in Wuhan, along with other bioweapons research. Although virus escapes have happened, this was no accident. Not with the timing of it and then the elaborate cover up and lies by the Chinese. As late as mid-January, at least two months after the first COVID case, knowing full well what was happening in their country they still permitted travel abroad.
Nice "business partners", eh?
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Hanlon's razor is appropriate here. "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity".
I think of the leak as stupidity and poor controls.
I think the coverup was malice. Not stopping international flights out of Wuhan, but stopping domestic flights? Malice. Taking the viral database offline? Malice. Lying to the WHO, Malice. Showing videos of people falling over in the street? Malice. etc.
They knew exactly where this came from and who did it and have spared no lives in making sure no one else figures it out. The problem with that is the genome is hard science. You can't fudge it, it's testable out of their control.
Now that it's passed to animals, they will probably deflect and suggest that the animal reservoirs were the source, rather than the other way around. White tail deer in Michigan? I read an article on that yesterday but I haven't run it down.