Barely matters, but I would bet on the latter but people always read lab leak like it is the former and usually call it crazy, as of a natural virus leaking from a lab that researches them is impossible.
I think it matters a lot actually. Developing biological weapons is a pretty big no-no, and I would expect that kind of lab to have extremely stringent controls on what goes in and comes out. A regular “run of the mill” lab can be surprisingly permeable though, but most of the stuff that might get it out is not going to be “hot” like COVID 19 was.
Before they found a way to make Covid 19 political, they were reporting on that lab that was selling and buying animals at the local market. They were reporting it in an informative way, not even blaming china in general. Then people on both sides went crazy, and all real reporting got sidelined for rhetoric. Either way, I doubt there is anything the world’s governments could do about either random bio labs in China being too lax or China itself researching bio weapons. (Two of my grandparents died on the same day of covid 3 years ago, so I definitely don’t dismiss either option as completely not mattering, but I also don’t think either thing would make any real difference as I couldn’t do anything about it either way personally and it is laughable to think any government will.)
I’m not claiming to know the truth. But all the “gain of function” stuff I’ve seen sounds like bullshit. Proteins are so complex that, without doing actual Tuskegee type shit, I didn’t think it’s realistic. So I’m leaning heavily in the wild specific bank, but I won’t rule out the other option completely.
COVID-19 was a lab leak.
Now let me be clear I think Fauci is a god damned saint and national hero for putting up with the shit he did. We don’t deserve someone like him.
Woooooow soo brave, soooo controversial haha
Got me banned from “the right can’t meme” on Reddit.
Lab leak…meaning it was created in a lab, or lab leak meaning that a specimen collected in the wild and brought to a lab and mistakenly released?
Barely matters, but I would bet on the latter but people always read lab leak like it is the former and usually call it crazy, as of a natural virus leaking from a lab that researches them is impossible.
I think it matters a lot actually. Developing biological weapons is a pretty big no-no, and I would expect that kind of lab to have extremely stringent controls on what goes in and comes out. A regular “run of the mill” lab can be surprisingly permeable though, but most of the stuff that might get it out is not going to be “hot” like COVID 19 was.
Before they found a way to make Covid 19 political, they were reporting on that lab that was selling and buying animals at the local market. They were reporting it in an informative way, not even blaming china in general. Then people on both sides went crazy, and all real reporting got sidelined for rhetoric. Either way, I doubt there is anything the world’s governments could do about either random bio labs in China being too lax or China itself researching bio weapons. (Two of my grandparents died on the same day of covid 3 years ago, so I definitely don’t dismiss either option as completely not mattering, but I also don’t think either thing would make any real difference as I couldn’t do anything about it either way personally and it is laughable to think any government will.)
I’m not claiming to know the truth. But all the “gain of function” stuff I’ve seen sounds like bullshit. Proteins are so complex that, without doing actual Tuskegee type shit, I didn’t think it’s realistic. So I’m leaning heavily in the wild specific bank, but I won’t rule out the other option completely.
But that happens to viruses all the time? How do you think we get flu pandemics?
By truly gigantic numbers IN THE WILD. Not in a lab
Not sure what you mean?
As in the people inside the lab weren’t creating a supervirus.