RE: Official live update of spread of COVID19
August 31, 2021 at 1:07 am
(This post was last modified: August 31, 2021 at 1:09 am by HappySkeptic.)
(August 31, 2021 at 12:51 am)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: when you start putting all of these things together, it starts looking like there's a very good chance it could have very well come from the lab.
There are suspicious things, yes.
However, the lab-leak theory does have elements of conspiracy thinking, in that the circumstantial evidence is cherry-picked and put together into a nice story, without trying to find benign explanations for elements of the story. When there isn't transparency, people make up their own stories.
A natural setting has many more chances of a species jump for such a virus, and there isn't any real evidence that WIV was doing gain-of-function research. Virologists point out it may take years to find the natural origin, and it might NOT be near Wuhan.
Yeah, I've been arguing both sides today, but that's because everyone just seems to have made up their mind and are going on emotion. I'm still going with 10:1 odds of natural origin, but that's just going with the weight of how sure the scientists seem to be (and they don't have a lot to go on).