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by fg6hr 2281 days ago
Didn't the virus start from the Wuhan virus lab?
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No, probably not.

There is evidence that there virus was not engineered. The spike protein is completely novel and existing techniques for finding bonding proteins do not see this virus as a good binding candidate.

It is conceivable that the lab was studying bat coronavirus and accidentally released it, but Occam's razor suggests that the market where most early patients contacted the virus, similar to the market where SARS evolved, is the actual source.

Stop spreading the conspiracy theories, please.

(Even those that say it started from the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick...)

There is absolutely no evidence showing the virus started from a lab, regardless of Chinese or American.

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There's a decent amount of evidence to suggest it did, and China has already shown themselves unreliable (putting it mildly) regarding information about the virus. I don't think you have a leg to stand on if you propose to speak with such certainty.
I'd be interested in reading any evidence, could you provide some links?
No evidence here, but it shouldn't be dismissed either.

From Wikipedia ..

> Coronavirus research In 2005, a group including researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology published research into the origin of the SARS coronavirus, finding that China's horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.[6] Continuing this work over a period of years, researchers from the Institute sampled thousands of horseshoe bats in locations across China, isolating over 300 bat coronavirus sequences.[7]

In 2015, the Institute published successful research on whether a bat coronavirus could be made to infect HeLa. A team from the Institute engineered a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and mimic human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.[8][9]

Nobody believes in this "theory" because the evidence is shoddy. But yeah, maybe its all a coverup. You can believe anything you want, for any reason.
This entire thread will be taken down shortly. I've noticed the interesting pattern of comments being downvoted or flagged if they mention the lab.
Because nobody cares about conspiracy theories.
"China’s only Level 4 microbiology lab that is equipped to handle deadly coronaviruses, called the National Biosafety Laboratory, is part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology." In fact, when all this started, China was quite open about the lab story. Only when the containment failed, CCP decided to erase the lab story from the news.