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by burfog 2285 days ago
Those are arguments against "designed as a bioweapon" and "intentional release by government". They are not arguments against "created in a lab", "lab containment accident", or "intentional release by crazy employee".

We know for a fact, based on research published in Nature and in Journal of Virology, that the lab in Wuhan was modifying bat coronaviruses to replicate well in human cells. Some of these modified viruses were changed to use the ACE2 receptor found in humans, just as the pandemic virus uses.