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by brutt 2211 days ago
A level 4 virus lab had major incident at 16.09.2019: some equipment was stolen from lab, because of fire blast. Incident was caught on video. After that spike of pneumonia cases of unknown origin happens. Now, testing shows that people already have antibodies for SARS-CoV-2, but no virus, and they were not sick for two months, so they had it for at least two months before anybody else. However, lab is not in China, which Trump hates, but in another country near to China, which Trump loves.
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That's precisely my point. I'm in no way suggesting that such incidents are only possible in China. Simply put, shit happens and protocols get violated. I work at a research institute with a level 3 lab and find it entirely plausible that it can happen here. So do the health and safety people who meticulously check whatever they can think of multiple times a year.