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by Aunche 1918 days ago
> there's just no realistic chance a novel virus coincidentally originates in the same isolated place as a lab that specializes in that exact same type of virus

Why not? Wuhan is the 43rd largest city in the world. Meanwhile, the earliest cases of CoVid were all connected to the same wet market. Doesn't that have a higher probability being the origin?
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lixtra 1918 days ago
> the earliest cases of Covid were all connected to the same wet market.

This claim has less weight if China does not share the raw data.

[1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/who-experts-want-more-data-f...

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x3n0ph3n3 1918 days ago
Evidence points to it _not_ being from the wet markets in China:

https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-did-not-start-at-wuhan-...

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Aunche 1918 days ago
Your source cites the WSJ, which itself cites the Wuhan Virology Institute, which is trying to imply that China may not be the origin of CoVid at all, so I don't believe it.
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jdc 1918 days ago
Try this one:

Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved [March 22, 2021]

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947620

https://www.outline.com/XCTFJJ (registration-wall bypass)

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Gibbon1 1918 days ago
Perhaps it would have burned itself out if it hadn't spread to the market.
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