[jeduehr]

Also, I just want to reiterate here, we virologists have literally been saying this is going to happen from nature FOR YEARS.

People like Michael Osterholm and Peter Daszak and Vincent Muenster and Ralph Baric and Shi Zhengli have been saying this was going to happen /for years/. It was a matter of "when" not "if" to us virologists. We absolutely saw the writing on the wall and saw specifically SARS-1 and MERS and knew that meant there were likely other coronaviruses that could emerge.

But funding was always so low, because the viruses weren't currently infecting anybody! So the sampling efforts were always very minimal and underfunded!

And now, because of the lab leak theory, that has actually gotten worse, not better!

https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/gb8yye/nihs_axing...

[jeduehr]

And you also don't have to take my word for it that virologists were concerned! See all these scientific review articles demonstrating that fact:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11779380/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29270793/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26654122/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30806904/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16940861/ (this one says wet markets, which probably are an issue, but not as big as initially thought, and probably not the origin of CoV-2)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26922715/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27726088/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26689940/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27426214/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30832341/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19906932/