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by mytailorisrich 1854 days ago
What you're implying is that not only SARS-Cov-2 comes from a lab leak but that it is also artificial. That is quite a claim.

I believe that for SARS they did find it in civets sold in markets or other animals. But since that was after the epidemic in humans had started it's not clear to me if civets contaminated humans or the other way round (we've found Covid in cats and minks, maybe more, and they were all contaminated by humans).

But they only found SARS-like virii in bats, same as now there are Covid-like virii bats, and as far as I know and it did take them 15 years to find the one that gave SARS.