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by hunterb123 1745 days ago
There's a theory the Spanish flu started in the French lines from poor conditions of Chinese workers shipped by rail. It only spread to America from servicemen coming home. The truth is we don't know fully.

That being said, it's leaning pretty heavily it was a lab leak. There has been no animal sample close. The sample RATg13 is the closest DNA match and the gain of function applied to it probably produced Covid-19.