[astrange]

> The lab right next to the market was literally studying and experimenting with the exact same type of virus. How can a someone think that that's just a coincidence?

If they built the lab next to the viruses that were already there, then it would be reverse causation, which isn't a coincidence, but also kind of is one.

That's the meaning of "correlation is not causation".

[wk_end]

Except they didn't. The WIV was founded decades before coronaviruses were a subject of interest, and the bat coronaviruses they were researching that SARS-CoV-2 is related to all come from caves in Yunnan, which is about 1,500km away.