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by SturgeonsLaw 1269 days ago
> Covid appeared on the Wuhan institute of virologies doorstep, with exactly the modification proposed in their grants. You would think this would be their time to shine but where was their help?

Where indeed. What a crazy coincidence that they were proposing to edit the the furin cleavage site on the coronavirus's spike protein, and several months later a coronavirus emerged at that location with a novel furin cleavage site on its spike protein.

They should have been in a better position to help than anybody else, but perhaps their efforts were instead focused on distancing themselves from it. For some reason.