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A million deadly new viruses, and one breaks through. Finding exactly that one is kinda hard! But finding bats with multiple scary coronaviruses at the same time is trivial.

Staring yourself blind on this specific strain of coronavirus misses the forest for the tree (yes, singular tree). There's literally a forest of nasty shit out there and you're saying "but the scientists couldn't find this one specific tree when they went looking in the Amazonas". Of course they didn't. C19 is highly contagious in humans, not in bats. For bats it's just one out of a million things that don't bother them.

> Anyone who doesn't see that lab leak is the most likely source is just being contrarian for their own ego or political reasons.

I disagree. I think those who can't accept natural origins as a hypothesis underestimate the size and variation of the viruses out there in nature.