| I love the quote in this discussions about finding unicorns next to the unicorn factory. In addition to that argument, I find the following points in support of the lab leak hard to refute. Biologically - (1) The earliest available copies of SARS-CoV2 from 2019/2020 are incredibly stable genetically. When a virus makes the jump from one species to the next it tends to undergo rapid evolution as it adapts to a new host. We have zero evidence that this happened as if it sprung forth already adapted to the supposed new host, humans. (2) This "novel" virus infects an unbelievably large number of different cell types in the human body across *all* major organ systems. Thus, this "novel" virus jumped to humans perfectly adapted to infect dozens of different cell types across every main organ systems via multiple receptor paths via random chance? Sure. Couple those two facts with the following ... (3) WIV has been studying coronaviruses for 20 years in case of a pandemic. When one such pandemic arises, do they rise to the occasion? Do they jump in with their research? Do they help develop new therapeutics? Nope, they go completely dark and destroy evidence. If China were trying to vie as a superpower on the world stage, this was the exact wrong step to take. (4) The WIV lab in question had been part of a team that submitted a DARPA proposal in 2018. WIV's role in the proposal was to generate new chimeric Coronavirus backbones, insert different types of spikes, and trial furin cleavages in those spikes. They would then passage them through humanized mice, collect the ones that successfully reproduced, and sequence them. My jaw hit the floor when I read the proposal, which is floating around the Internet to be read by all. One might object and say that you can't trust everything on the Internet, which is very true. I came from this world. My friend is at DARPA and was on the team who reviewed (and rejected) the proposal. Please note that typically one proposes research that is not only possible but has already been successfully completed. Note that there are dozens of other facts that also support this position that I won't regurgitate here. Why does this matter? Beyond crimes against humanity and preventing this from happening again, you really need to consider how events unfolded to understand the impact this grand lie had. SARS and MERS were scary but not very good at spreading; therefore, past outbreaks were quickly extinguished. If the public had been told that this virus was likely engineered to infect people, one could imagine that the entire response to the pandemic would have been quite different. ps longCOVID is simply a persistent coronavirus infection and most of the infections appear to be persistent (some are asymptomatic until they aren't). |