[lazyeye]

Semantics...unless you are suggesting that all natural viruses brought into the lab were inert before they passed through the doors to the lab.

[lamontcg]

Yes, most of the samples were. You don't need live virus in order to sequence.

Which was the problem with all the studies early in 2020 finding SARS-CoV-2 mRNA on surfaces after X hours.

Also the problem with high cycle count rtPCR results long after symptoms have abated.

You can study genomes without ever having to deal with infectious virus, which is vastly simpler.

[lazyeye]

Whats the point of the extraordinary high levels of bio-security restrictions in these labs then? Wuhan is BSL-4?

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.21487

[lamontcg]

The fact that they studied infectious virus in the lab doesn't mean that every sample they studied was infectious virus.

[lazyeye]

Nobody said that.