[collinfunk]

> is it really that big of a jump to connect gain of function research and bioweaponry?

Have you seen any evidence for the bio-weaponry claim?

> to be fair the world genuinely believes COVID spontaneously manifested directly next to a US funded COVID research site, so perhaps the gap is really that wide.

You would need more evidence than proximity to prove that.

[thin_carapace]

my initial claim is a conceptual link, there is absolutely nothing stopping a virus research facility from being steered in any particular direction by its funding sources. my second claim is a deduction - if a virus were to evolve anywhere on earth, what are the odds that it were to have evolved directly next to a facility specifically designed to engineer that virus? my personal answer to that question leads me not to require evidence here, terrible method of argument but it is what I believe