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    1. James Palmer‏ @BeijingPalmer May 27

      thing that has happened a reasonable amount: lab accidents thing that has not happened before: lab accidents resulting in the release of a previously unknown virus thing that has happened a lot before: zoonotic transfer producing previously unknown viruses

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    2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 27
      Replying to @BeijingPalmer

      Your reasoning is flawed in two ways here. First, it would go through if there were regular novel virus pandemics, but they are rare, and so you can't make this inference. Second, lab accident release does not preclude zoonotic transfer as the original origin.

      5 replies 0 retweets 31 likes
    3. James Palmer‏ @BeijingPalmer May 27
      Replying to @Pinboard

      novel viruses are rare but there have been a lot! novel viruses that produce pandemics is a tiny category. on the second, sure, it's possible but ... why imagine an extra step that we have no evidence for, instead of just good old, has happened a bunch zoonotic transfer

      2 replies 0 retweets 45 likes
    4. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 27
      Replying to @BeijingPalmer

      *Pandemics* are a tiny category so you can't reason back the way you did. On the second point, there's a virus lab that studies these viruses in the NYC-sized city where the pandemic started. This is not the remote wilds of Yunnan where weird animals abound. That's suggestive.

      3 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
    5. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 27
      Replying to @Pinboard @BeijingPalmer

      A lot of this discussion implies that there's a perfectly well-documented zoonotic pathway that is being shouted down by conspiracists but that's not my understanding. The virus lab leak hypothesis answers the difficult question of how a weird zoonotic strain ended up in Wuhan

      7 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
    6. James Palmer‏ @BeijingPalmer May 27
      Replying to @Pinboard

      this is not a difficult question! the virus was detected in a major city *because it's a major city.* if it originated in the countryside, a handful of people getting sick would be noise.

      2 replies 0 retweets 33 likes
      Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 27
      Replying to @BeijingPalmer

      This is stuff that can be run down to ground and should help us decide. The original line wasn't "this showed up in Wuhan and God knows where it came from," it was that "the pandemic started at this very specific wet market," a claim that then got walked back

      1:32 PM - 27 May 2021
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        2. Pinboard‏ @Pinboard May 27
          Replying to @Pinboard @BeijingPalmer

          If my house burns down, I am going to have questions for the Center of the Study of Raging Housefires next door, even though there's no record of them ever having committed arson

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        3. James Palmer‏ @BeijingPalmer May 27
          Replying to @Pinboard

          if there's a kitchen fire in the city and it spreads, do you assume that the Center of the Study of Raging Housefires did it, or do you assume it was a kitchen fire?

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