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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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.
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Replying to @Pinboard @BeijingPalmer
Dude, near-pandemics from novel coronaviruses alone have been relatively common. SARS and MERS happened within the last two decades.
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Replying to @NickStoler @BeijingPalmer
Yeah, and those near pandemics are why they build the big coronavirus lab to study those viruses in the city where the full pandemic then originated
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Which is also the city where a lot of farmers sell tgeir produce. Farmers who constantly venture into the wild to gather super hygienic bat guano fertilizer.
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Yes, the famous bat guano farmers of Wuhan. I'm sure they spread it on the flower beds all around the coronavirus research institute.
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