seeing a lot of people saying the bullshit around lab leaks is attempting to gen up war with China. It's not even that. There's no serious prospect of war with China over this, or of this moving the needle on things like 'should we defend Taiwan.' It's pure careerism.
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again, I think you have to consider a) the long timeline it took to definitively establish an intermediate host for SARS, b) that the political volatility of the work involved in China is much greater than in 2003, which considerably impedes *even mundane* investigation
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Look at the timelines and state of knowledge on where Ebola or AIDS emerged from, say, and 'we haven't found a clear answer 18 months later' looks ... entirely normal.
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But the rest of these respiratory viruses do not have a lab origin. To me, the “smoking gun” is likely an accident of geography but who knows?https://twitter.com/nickrizzo/status/1397957164262699014 …
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