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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I think, as I've said before, that you way overweigh the significance of it being *discovered* - not emerging - in a very large city. It is a remote possibility that is worth investigating. That investigation is also politically impossible, as we saw with the botched WHO report.
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again, if we map the distance between where we *detect* outbreaks and where they turn out to have originated, it is usually quite considerable.
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My main qualm with you is the idea you're promulgating that there's something a priori unlikely about a lab leak origin. Lab leaks are common, zoonotic transfer is common, pandemics are extremely rare. Having an example of the latter gives us nothing solid to reason from
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there are zero known instances of a pandemic occurring due to a lab leak, and many known instances of pandemics occurring due to zoonotic transfer. please just stop.
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