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.
But to your earlier point, we found answers for things like AIDS decades after the fact, in places where there was almost no record-keeping. You can't hand China a veto over this investigation, or decide to wait on it until the political consequences are less ticklish.
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ok, what does 'handing China a veto over this investigation' mean? By what means do we conduct the investigation *without* it being subject to the current state of Chinese politics?
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I'm not competent to answer that, since I don't know the investigatory techniques used in a search like this. What I mean by handing China a veto is conditioning whether or not a full investigation happens based on China's willingness to cooperate.
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There were tissue samples from Zaire not under government control for HIV. As with HIV, phylogenetics now provides a rough answer (bat virus, like SARS). If there was a seropositive lab worker, a) lab would produce junk data and b) PRC would not help. a)would be unusually bad
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