1. The whole pangolin-as-intermediary theory rests on one single sequenced pangolin SARS-CoV virus, published in Fall 2019 by Guangdong virologists, who were sampling pangolins that had been seized from smugglers that Spring. Nobody has ever found a pangolin virus like that againhttps://twitter.com/UngeheuerDarin/status/1401992628028297218 …
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Replying to @eugyppius1
This is a ludicrously thin empirical bases for the natural origin theory, so thin one might almost hypothesize that it was constructed in advance as a failsafe mechanism to protect gain of function research.
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Or there were earlier leaks of similar viruses with similar spike proteins, and it was thought prudent to plant the virus sequence in an article on pangolin coronaviruses.
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