https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/05/25/timeline-how-wuhan-lab-leak-theory-suddenly-became-credible/ …. A key point: lab leak does not imply manipulation and manipulation does not imply ill intent.
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As a result, there is huge element of "Been there, done that" to the Wuhan "lab leak" hypothesis, particularly given its association with the loonier "plandemic" conspiracy theories that began early in the pandemic.
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We all live in a lab
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Even if it did somehow escape from a lab, these people take all sort of unrealistic creative license with that. E.g. “Fauci created this, Bill Gates made it so we’d need a vaccine and he could then microchip us,” etc.
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Is it also possible they were studying a novel strain and those researchers were infected by said strain outside of their work? It seems more plausible to me that someone not taking any precautions outside of work might be more susceptible to infection. 1/
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After all, all it would take is one researcher being infected outside of work, who could then go onto infect their co-workers. Not saying accidental lab release is impossible, but lab workers being infected by a super contagious disease that could have been spreading unknown 2/
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