There are cell culture hoods and good ventilation in BSL2 TC rooms. But just ask any scientist who works at BSL2 how frequently they hear about someone else touching door handles with their gloves on or cleaning up spills in the centrifuges. Or how often they get contamination.
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We lack a good framework for thinking about this, because everyone think they might be Columbo and discover the clue intentionally hidden by a *human*. It’s narratively satisfying. But *every other novel disease ever* has emerged via evolution. Narratively unsatisfying.
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And yet the WIV was an institution literally set up up to identify and collect novel pathogens in one place. A leak from there at some point is an odds on certainty.
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SARS-1 zoonotic outbreak that killed people had stonewalling, cover-up, non-transparency from China too, and China has a history of that sort of behavior around things that are embarrassing to but not created by it, so that doesn't actually follow does it?
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They attempted to cover up SARS in 2003 as well- that's just an authoritarian government being authoritarian.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/09/sars.china …
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I mean, go ahead and throw out ANY information via the Chinese government- then all we have to work with is the genome of the virus itself, which is 100% consistent with a natural origin.
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The same type of research was again funded through EcoHealth Alliance but now done outside of China; project start 2020-06-17