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Bats, panthers, & the utterly plausible lab-leak hypothesis (fashionable agitprop)

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https://undark.org/2021/03/18/utterly-pl...ypothesis/

EXCERPTS: It is generally best to reject out of hand any conspiracy theory that assumes more than three people have kept something secret. Which may be why a large fraction of the biomedical community rejects the suggestion that a lab leak out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) could have been the source of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the Covid-19 pandemic.

But the lab-leak hypothesis is not a typical conspiracy theory; the very circumstances of the event and its extraordinary location near the WIV give it prima facie support. Because the world of viruses, bats, and pandemic infection is intrinsically strange to most people, how about if I explain this with an analogy?

[...] Although it is possible that we will someday sort this out, it is unlikely. The only way to do that, now that the Institute itself may have been scrubbed, would be to escort all of the involved WIV officials and their families safely out of China so that they can be interviewed in a setting where they can speak freely. That’s not going to happen.

But there is one thing that I believe we can assert definitively: The statement by a WHO official that “it was very unlikely that anything could escape from such a place” is wrong to a profound degree... (MORE - details, including the analogy)
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Cynical Sindee: There's little doubt now that the Establishment wants to cuddle-up with and be protective of China again during the Biden era (Appeasing China Has A Human Cost). So it's probably a good precaution to get either your BS Meter or "skeptical face" out when it comes to administration, academics, journalism, the entertainment industry and certain other business areas going into their disinformation and ridicule mode to talk down WIV or any affiliate _X_ as either the source of or a key mediator of the virus early on.
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