On 7/05/2021 10:37 am, Kim Holburn wrote: > Is this at all likely? I don't know enough about genetic engineering > to know. > > https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038 > > > IMHO, you don't need to know anything about genetic engineering, just human nature:
The important two paragraphs in that whole report are: Doubts about Natural Emergence "Natural emergence was the media’s preferred theory until around February 2021 and the visit by a World Health Organization commission to China. The commission’s composition and access were heavily controlled by the Chinese authorities. Its members, who included the ubiquitous Dr. Daszak, kept asserting before, during and after their visit that lab escape was extremely unlikely. But this was not quite the propaganda victory the Chinese authorities may have been hoping for. What became clear was that the Chinese had no evidence to offer the commission in support of the natural emergence theory. This was surprising because both the SARS1 and MERS viruses had left copious traces in the environment. The intermediary host species of SARS1 was identified within four months of the epidemic’s outbreak, and the host of MERS within nine months. Yet some 15 months after the SARS2 pandemic began, and a presumably intensive search, Chinese researchers had failed to find either the original bat population, or the intermediate species to which SARS2 might have jumped, or any serological evidence that any Chinese population, including that of Wuhan, had ever been exposed to the virus prior to December 2019. Natural emergence remained a conjecture which, however plausible to begin with, had gained not a shred of supporting evidence in over a year." The Chinese had a vested interest in coming up with something, anything that supported Natural Emergence, even if it was marginal. That they didn't, speaks volumes. When you look at the vested interests and behaviour of the people promoting Natural Emergence, the "lab escape" argument seems very strong. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Canberra Australia email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
