Thread by @Illegalemigran1

The Wuhan Lab-Leak Scenario Is Still Plausible nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo…

Thanks to @jimgeraghty who has endured my tags on every point which I find salient to his virus interest in the Twittersphere - I owe you a hot chocolate for your patience.

'NBC News states, “scientists say that scenario is unlikely on its face, because animal-to-human transmission of viruses are common, while lab accidents are relatively rare.”'

Geraghty: 'the word “relatively” is doing a lot of work in that sentence'

"In 1979, the city of Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union suffered a sudden and mysterious outbreak of anthrax, sickening 94 people and killing at least 64 of them. The Soviets blamed tainted meat." @ydeigin

"I've seen a few people argue that the Chinese government couldn’t successfully cover up something this consequential. That suggests a stunning unfamiliarity with the totalitarian, authoritarian, surveillance-obsessed nature of the modern Chinese government" @R_H_Ebright

"Some people are genuinely insisting that an authoritarian regime could never successfully cover up the accidental release of a biological pathogen upon an unsuspecting civilian population when this precise scenario happened a few decades ago."

"Hell, our own government’s record on releasing dangerous pathogens near civilians in the 1950s and 1960s is appalling." @BillyBostickson this should be common knowledge, and people need to pay attention.