Bats, Panthers, and the Utterly Plausible Lab-Leak Hypothesis undark.org/2021/03/18/utt… via @undarkmag
"Let’s say, for instance that a Florida panther rampaged through the South Bronx, injuring many people. It would be immediately reasonable to wonder: How could that possibly happen? Florida panthers don’t live anywhere near the Bronx and aren’t normally so ferocious."
"WIV is around 10 miles from the site of the initial outbreak in Wuhan, whereas the natural coronavirus variants that most closely resemble SARS-CoV-2 come from a region in South West China more than 900 miles away."
"WIV runs the world’s leading effort geared toward collecting wild coronaviruses from that region, and they..tinkered with the wild viruses to develop potent new strains."
"Two years before the onset of the pandemic, US diplomatic scientists visited WIV and sent back strongly worded reports to the State Department warning of inadequate safety conditions."
"And when a delegation from the World Health Organization visited the institute earlier this year, Wuhan officials limited the team’s makeup and restricted their access."
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