Thread by @scotub

In my own opinion of lab or nature, this interview was my personal ‘smoking gun’, no need to delve into FCS or cover-ups / conspiracy.

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WIV, per this admission from Daszak in late 2019, was in possession of “over 100” SARs-like coronaviruses. He says “very similar to SARs” he adds some are “capable of infecting human cells, of infecting humanized mice […and] causing SARs-like illness”

Yet, only a handful of these have ever been published. How many is “some” … how many were being processed in human cells, or humanized mice? Is this number (let’s even say 3) larger than the expected number of natural spillover opportunities in Wuhan?

Given that Wuhan has not uncovered an intermediate host, nor are the bats native to Wuhan, natural spillover in Wuhan must be presumed to be from an infected human from wherever this reservoir existed to spillover.

Necessarily, we are comparing the odds that one patient zero arrived in Wuhan to seed the virus there, verses the odds that one of -at least some- SARs-like viruses (known to infect human cells) were in Wuhan, being worked at at the WIV in conditions that were not ideal.

In 2018 the US intelligence agency warned this very lab was not following adequate safety protocols. We know they had worked with other SARs-like viruses with minimal PPE before, at BSL2! (No protection against aerosol transmission at this level).

So, is it really much more likely in your minds, given what is readily known, that the lab is not worthy of investigation? How can anyone with a sense of decency claim they are certain natural spillover remains the far more likely scenario. The short answer is: they can’t.