What is the most accepted theory on the origin of the coronavirus – lab leak or natural occurrence? #CoronavirusOrigin #LabLeakTheory #VirusOrigins
Have researchers determined if the virus originated from a lab or naturally? #COVID19 #OriginOfVirus #LabAccident
Subheadings:
Confusion over Coronavirus Origin Theories
– Exploring the Various Theories
– Seeking Clarity Amidst Conflicting Reports
Clearing Up the Confusion
– Understanding the Lab Leak Theory
– Unraveling the Natural Origin Theory
Seeking Answers to Your Questions
– What Experts Say
– Importance of Continuing Research
– Acknowledging Uncertainties
Remember, our priority is to provide accurate and informative content that addresses your concerns about the virus’s origin. Let’s delve into the facts and explore the current understanding of how the coronavirus emerged.
I think its quite likely that it came from a lab. The virus seems to have originated in China, near an infectious disease lab where they were studying related viruses. My understanding is that as time has gone on its become far more clear that this is the likely cause although its not certain.
I think the initial confusion around it (at least in the US) had to do with one political side saying that’s what happened so the other side reflexively said that it was something else. Its a common thing in American politics where once one party takes sides in an issue the other automatically takes the other side even if its ridiculous. The main exception to this is when it comes to expanding the surveillance state and government power.
Unfortunately we don’t have closure on that still, and it’s a tricky thing to accurately determine.
I read a medical journal which has this to say in conclusion:
“on the one hand, it seems evident that the transmission originated in the Huanan market. But, on the other hand, three fundamental questions remain that have not been definitively answered. First, where did the virus come from? Second, what was the intermediate animal host? And third, why has the virus genome not been reproduced 100% in any of the coronaviruses found in bats?”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019034/
Basically the point of origin is the market and not from the lab geographically, but how it happened at that market in the first place hasn’t been determined. We may not ever get an answer to it, other than it was a calamity and has caused countless deaths and ongoing medical complexities for the entire world.
No.
It came from the wet market in Huanan.
Probably via bats.
We don’t know.
Communist China will never tell the truth about it, and may not even properly investigate it, so who knows.
Accidentally ordered accidentally on purpose
The live animal market in Wuhan had everything needed to be a perfect breeding ground for creating nasty viruses: You had people from *all over rural China* including places where where bats are endemic going out into the bush to capture a wide range of wild animals. Then these these various different species were hauled across country in close, crowded cages hundreds of miles to the market. Then you mix wild and farmed animals together in close unhygienic conditions. Voila: whatever viruses they have spill back and forth, mutating as they go, and no one cares until the humans get sick.
And that’s where the cases started springing up. Not in workers from some lab, but in people hanging around these live animals collected from all over China. They couldn’t find the exact origin of the virus because the animals who bred it had already been eaten in the ginormous festival that was going down at the time.
Randy Marsh caused it by having sex with a pangolin
Certainly it hasn’t been modified in a lab. It lacks the ‘cut’ sites that the tools we use to modify DNA leave behind.Â
That doesn’t of course exclude them eg finding a strain of interest in nature and breeding it in the lab and accidentally releasing it. But that would be basically impossible to tell apart from it arising in a meat market.
How the f are we supposed to know ?
We don’t know, because there was no identification of patient zero.
Remember, many people who caught the virus had something like a mild cold or even no symptoms. It wasn’t clear i the person treated at the hospital that the hospital staff first noticed was “patient” 5 or patient “50.” So there was no one to ask about what they ate
Well the guy that the UN hired to investigate the lab in Wuhan it was said to originate from was the Head of the lab in Wuhan it was said to originate from. So… you can only really speculate either way.
But usually in this situation if there’s no need to cover up any secrets governments are pretty thorough about saying it isn’t them. So there’s probably at least *something* hiding, even if it isn’t the source of the virus. But again, this is only speculation.
Leaked is generous verbiage.
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All I know is maybe.
AI says the coronavirus was patented in 2014, so one could speculate.
TI says it is a defense mechanism of nature in response to deforestation.
China has only two BSL 4 labs and only one of those focuses on viruses that affect humans.
In one of the largest countries on earth, a novel virus originated in the vicinity of that lab. Unless you’re a big believer in monumental coincidences there’s only one explanation.
I didn’t leak, it was purposely released
Personally I find it so much more likely to be from a market than a lab.
I think the lab thing is a wonderful story catching fire in the US especially
It doesn’t ultimately matter.
What matters is that the U.S. had the weakest response, worldwide, to the virus because our president was too focused on himself instead of the good of the country.
What matters is that he *intentionally* allowed the virus to spread without serious restrictions because he thought people who didn’t vote for him would be more heavily impacted.
What matters is that the PPP “loan” program his Treasury Secretary dreamed up ended up giving millions of dollars to all sorts of businesses with little oversight or regulation – including huge numbers of religious institutions that never paid taxes, but collected tax money.
They could have given PPP funds directly to the workers, but instead they decided to trickle it down from the business owners/wealthy people.
What matters is that this guy thinks we want more of this and wants to be POTUS again next year.
It’s public knowledge that Fauchi was funding a gain of research lab. Probably came from there. But really, who fuckin cares, what are we to do about it now?
To echo other comments in here: we don’t know.
Scientific consensus still leans toward it coming from nature (zoonotic). Intelligence agencies are 50/50 that it was accidentally leaked from a lab. China is a difficult country to conduct fully transparent investigations and unless we find the original patient zero we are unlikely to (ever) know.
It probably came from the wet market. That research institute next door that just so happens to perform gain of function research on these same style of viruses? That’s a coincidence.
I think it was a leak associated with the lab, but not the lab itself.
To set the stage, every epidemiologist in the world has been scared shitless about coronavirii for 20 years. SARS crossed over in 2002 and could have been a pandemic. MERS crosses over every now and then and kills 35% of those infected, which is why Malaysia had a huge PCR infrastructure ready to go in early 2000. Studying coronavirii to be ready for the next one is a wise move.
China is well aware that there are plenty of viruses circulating in the animal population that have pandemic potential. RaTG13 is 96.1% similar to Covid, came from a bat cave in China, and killed three miners. BANAL-52 came from a bat cave in Laos and is 96.8% similar to Covid. My theory is that someone bringing bat samples to the lab just didn’t take proper precautions on the drive, or worst-case diverted some to the wet market.
There is no consensus. It could have easily have naturally occurred. Lab grown/leaked is theoretically possible however unlikely.
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