the lab leak theory is wild lol

Why does it need to be intentional?

That's a pretty specific, and not necessarily accurate theory.

It is VERY contagious. The most likely scenario(assuming it broke out of the lab) is that it accidentally left on somebody's lab coat and spread that way to the Wuhan wet market and beyond.

The “accidental leak” theory was always possible, but the evidence for it was purely circumstantial and virtually nonexistent for a long time, which is why it was initially discounted.

After a year of searching for an animal source and emergence of some new information, it has become somewhat more plausible, but still highly speculative and rooted in circumstantial evidence at best.

Problem is that we can’t trust Chinese exculpatory evidence, and are unlikely to get anything definitive so ultimately we still don’t know and anyone proclaiming certainty is probably ideologically biased.

That’s definitely true, nobody can be absolved of poor handling via finger pointing.

The lab leak theory also wants you to think that scientists that lived in Wuhon......didn't get the virus outside of the lab. The lab folks were supposed to have gotten COVID in November....but no one has said how long COVID was already in Wuhon before it was reported. The scientist didn't live in the lab...they went home every night...out into the population of Wuhon and then came back into work every morning. So if Wuhon was so infected by November that the entire town was closed down...and it was.....why couldn't scientists have picked it up at home and brought it into the lab...instead of the other way around?? The lab theory has more questions than answers.......and is only being pushed forward by Rumpers who are dying to say "told ya so"......when they don't have a clue and never will.

I believe there is a very rational argument for a lab leak that doesn't require much of what you propose.

Effectively, it was an accident and China (along with other Eastern cultures), has a twisted sense of pride: lying about it's origin was much preferred over admitting a mistake.

Could virologists have been investigating a bio-weapon? Possibly. However, the Wuhan lab gets funding from many non-Chinese sources. Virus manipulation is happening in multiple labs around the world, and it's been happening for decades... not to engineer badness, but to learn and be prepared for what may happen in nature.

The international resistance to declaring it as "lab originated" stemmed from a desire to counter the anti-information campaigns of right-wing nationalists, not only in the US, but in a number of Western nations.

When first you practice to deceive, what a tangled web you weave.

More likely than not, China completely underestimated how crazy this thing is. While they witnessed how weirdly contagious it is, they did NOT witness the mutation abilities, not until it started mutating in the west.

If this was a lab leak and China lied about it, they gained no strategic advantage. The best vaccinces have come from the West.

So, the right wing narrative that this was manufactured is pretty weak.
But the contrasting narrative that it is entirely from nature also fails to account for the fact that bats are not easily infected by Covid-19.

Even crazy people get the story partially correct sometimes.

The lab leak theory is 100% logical.

Does the lab leak theory rely on it being an intentional leak?

This seems like one branch of a Chinese conspiracy theory based on the virus coming from a lab, but what about other permutations, like politicians and scientists in other countries getting paid to help it spread, funding anti-mask movements, fake cures, not to mention those investing in vaccine manufacturers.

Fauci, Biden, Trump, they all could be a part of it, as could doctors, nurses, computer and modem manufacturs seeking to profit from work at home.

"Seriously", this thing could be REALLY REALLY big.

Or not.

Not really -- the lab itself studied Coronavirus. It's really common sense. Some facts which make it almost impossible the lab wasn't involved.

Wuhan Institute of Virology

In 2005, a group including researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology published research into the origin of the SARS coronavirus, finding that China's horseshoe bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.[12] Continuing this work over a period of years, researchers from the institute sampled thousands of horseshoe bats in locations across China, isolating over 300 bat coronavirus sequences.[13]

In 2015, an international team including two scientists from the institute published successful research on whether a bat coronavirus could be made to infect HeLa. The team engineered a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus that had been adapted to grow in mice and mimic human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.[11][14]

It would be an insane coincidence if there was not a leek.

I just can't agree with the lab leak theory. Since it was found that the Novel Coronavirus was around long before 2020, who knows, it could have started in another country as a weak variant and unbeknownst to the person(s) who contracted it, spread it to others eventually sparking that contagious outbreak that was seen in China.

The theory is that they were studying the virus, and it got out due to poor safety practices.

{@noahb] yes ic does sound far fetched and i agree would make a good fantasy film

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At this point, a lab leak is one of the possibilities. Accidents can and do happen.

The conspiracy theorists, however, claim that this is a manufactured virus. As in, genetically enhanced, then purposely released by the Chinese. That's bat shit crazy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/us-intelligence-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-origin/2021/06/15/2fc2425e-ca24-11eb-afd0-9726f7ec0ba6_story.html

Frightening thoughts.

Maybe WW3 won't be waged with a fw countries throwing nuclear bombs at one another, but with an attack by just a couple of people positive with a delay virus; and we won't even know that we're at war, or with whom.

But, the Chinese government is so ethical and virtuous. I cant even fathom they would be up to such shenanigans. 😂

All they had to do was fuck around with something they didn’t understand, infect someone who subsequently went out and unwittingly spread it. What’s complicated about that. Here we have a nation with one foot in the Stone Age and the other striving to be a global superpower, who frankly are good at stealing other people’s ideas then selling it back to us with slave labour as its source of production. We’ve asked for this, now we are paying the price for dealing with ants!

If it’s a biological weapon,it’s a real shitty one