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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (50 children)

This is stupid. There is just as much evidence it came from Fort Detrick.

For the record I don't think it came from either.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It came from the wild. They, along with Germany and other labs, were researching Sars related wild vectors and the possibility of natural selection causing a new outbreak.

I find it reasonable to believe a biosafety incident at the Wuhan lab infected several of the lab researchers and that led to the pandemic.

But that's the extent of where things go. Conspiracies about bioweapons are idiotic.

[–] Chetzemoka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I thought this as well (massive safety events being a pretty normal thing, after all) until last year when the wet market swab data was finally analyzed. (After apparently being leaked? Accidentally? Accidentally on purpose?)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

"Both early lineages of SARS-CoV-2 were geographically associated with the market"

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