Do you think covid was man made?

[linebaugh]

?

 

[WashYourHands]

Perhaps

 

[sufi]

how are we supposed to know? It wasnt me anyway

 

[Leo]

not me either.

 

[Leo]

I was visiting family that weekend.

 

[version]

I'm leaning towards it being man-modified atm, yeah. I don't really know though.

 

[yyaldrin]

probably yes, i mean it comes from wuhan and they literally have a covid factory there so yeh.

 

[john eden]

Even I think it's plausible that it could be man made.

I've seen nothing to prove that it is to my satisfaction though.

Zoonosis is also possible.

 

[john eden]

The former theory leads to a heating up of hostility towards China. Which ain't nothing but a heart-breaker / friend only to the undertaker.

 

[version]

The former theory leads to a heating up of hostility towards China. Which ain't nothing but a heart-breaker / friend only to the undertaker.

It's complicated by western money and scientists being tied to the lab too though.

 

[wild greens]

Where is the lab leak option

Man-made to me implies conscious decision as opposed to human error

That said-

The Re-Emergence of H1N1 Influenza Virus in 1977: A Cautionary Tale for Estimating Divergence Times Using Biologically Unrealistic Sampling Dates

In 1977, H1N1 influenza A virus reappeared after a 20-year absence. Genetic analysis indicated that this strain was missing decades of nucleotide sequence evolution, suggesting an accidental release of a frozen laboratory strain into the general population. Recently, this strain and its...

journals.plos.org

 

[Mr. Tea]

What's the supposed motive for someone doing so?

 

[IdleRich]

how are we supposed to know? It wasnt me anyway

At school, if the teacher said "who did a shit on my desk?" or whatever and some random kid piped up, without being accused "It weren't me!" then it pretty much always turned out to be that kid. Just saying like.

 

[Leo]

What's the supposed motive for someone doing so?

here we go...

 

[Leo]

At school, if the teacher said "who did a shit on my desk?" or whatever and some random kid piped up, without being accused "It weren't me!" then it pretty much always turned out to be that kid. Just saying like.

like the old childhood farting saying: "he who smelt it, dealt it".

 

[version]

What's the supposed motive for someone doing so?

The same motive behind any science, I'd have thought. The lab exists so that viruses can be studied. It's not that big a stretch to consider that they were working on this one and it accidentally got out.

 

[IdleRich]

It seems to me that there need to be three options....

1. Not man-made
2. Man-made by accident (or at least released by accident)
3. Man-made and released deliberately,

 

[version]

It seems to me that there need to be three options....

1. Not man-made
2. Man-made by accident (or at least released by accident)
3. Man-made and released deliberately,

Option 2's the most convincing, imo. I currently think the most plausible explanation's that they were studying the virus, modified it as part of their research and it accidentally got out.

 

[Mr. Tea]

At school, if the teacher said "who did a shit on my desk?" or whatever and some random kid piped up, without being accused "It weren't me!" then it pretty much always turned out to be that kid. Just saying like.

The fact that you went to a school where this was a routine occurrence explains a lot, I feel.

 

[Leo]

I haven't been paying attention, do people still believe the wet market theory?