So the Covid outbreak happened in Wuhan, a city with the world’s largest research programme on bat-borne corona-viruses yet we are expected no discount that it leaked from their lab.
A every increasing number of scientists who have examined the virus have claimed it possesses properties that could not have evolved naturally yet we are still expected to ignore that it may have leaked from a lab.
William of Ockham is rolling in his grave just now (obscure reference to Occam’s razor theory)
The lab leak theory best satisfies Occam. It always has done. To err is human: scientists and technicians make mistakes just like the rest of us. An accidental lab leak requires no forethought, conspiracy or malice, just a single individual making a mistake.
Quite why there has been such vehement political and scientific opposition to this idea escapes me.
The modification of the proteins in the attachment spikes to make the virus more infectious is not necessarily means it was designed as a chemical weapon . Nothing sinister in that; it is a common technique to aid study of the development and spread of the virus. However, it does mean that you have to make sure that it stays in the laboratory and, if it does escape, you must warn the world at once. The Chinese government seem to be guilty of breaching both duties of care yet why is there still no fingers pointing at this (likely) truth? What does China hold over us to protect it so? Or perhaps the question is who was funding such research that it had to be done out of their own country? Mmmmm?
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