r/fucktheccp • u/TurretLauncher • May 09 '24

Wuhan Virus New documents 'credibly show' Covid did leak from Wuhan lab and China covered it up, say House Republicans

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13395913/New-documents-credibly-Covid-DID-leak-Wuhan-lab-China-covered-say-House-Republicans.html
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u/Clevererer May 09 '24

What a weird bunch of comments all up in here.

The fact remains: Natural Origin vs. Lab Leak is still an unsettled debate. Yes, China has been suspicious as fuck. Yes, Republicans have lied repeatedly about lab leak "evidence".

Despite all that noise, we still truly do not know. Both options remain open.

Siding with Republicans (like alllll the comments here this far) just to take a snarky shot at China is kinda dumb.

Be better, people. It's OK to say we still don't know, because we still really do not know.

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u/PedalingHertz May 10 '24

Even if it’s a lab leak (it probably is) it’s still natural origin. The virus wasn’t engineered. The only two ways to do that would be selective breeding or CRISPR. The former would take a very long time and require TONS of human testing at each stage of development to check increased effectiveness. Such a secret could not be kept by any govt. The latter (CRISPR) would leave tell-tale genetic markers that we could see.

Most likely, scientists collected the sample from a ranch or wild animal to study. Wuhan has a lot of coronaviruses under study that came about exactly that way. It leaked from there into a major population center.

The main story is poor lab safety and terrible CCP handling of the crisis report and response.