I have no idea how the fuck to read that graph but what does the department of energy have to do with determining the source? It is way out of their mandate.
It's somewhat important to note that "Lab Leak" and the more difficult to prove "bioweapon" are often conflated. It's understandable to think that someone studying the virus inadvertently brought their work home with them. Making the claim that it was intentional or engineered with ill intent (ha!) is still in the realm of conspiracy, IMO.
The market that this would have spread from was sanitized in like the first week of January 2020, so no proof will come from there; any thoughts that it was a lab leak are not balanced with studies of the market.
People were dying of *something* before the outbreak, the Wuhan scientists were turning over every stone to find the source of the virus. So if it was a "lab leak," it's still a virus that existed in caves and was probably responsible for several deaths in the last few months of 2019âso it seems likely that any "lab leak" OR "wet market infection" was just weeks ahead of the natural event (although that natural event would not have originated in Wuhan).
I have no idea how the fuck to read that graph but what does the department of energy have to do with determining the source? It is way out of their mandate.
I recall that early evidence re. the cleavage (probably posted it here and got backlash), and was bewildered about the "faith" in covid being natural...when there wasn't the full evidence that it was. ..or that a lab origin was completely debunked.
a couple of quick thoughts
iirc matt ridley pointed out very early that there was research shared with unc and wiv
similar work on similar strain of sars
he and alina chan have written a book and were on sam harris podcast speaking about this situation
if possible people should listen to it
and no this podcast isn't an exercise in bashing wiv or unc/us govt cooking up some bio weapon
they're simply and methodically looking at the available evidence and give likely scenarios
after listening it does seem more likely that it was an accidental leak from wiv
as for sachs, i'd like to see the evidence he has or what he has been privy to
could it be possible he has something? maybe
usually whenever he speaks, within three sentences you'll hear something akin to the "usa done it"
it's automatic...
I recall that early evidence re. the cleavage (probably posted it here and got backlash), and was bewildered about the "faith" in covid being natural...when there wasn't the full evidence that it was. ..or that a lab origin was completely debunked.
Great that it seems COVID is falling into the rearview mirror, but still about 3,000 deaths a week, or over 150,000 a year, which hasn't moved much over the past 10 months.
Compare that to 10,000-50,000 typical annual deaths for regular flu.
Great that it seems COVID is falling into the rearview mirror, but still about 3,000 deaths a week, or over 150,000 a year, which hasn't moved much over the past 10 months.
Compare that to 10,000-50,000 typical annual deaths for regular flu.
