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mk · 1944 days ago · link · · parent · post: State Department cables warned of safety issues at Wuhan lab studying bat coronaviruses
Dollars to donuts, that's what happened. There are so many crumbs on that trail. I was just getting started here: It doesn't make sense that it is from pangolin-CoV when it's far more similar to the bat virus RaTG13. Occam's Razor says they were inserting the ACE2 binding sequence and testing for gain-of-function in experiments similar to many before. It was done in a BSL2 lab when it should have been BSL4, and someone caught it.“The idea that is was just a totally natural occurrence is circumstantial. The evidence it leaked from the lab is circumstantial. Right now, the ledger on the side of it leaking from the lab is packed with bullet points and there’s almost nothing on the other side,” the official said.