• comi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It don’t think it does (and I’ve read it before posting.) but what rebuttal is there, if it’s unprovable theory? Scientists in the lab didn’t have antibodies - pffft, why trust the chinese, WHO haven’t found evidence - one of the researchers has agenda (the other ones don’t count). How do you disprove this?

    • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Fair enough. I guess you're right that there aren't any real "rebuttals" to this argument, because most of it is just stating facts and then saying, "ok based on the combination of all these facts it's not crazy to think [x]." I would hope there is some rebuttal to this because I'd very much like for it to be wrong and buried, but I think pretending it's not worth looking into is dangerous.

      • comi [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The rebuttal would be to find the person first infected in November and trusting antibodies data, but it would be inherently untrustworthy to western audience (cause chinese) and live as conspiracy for the rest of the century :shrug-outta-hecks:

        Which is why the blame game should be focused on government fucking up the response

        • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          I think another rebuttal that I remember hearing a lot about is finding covid not from Wuhan before Wuhan, like the covid-19 samples they found in the waste waters of Brazil, Italy, and Spain from before the first reported case in Wuhan. Do you know if this was ever disproved? Not sure why nobody has really talked about this in the context of the renewed interests in covid's origins, because all that data would point to it not originating in Wuhan at all.

          • comi [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I think it’s generally not treated seriously, cause genetic trees of corona point to singular virus in the november, initial outbreak all had the same exact virus in wuhan, which started spreading and mutating already in february

            • gammison [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              The virus fragments found in water samples are also not necessarily covid-19 or related to it, there are dozens of coronaviruses.