• 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.