• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Everyone conveniently forgetting that a Spanish university found traces of covid in Spanish sewage samples from Feb 2019.

    Saying that COVID must have started in Wuhan because of the virology lab makes about as much sense as saying that oncology labs cause cancer because so much cancer "starts" there.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah yeah what the fuck happened with that? There was also some articles saying it might have been in Italy? I haven't bothered to look at it in the last year+

        • Ursus_Hexagonus [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Reuters wrote

          The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy in September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought.

          [...]

          The WHO said it would contact the paper’s authors “to discuss and arrange for further analyses of available samples and verification of the neutralization results”.

          But I can't find any follow-up articles about how that went

          • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            signaling that it might have spread beyond China earlier than thought.

            Lol imagine drawing this conclusion from that fact. Like discovering a printing press that predates Gutenberg and concluding that printing must have spread from Europe earlier than thought.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        pretty obviously it was a natural virus and probably did originate from china as it's from a family of viruses native to east asia and the initial large spread started in China. maybe there were traces of it in Europe before it spread big ut that doesn't really mean anything