Studies link COVID-19 to wildlife sales at Chinese market, find alternative scenarios extremely unlikely
www.sciencedaily.com
Analyses based on locations and viral sequencing of early COVID-19 cases indicate the pandemic started in Huanan market in Wuhan, China, with live animals being sold at the market as the likely source. Genomic studies revealed that the SARS-Cov-2 virus jumped into humans on at two separate occasions.

All up not the worst outcome.

Best outcome would have been that it was already spreading globally (as suggested by wastewater analysis) and China just detected it first.

Next best would be that it was brought into the wet market, but by a person.

Slightly worse is if it jumped from animals at the market, as that vindicates the racists. <— we are here

Worse than that is accidental lab leak of natural virus.

Worse still is accidental lab leak of manufactured virus.

Worst of all is intentional release of manufactured virus.

  • Sincerity [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    There is a paper that says this - I work in the field (PhD) and the paper is complete dogshit. Very bad interpretation with evidently no knowledge of bioinformatics or metagenomics which has caused a river of shit ever since.

    Edit: It's actually been so long since I had to read the original COVID in Italy sewage that I think it might even just have been a single PCR positive in a lab where they were already testing positive samples - which was clearly contam./bad lab practice - at best.