So, just read about something interesting, thought I'd write a little thread about it...Do you guys happen to remember when the CDC shut down Fort Detrick in August 2019? Funny thing about that...https://t.co/pCyMnGdhl8 pic.twitter.com/Bp7B6Nq2T7— a lucid lunatic (@aLucidLunatic) April 1, 2020
But seriously now that we've learned that COVID may have originated outside China this thread keeps coming back to me.
Something I dove into (and couldn't find much on) is the possibility that you could identify that these methods were used when genome sequencing. Seems like it would be incredibly difficult but is it impossible to spot?
Also these seems more geared for adding on to an existing pathogen, yeah? Like covid-19 couldn't be made "from the ground up", there'd be some backbone they'd add to?
I swear remember reading a peer-reviewed study months ago about the unlikeliness of directed evolution for covid but I can't find it now. I'm not trying to assert that creating something in a lab is impossible, rather that the hurdles you'd have to clear to do it and make basically everyone think it's natural leads to an Occam's razor situation (for me at least)
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Something I dove into (and couldn't find much on) is the possibility that you could identify that these methods were used when genome sequencing. Seems like it would be incredibly difficult but is it impossible to spot?
Also these seems more geared for adding on to an existing pathogen, yeah? Like covid-19 couldn't be made "from the ground up", there'd be some backbone they'd add to?
I swear remember reading a peer-reviewed study months ago about the unlikeliness of directed evolution for covid but I can't find it now. I'm not trying to assert that creating something in a lab is impossible, rather that the hurdles you'd have to clear to do it and make basically everyone think it's natural leads to an Occam's razor situation (for me at least)
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Good info, thanks. I like thinking this over, it's fun