Lab Leak - How the media poo-pooh'ed it.
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(Dont know the answer but wondering what others think.)
What, if anything, would have changed if it were definite known that the COVID was from a lab and escaped vs. wild animal transmission?
For my opinion, I dont see really any changes to the response. The vast majority of the response was to the disease and it would nt have mattered the origin.
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@taiwan_girl said in Lab Leak - How the media poo-pooh'ed it.:
What, if anything, would have changed if it were definite known that the COVID was from a lab
Perhaps having access to the genome and mounting a faster, one might even say "trans-warp speed, development of the vaccine.
And perhaps, maintaining some shred of trust in the media and government.
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But, I am not sure any of that would have changed the response.
(Having say that, yes, it will be good when we finally find out the exact cause of the COVID)
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@jon-nyc said in Lab Leak - How the media poo-pooh'ed it.:
It’s kind of sad but if someone were to ask me off the top of my head to name world-changing Chinese inventions my answer would be gunpowder and Covid.
I would struggle to name a third, though that is no doubt a function of my own ignorance.
Paper and the compass. Silk. The wheel barrow as well I believe. I also seem to think at least a few metallurgical processes.
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The "official academic" take is still firmly a zoonotic origin, aligned with the Proximal Origins paper, which calls a lab leak "not plausible". But we also have the intelligence services and their reports, which are more equivocal and in some cases leaning towards a leak.