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Why is lab manipulation off the table? WIV openly admits that they were manipulating the viruses - there is even a proposal from Peter Daszak for funding for WIV to perform Gain of Function experiments. This type of experiment is common place - look at Ralph Baric's papers. Furthermore, those distributions from Trevor Bedford are horrendously wrong even for 2/2020, they should have alerted you that lab escape was a credible theory.

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"Not going to say it's aliens...but it's aliens!" ;)

Interesting points on the lack of (expected) evidence on animal->human transmission. Sometimes, in controversial situations, there's a way of looking at something that nobody seems to think about (or care to point out) that shifts the perception, of those who consider the new viewpoint seriously, away from one or more narratives that are otherwise very popular.

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