Sunday, February 27, 2022

Wuhan Market Theory

I still need to read the full report, but some additional papers leading credence to the Wuhan market theory of Covid origin. 

Look: I'm totally open to the theory. Still strange that of the 39,000 wet markets in China, it just happens that the new covid strain came from a zoonotic jump in a market 2 miles from the Institute of Virology. Statisticians will be needed to find out the odds of that happening...

Other elements to consider:

a) from what I can tell, this data suggests the virus spread happened at the market. Does that mean it originated from the market? Is it equally possible an employee from the Virology institute spread to someone in his/her apartment building who was a vendor at the market? Is this so implausible?

b) The fact that the type of animals that "could've" transmitted COVID does lend credence to the wet market theory. But some evidence of animals with the Covid strain would be nice. Still no smoking gun. 

c) Why is the case that animals that "could've spread" COVID a stronger possibility than a human vendor who could've had contact/a job at the virus institute?

d) Last, consider if the data had found the opposite conclusion: would we have read/had access to it?

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