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mvlipwig • yesterday at 3:30 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

It's difficult to say for sure, but the consensus is leaning towards zoonotic origin from a bat or pangolin in a wet market. (I'm not very well researched on this topic and don't have any formal background in it, so hedge accordingly)


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fsckboy • yesterday at 4:21 AM

there is zero evidence for zoonotic origin, and messages have been found and made public showing that the public proponents of a zoonotic origin hypothesis were in private saying "lab leak".

https://archive.ph/WTsga

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SV_BubbleTime • yesterday at 4:23 AM

>but the consensus is leaning towards zoonotic origin from a bat or pangolin in a wet market

I literally had to check the date on this post.

Does anyone else remember when claiming it was a lab in China that leaked was “racist”… but “they eat tainted exotic animals at wet markets” was “the consensus”?

Wild times!

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