• baja_blast 10 months ago

    This paper's argues that due to half of the early reported cases being linked to the market and the presence animal DNA showing animals were at the market that this is strong evidence. But this is just circumstantial evidence, there is no evidence that these animals were infected, and still to this day the two closest viruses found in the wild were found thousands of kilometers away and are very distantly related with the last common ancestor being decades ago.

    • n4r9 10 months ago

      Hopefully one of the last few nails in the coffin for the tiresome lab leak hypothesis.

      • ziggyzecat 10 months ago

        Reminds me of those kids who forget their lunch in their backpacks when the summer holiday starts and find it again 6 weeks later.

        • throw-the-towel 10 months ago

          This is off topic, but: are your summer holidays really only 6 weeks long? Which country is that? (In Russia, where I went to school, it's almost always three whole months.)

        • supportengineer 10 months ago

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          • melling 10 months ago

            Why am I always required to believe a conspiracy?