Evidence for the current coronavirus' natural origins

pitabread said:

The coronavirus did not escape from a lab. Here's how we know. | Live Science

One persistent myth is that this virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was made by scientists and escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began.

A new analysis of SARS-CoV-2 may finally put that latter idea to bed. A group of researchers compared the genome of this novel coronavirus with the seven other coronaviruses known to infect humans: SARS, MERS and SARS-CoV-2, which can cause severe disease; along with HKU1, NL63, OC43 and 229E, which typically cause just mild symptoms, the researchers wrote March 17 in the journal Natural Medicine.

"Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," they write in the journal article. ​

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It would be silly to think that the Chinese would use germ warfare against their own people or that they were somehow only careless enough to allow a fairly less deadly virus to escape while all the much more virulent viruses and bacterial agents they must have access to would remain under control. Most people have assumed the virus was due to the unsanitary conditions in the Chinese markets. If that is true or not has not been substantiated. Even before any testing, Occam's razor would suggest that the virus from China is a natural mutation.

The only warfare being inflicted in this crisis is self-inflicted via cigarette smoking.

grasping the after wind said:

It would be silly to think that the Chinese would use germ warfare against their own people or that they were somehow only careless enough to allow a fairly less deadly virus to escape while all the much more virulent viruses and bacterial agents they must have access to would remain under control. Most people have assumed the virus was due to the unsanitary conditions in the Chinese markets. If that is true or not has not been substantiated. Even before any testing, Occam's razor would suggest that the virus from China is a natural mutation.

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It started in bats, most likely.

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pitabread said:

This is the science forum. Please post the political stuff to the politics forum, thanks.

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Thanks, I did not notice that....

World: "There's no way we can shut everything down in order to lower emissions, slow climate change and protect the environment".

Mother Nature: "Here's a virus. Practice".