<div dir="auto">This basically. As much as I disagree with most of what Rafal says, that EXACT modification was proposed for a study AT THAT FACILITY IN WUHAN, and a year later the virus with that same modification appears a few miles from that facility? Come on, you'd have to be crazy not to question that. And we trust the CCP to give us the origin story? </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 17, 2021, 7:26 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 2:57 PM Dave S via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 7:14 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><p class="MsoNormal">In about February 2020 the theory was being floated that covid-19 was an engineered virus created in a research lab in China. I commented at the time in this forum that it sounded like a plausible theory to me. It was at that time considered a disreputable theory.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Yesterday the British parliament was told that a lab leak is the most likely origin of covid. This is an example of a theory which has grown from ridicule to plausibility to general (even if not universal) acceptance in a span of less than two years. Theories usually take a human generation to grow to acceptance.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Engineered virus" and "leaked from a lab" are two entirely different things. It's still very unlikely that covid was man made. It's quite plausible that it was caught in the wild and was being studied at Wuhan and was accidentally released. See <a href="https://www.virology.ws/2021/09/09/gain-of-function-explained/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.virology.ws/2021/09/09/gain-of-function-explained/</a> for more info.</div><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Without doubt it was engineered. The furin cleavage site didn't splice itself into the Wuhan virus genome, and the unusual arginine doublet codons didn't show up by magic, they were put in as a part of a research project.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal </div></div></div>
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