[exDemMom]

Lack of a chain of mutations in the Sars-2, some researchers say, points to a genetically engineered coronavirus produced in a lab. Unlike previous new pathogens, Sars-2 has appeared ready for human cells without requiring mutation.

Many diseases can be passed directly from bats to humans. You don't need an intermediate host to catch rabies, Ebola, Marburg, histoplasmosis, etc., from bats, so why would you need an intermediate to catch a coronavirus from a bat?

Also, what does that even mean, "Lack of a chain of mutations"? Of course we don't know the exact mutations that coronaviruses undergo in bats, because we don't have samples from every infected bat. Anyway, whatever that statement is supposed to mean, nothing about it suggests an engineered virus. Evidence of engineering would be contained in the virus nucleic acid sequences. If, for example, a coronavirus contained a gene from a completely different virus, that would be pretty obvious evidence of genetic engineering. Random mutations between different populations of coronaviruses only show that the process of evolution is still going on, as we expect.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting.

What do you make of the allegation that the bats involved live 1500 kilometers away?

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Wow

In very other transfer from bats to humans, they identified the chain linking the two. For covid, they haven’t been able to, and this have zero evidence it made the jump on its own. Are you on the payroll of China like Joe Biden?