Not parsing words here, but I haven’t read anything that says the virus was created in a lab or elsewhere. As I understand blood and tissue samples of infected bats were being studied for the creation of a vaccine at this institute and poor procedures lead to contamination and eventually escape into the populous. This sounds like a strawman to me.
“We’re all Epidemiologists now”.
Created in a lab? Pay attention to the verbiage used, like always.
This stuff is popularly viewed as from a movie - gene splicing and putting different things or pieces together.
That isn’t the whole story. One of the techniques is called “Gain of Function”. They will purposefully infect hundreds of animals and the virus is passed back and forth. Then they look for mutations. They take the interesting mutations out of that sequence and start the process anew. Rinse lather repeat. Sort of like breeding viruses or virus husbandry.
It very well might not have been “created” in a lab, but that may be a distinction without a difference.
Yep, this was a lab...just not a weapons-grade lab. It was a plain regular deal, and these people didn’t have to go and anything special, the bat-stuff was already in its natural form.
On China’s part, the bio-weapon folks may be furious that all this business made them look stupid when it was probably not their fault.
Why deny it? It is like you are in the kitchen and your kid walks in and says I didn’t write on the wall in crayon before you even go in their room. So far only a few sites have said it was a bioweapon in development. Sounds more like “Blame Guilt” and “Guilt Paranoia” to me. That and the PLA has stated Bioweapon war was their planned method of depopulating the US to allow Chinese takeover.
https://youtu.be/Gdd7dtDaYmM
Epoch Times video on source of Corona virus. It was engineered. Spliced together with gene insertions to make it able to enter the human body. It was not just a naturally occurring bat virus that got out of the lab
Exactly. No one is saying it was engineered except conspiracy cooks.