So many diseases have spilled over from animals into humans throughout our existence. Measles. Smallpox. HIV. Influenza. The black death. Just about any epidemic or pandemic in history, as well as a host of endemic diseases, originated in animals.
Why, when yet another pandemic virus spilled over into humans from animals, must people invent conspiracies that the virus was invented in a lab? We still don’t have the technology to create a virus to order, and we have a long way to go before we reach that level of knowledge. Yet people love these conspiracies.
I’m reminded of something that Agent Smith in the Matrix said. “Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program.” Maybe the reason people love conspiracies so much is that life has become too easy.
Conspiracy?
No one said they created them - they modified them.
The emails expose that they offered to modify 700 strains. They were specifically removing the markers that would show they were modified, in order to make them appear natural.
"In November 2016, virologist David Evans traveled to Geneva for a meeting of a World Health Organization committee on smallpox research. The deadly virus had been declared eradicated 36 years earlier; the only known live samples of smallpox were in the custody of the United States and Russian governments.
Evans, though, had a striking announcement: Months before the meeting, he and a colleague had created a close relative of smallpox virus, effectively from scratch, at their laboratory in Canada. In a subsequent report, the WHO wrote that the team’s method “did not require exceptional biochemical knowledge or skills, significant funds, or significant time.”
Evans disagrees with that characterization: The process “takes a tremendous amount of technical skill,” he told Undark. But certain technologies did make the experiment easier. In particular, Evans and his colleague were able to simply order long stretches of the virus’s DNA in the mail, from GeneArt, a subsidiary of Thermo Fisher Scientific."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/experts-debate-the-risks-of-made-to-order-dna/
virus was invented in a lab? We still don’t have the technology to create a virus to order,
Notice the strawman, about the entire virus being created in a lab?
That's not what happened, that's not what these emails are describing.
IBTZ