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Originally Posted by imperiouskitten
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Still the transposition of an entire key functional unit (the SPIKE PROTEIN on which viral propagation 100% depends) from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 inside a bat strikes me as extremely unlikely. We are talking about a virus totally switching from one "entry" protein to another in a single generation. It is vanishingly unlikely.
Meanwhile, it would be trivial to achieve in a laboratory (like that one across the street.) and is kind of an obvious experiment. I could literally make you something similar with access. A twelve-year-old could, with the right technical manuals and gear.
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HIV was originally not a human virus, for what it’s worth. Was that one made in a lab?
I’m not discounting your claim, I think it’s even likely. It’s just if the Chinese are that evil, that’s really really bad. I give people the benefit of the doubt, even my enemies. But yeah, I don’t doubt a research lab let a virus out by accident. It could be a bat or whatever else virus as the story goes though. Gonna have to wait and see I guess, since I have neither an electron microscope nor a fellowship in epidemiology