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Originally Posted by Damien
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Well, there are of course two sides to any "lab leak" in that the leak may have been intentional or it might have happened by accident.
It's interesting how this turns around when the facts are yet to be ascertained about something though. When most people were saying (and still with no proof) that it came from bats then to pangolins then spilled over to humans in the wet market, this was the definitive version of what had happened and anyone even remotely suggesting otherwise was no doubt dismissed by some as a conspiracy theorist.
All of a sudden more research and investigation lands more weight on the lab leak theory and maybe this will become the truth.
I daresay if you'd said this maybe 2 1/2 years ago people would be telling you you're a covidiot or something. Like the abuse some people got for questioning the effectiveness of various mitigations such as lockdowns, masks, school closures, distancing, then you'd get people washing their shopping and refusing to touch deliveries for days, etc etc, the whole thing was full of possible responses some of which probably did work and some of which might have made the issues worse or not made any difference. It seems the only thing which really worked is having some immunity, vaccines helped with severing the link between infection and more severe illness in a lot of people, but clearly aren't perfect or weren't meant to be as you can still get and spread covid when you are vaccinated. And who knows how that will end up long term if there are any effects we don't know about in say 10-20 years time?
Shows the importance of keeping open mind and not just spouting the official line without thinking about it.