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@shapesalad The answer is that there's never been any testing of animals sold at the market or from the supply chain ever released. China managed to fool the media on this. What they released was testing of frozen meat products that were left behind in freezers and stray cats and dogs wandering through the vacant market.
You can't completely rule it out but none of the actual published research supports the lab origin. The key paper is this analysis of the early cases showing they cluster around the market, while the lab is on the other side of the city. And within the market, positive samples are correlated with the section of the market where they sold animals.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1…
Scientists have also done modeling of the early evolution of the virus and found that there were two different versions of SARS-CoV-2 in the beginning that couldn't have evolved from each other, meaning it probably spilled over from animals to humans multiple times.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1…
As far as the idea that we can't trust the experts, scientists are all covering up the truth, this is just the same as every other conspiracy theory. Climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers and people who think ivermectin cures COVID all say the same thing.
But you have to ask how likely it is that there's a conspiracy successfully maintained for three years between the CCP, the US government and scientists and journalists around the world.
- For those downvoting, feel free to point out a single thing I said here that was wrong...yuekit
- I think people want to believe it came from the lab because it plays into certain narratives (about China or about not trusting the government).yuekit
- But the evidence just doesn't support it right now. If that changes I'll adjust my opinion accordingly :)yuekit
- the clock stopped ticking dont u get it... but its right two times a day .... lol.. thats about the puniest metapher i have ever read...neverscared