A simpler explanation is that Trump just surrounded himself with sycophants and incompetents who just said the things he wanted to hear. Even if those things were not supported by any credible evidence.
Where is the credible evidence that it came from wildlife? Bats are not known to live around the city of Wuhan, and the closest wild relative to SARS-CoV-2 was found hundreds of kilometers away, near China's southern border. And also in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which performed gain-of-function research on coronaviruses.
The core argument in favor of crossover from wildlife is that scientists don't think many of the mutations in the virus's genome make sense as engineered changes. That is a straigh
Bats are not known to live around the city of Wuhan, and the closest wild relative to SARS-CoV-2 was found hundreds of kilometers away, near China's southern border.
How would anyone ever travel hundreds of kilometers? Horses just don't go that far do they?
Is your theory is that someone went to a fairly remote cave in Yunnan, caught the virus from bats there, traveled to Wuhan, and only started infecting other people after arriving in Wuhan?
If only there were some way to substantiate this kind of theory. For example, if the Chinese government would let independent scientists see the actual records of early cases. But they did not [nytimes.com], instead pressuring the WHO investigators to simply echo what the CCP said. That suggests some kind of remaining cover-up by the
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Where is the credible evidence that it came from wildlife? Bats are not known to live around the city of Wuhan, and the closest wild relative to SARS-CoV-2 was found hundreds of kilometers away, near China's southern border. And also in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which performed gain-of-function research on coronaviruses.
The core argument in favor of crossover from wildlife is that scientists don't think many of the mutations in the virus's genome make sense as engineered changes. That is a straigh
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Bats are not known to live around the city of Wuhan, and the closest wild relative to SARS-CoV-2 was found hundreds of kilometers away, near China's southern border.
How would anyone ever travel hundreds of kilometers? Horses just don't go that far do they?
Though it seems strange that 50k people have died from it in California [worldometers.info] if it can't travel very far.
And California is 10,000 kilometers away from China. [google.com]
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Is your theory is that someone went to a fairly remote cave in Yunnan, caught the virus from bats there, traveled to Wuhan, and only started infecting other people after arriving in Wuhan?
If only there were some way to substantiate this kind of theory. For example, if the Chinese government would let independent scientists see the actual records of early cases. But they did not [nytimes.com], instead pressuring the WHO investigators to simply echo what the CCP said. That suggests some kind of remaining cover-up by the
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