13479817, You have an exaggerated sense of what "gain of function" research
Posted by stravinskian, Wed Mar-01-23 06:35 PM
is even capable of.
The fact that we can't resolve this question is precisely because the differences between sars-cov-2 and other unquestionably natural coronaviruses are minor and completely consistent with normal evolutionary development. Yes, this virus would have escaped the caves within a couple years regardless of anything the mad scientists might have done.
The deeper you dip into the "scientists are tinkering with viruses" meme the deeper you get into assertions that we know as incontrovertible facts to be untrue.
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