stravinskian Member since Feb 24th 2003 12698 posts
Wed Mar-01-23 12:05 PM
54. "FBI is still very much in the minority among federal agencies on this," In response to In response to 53
and whether I was confident in the FBI as an agency or not, they're pretty much the last agency in the world I'd go to with a question about biology. They're welcome to put biology aside and focus on whether and how to arrest Donald Trump.
Everyone who pays any attention to viruses or epidemics has been saying for decades that it was only a matter of time before one of the many animal coronavirus strains would spread to humans and cause a major pandemic. There's no reason at all to be surprised that it happened in 2019. Maybe a lab leak was involved, maybe not, but regardless, labs need to study these things. The lab hysteria makes about as much sense as vaccine denialism.