Here's an important point:
One of the supposedly compelling pieces of evidence is that the outbreak - or at least the emergence - of Covid-19 began in Wuhan when the idea is that it came from bats that dwell in caves in Yunnan Province. But that's like 100s of kilometres away! How is it possible that a coronavirus found in bats travelled 100s of kilometres!!!?!?!? How is it even possible?!?!
The theory then is that Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists to Yunnan, extracted the coronavirus from the bats, went back to Wuhan and let the virus escape because of shoddy protocols and then kept quiet about it because of "face" (*yawn*!)...
Except, why were they down in Yunnan in the first place? Well, because that is where SARS Cov1 was thought to have come from. So is that where SARS Cov1 emerged? No, it emerged in Guandong Province. But that's like 100s of kilometres away! How is it possible that a coronavirus found in bats travelled 100s of kilometres!!!?!?!? How is it even possible?!?!
Could it be that Guandong and Wuhan are both big cities and transport hubs, and that vast amounts of travellers and produce from all over China pass through there every day?
No! I want to ruminate instead on important questions of the concept of face. That's what scientists do after all...
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