What is?

[ThxOne Premium Member]

I never said it was most likely to have jumped from a bat. We have no way to measure which is more likely, but it strikes me that it isn't highly unlikely to have jumped from a bat. I don't get you "anti-vax" guys. One post is about how the vax was unnecessary, the virus wasn't that bad, the stats were pumped up, etc. Now it's the only way a virus this strong could have happened was in a lab. What lab did previous pandemics escape from? It's a natural process for viruses to mutate in more infectious variants; the virus in question is still doing that.

Sure we do... lets use statistics. I am sure that statistics would show that the virus came from a lab.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

The lab leak is very much the most likely scenario...

Maybe, I'd like to how you determined that? I don't know how you could possibly measure it. Clearly we're dealing with a virus that easily jumps from species to species.

 

[djdilliodon!]

Opinion isn't fact, but I would hope that people's opinions are shaped by facts. Unfortunately, it's my opinion that most people's opinions are not shaped by facts.

And if they aren’t shaped by fact but more belief, they are indeed entitled to that. It’s like those who say men can get pregnant. You can believe it all you want, you can even talk about it all you want in the appropriate places (like here on the thunder dome).

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Who was it that made the joke... Oh Daniel Tosh. "It's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" lol, good stuff.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

And if they aren’t shaped by fact but more belief, they are indeed entitled to that. It’s like those who say men can get pregnant. You can believe it all you want, you can even talk about it all you want in the appropriate places (like here on the thunder dome).

Touche'

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

By the way, I had this topic covered before only to be met with NO, YOU MUST BACK UP YOUR OPINION WITH FACTS.

But here it goes again...

Opinion -

a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Sure we do... lets use statistics. I am sure that statistics would show that the virus came from a lab.

If there were such statistics.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

If there were such statistics.

We can make our own... all we need is various information and some research and then we can ignore all of it and just go with our feelings for the answer.

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

Maybe, I'd like to how you determined that? I don't know how you could possibly measure it. Clearly we're dealing with a virus that easily jumps from species to species.

You got a lab working on a virus...then that same virus is found nearby...it's more likely than panglin getting cozy with a bat at a wet market...

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Funny how you try to educate us on what a troll is and here you are TROLLING. Verbatim this and verbatim that. lol

Yeah, as soon as I called him a troll he acts like everyone else responding to him is. Ugh

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

"It is possible that COVID-19 leaked from a laboratory, the former head of China's public health body has said.

"You can always suspect anything. That's science," George Gao, the former director of China's Center for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention, said in a BBC interview.

"Don't rule out anything," he added.

As head of the Chinese CDC, Gao was involved in the early investigations into COVID-19, until he stepped down from his post in July 2022.

The origins of the COVID-19 virus are still being investigated."

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

If memory serves me wasn't it reported that one of the scientist at the Wuhan lab visited the near by market in the Hubei province of China?

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

If memory serves me wasn't it reported that one of the scientist at the Wuhan lab visited the near by market in the Hubei province of China?

Wuhan is in Hubei, so it’s entirely possible.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Wuhan is in Hubei, so it’s entirely possible.

Yeah, we all know this.