re: #277 KGxvi

Ugh, Huffington Post has an article up about “theories” that Covid-19 “escaped” from a lab. Not as a bioweapon, but as a virus being studied. And of course, there’s no evidence offered for the theories… and you got to get 4 or 5 paragraphs in before the mention that most experts dismiss the lab theory completely.

I don’t like this either, but a podcast I listen to (sinica) and like for its fairness wtr to China interviewed a Chinese specialist who said it could not be ruled out.

ETA: I forgot to say that he called it unlikely, but not out of the realm of possibility.