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Squirrel_Inner t1_jaerwpa wrote

Reply to comment by jjblarg in Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins by asdf3

I think the evidence strongly supports the lab leak theory and that the response to the virus was reasonable, considering how dangerous it was. We still don’t understand the full effects of long covid or how it’s mutations could continue to be a problem.

All those things may not have been as effective as hoped and I think vaccine mandates are authoritarian and do more harm than good. But I got the vax, despite concerns over it.

Those concerns aren’t based on any conspiracy, just the fact that the US has a piss-poor history of allowing companies to use known toxic materials in their products. I got it anyway because I felt the benefits to all outweighed my personal risk.

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Squirrel_Inner t1_jadl3dk wrote

Reply to comment by adsfew in Little-known scientific team behind new assessment on covid-19 origins by asdf3

Actually, it was the entire sequence except for the RBD, according to virologist Bob Garry:

“I lined n-CoV” — so, the new coronavirus — “with the 96 percent bat Coronavirus, sequenced at the WIV. Except for the RBD” — and that means receptor-binding domain — “the S proteins are essentially identical at the amino-acid level, while all but the perfect insertion of 12 nucleotides, that adds the furin site, as to is over its whole length, essentially identical. I really can’t think of a plausible natural scenario where you get from the bat virus or one very similar to it to [SARS-CoV-2] where you insert exactly 4 amino acids 12 nucleotide[s] that all have to be added at the exact same time to gain this function…. I just can’t figure out how this gets accomplished in nature.”

Taken from this article: https://theintercept.com/2022/05/06/deconstructed-lab-leak-covid-katherine-eban/

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