A group of internationally known virologists have a video podcast. They have nearly 1000 casts and have interviewed virologists worldwide. See This Week in Virology (https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/)
They have said that they do not believe it would be possible, given the current state of research, to engineer Sars-Cov2
I'm more likely to take the opinion of world experts in Virology than the Director of the FBI. Your opinion may differ.
Also, it does not necessarily have to be "engineered" to have been released. Both statements could be somewhat true.
Not that I buy either explanation yet. I have kind of accepted we will never definitively know COVID-19's source, and (though I understand the need to protect clandestine information) these announcements without evidence are not changing that sentiment.
about virology?
You do understand you are just making shit up?
Yes, we don't know how to do this, nor does anyone. There's only a few hundred virologists in this tier and they all know each other and what their labs can do.
If anyone ever does claim it's man made I ask them why, if it is man made, does it have synonymous mutations?
The few times it happened (early in the pandemic), not one of them knew what a synonymous mutation was.
If someone runs a lab, and they have Ebola or other virus in their fridges, and it leaks due to poor handling practice, that doesn't mean Ebola was engineered...
So it's possible to agree with both the opinions of the virologists-podcasters AND of the director of the FBI, isn't it?
That doesnt meant it was necessarily deliberately released. But maybe there was some extrordinary negligence involved that could make the Chinese government look bad.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15729081/france-warned-wuhan-l...
Laboratories study what's already available in animals...
>>> "The FBI has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident,"
That's the actual quote from the FBI.
News article from 2021:
>>>FRANCE warned that the Wuhan lab linked to the Covid outbreak could be turned into a "biological arsenal" by the Chinese military four years before the pandemic, it is reported.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15729081/france-warned-wuhan-l...
let me ask you, would it be fair to say that the virologists who are most knowledgeable about engineering virii come by this knowledge by conducting such experiments themselves?
wasn't there discussion in Fauci's emails of suspicions that this virus was engineered? and discussions of the value of such gain of function research? isn't there room for disagreement among experts as to the efficacy of such experimental paths weighed against our ability to keep them safely in the lab?
do researchers often find their work and careers stymied by process of getting funding?
would funding for these avid gene splicers possibly be put in jeopardy were politicians and the public to become scared of the experiments they do? didn't the discussion in Fauci's emails reflect that the govt had restricted such experiments?
Wouldn't that give them a bias in favor of downplaying such a possibility? Would a person be wrong for suspecting a massive bias?