Comment by onethought | Hacker News Reader

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Exactly. The lab leak theory is a story of cherry picking evidence to match your conclusion.

Why was the wet market on the other side of the city the only identified outbreak site if it came from the lab? There were/are many markets on the other side of the river that would be much more relevant to residents living and working on that side.

People looking up flu symptoms in the middle of winter is not evidence of anything abnormal.

I don’t understand the intellectual effort going into the lab leak theory… it feels like some kind of state run propaganda piece, I assume to just keep a negative view on China in people’s minds. It’s crazy given that whatever the truth there is no consequence… literally an inconsequential endeavour

>> it feels like some kind of state run propaganda piece, I assume to just keep a negative view on China in people’s minds.

China is a fantastic country filled with amazing people, culture, history and so on. It is quite possible to recognise a country's positive characteristics while questioning specific actions by some of the people within that country. This is as true of China as it is of any other country.

Trying to better under the origins of a global pandemic is not an inconsequential endeavor.

That’s not what people are doing, they are trying to prove a lab leak theory, else all this effort would be in “how’d it get to that wet market” if you can’t answer that, then you do not have a logical chain to its true origin lab leak or not.

How have you justified deciding that the only important question for anyone to answer is why it was in the wet market? What's the case for that?

It wasn't exclusively in the wet market, it was in lots of places.

Because right now that is the origin point. But we also know it was there for quite some time before it hopped to humans. It wasn't in a lot of places... it was just at the wet market as far as we know, we have no earlier outbreaks than that.

> I assume to just keep a negative view on China in people’s minds.

America was involved with that lab, too. It should really be the rest of the world with a negative view of America and China.

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