![]() ![]() Covid-19 would be, at the bare minimum, the direct result of our failure to heed prior warnings about the possibility of such an accident. If, on the other hand, SARS2 emerged from a lab, then the lesson is the opposite. Indeed, we would be forced to redouble our efforts before SARS3 catches us off-guard. The straightforward lesson of the pandemic would be to simply face up to the clear risk of studying dangerous, novel infectious agents in the lab. How else could we discover what we’re up against? After all, if SARS2 came from nature, then the biologists who were furiously studying its close relatives were, if anything, too slow and too cautious to protect us. It could even be argued, as it has been by many researchers, that we should enhance these infectious agents to discover their vulnerabilities so that next time, we’ll know just what to do. Our best recourse, then, is clearly to study potential zoonotic pathogens in the lab. And next time, it could all too easily be worse. If SARS2 - the virus that causes Covid-19 - came from nature then, logically, it’s only a matter of time before something like this happens again. How could anyone think that lab origin is a good thing? Well, consider each of the two proposed scenarios: ![]() That presentation will, of course, seem counterintuitive. As the public has become ever more aware of in the last few weeks, the concept of a lab leak is, based on the actual evidence, the most compelling hypothesis to explain the origin of SARS-CoV2. More from this author The day American justice diedįor now, though, allow me to be the bearer of good news, hidden among all of this scrambling and obfuscation. Having lost the battle to push a natural Covid-19 origin story into the public consciousness, and now thoroughly embarrassed by a grassroots effort to surface the truth, the press, the scientific establishment, governmental regulators, and the titanic social media platforms of Silicon Valley are now desperately seeking a new narrative that will restore business as usual. That’s progress of a sort, even if the admission lags well behind the evidence, and the motivation behind this grudging acknowledgement is political rather than scientific. After months of telling us that SARS-CoV2 most likely came to humans from a natural source, the establishment media is finally waking up to the plausibility of a lab leak. So if deadly zoonotic pandemics are accidents just waiting for contact between infected wildlife and people to happen, why are they so rare? To answer that question, we must put to one side the tropes and niceties that have so far constrained mainstream discussion on the matter. ![]()
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