Michael Lipkin
Feb 27, 2021

Some good points Robert but just glossing over others will not do.

1. The location of the outbreak is a blinder. The next animal borne pandemic could occur anywhere in the world yet it occurs next to the Wuhan labs?

2. Type of virus. Bat SARS-like coronavirus. Again the next animal borne pandemic could come from a number of different virus types and yet it is exactly the type that is a speciality of the WIV?

You also dismiss lab escapes as 'extremely rare' presumably because you have done no research - they are common. There have been a number of leaks of SARS from labs doing work on it including from a BSL4 lab in Taiwan. This was due to a staff member not following protocol - people do that.

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