If I have a virus, how do I tell if its natural or man made? Unless someone has gone out of their way to add an indicator won't all viruses just be the same?
It's not like you can leave finger prints or a "made in China" sticker on a virus right?
It's not like you can leave finger prints or a "made in China" sticker on a virus right?
If it was full-on engineered, as in splicing RNA from different viruses together (or other such direct modifications), there would actually be fingerprints based around the method of splicing used.
Artificial selective pressure (introducing a virus to different hosts and selecting for desired random mutations) would look natural.
The information the process of evolution imparts on the genes/features of an organism differs based on whether it was natural or artificial.
* highly transmissible
* not very deadly
* similar to know viruses in the proposed natural sources
A lot of people seem to really want covid to be an engineered thing. But I'm not seeing any evidence to support that. And I would highly support action against China so I am bias in favour of this theory...