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Occam's razor says it came from the same place as bird flu and SARS -- animal contact.

A lab leak is possible, it can't be disproved. But the fact is that people want it to be true in excess of the evidence we have.

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Lab leak and animal contact can both be true. Lab tech gets infected during animal experiments/sample collecting due to not following procedures and infects others in the lab. They carry infection out into the population, and you're off.

There are many, many more human-animal contacts outside of that lab than inside it. It's literally a billion to one.

A scientist or lab tech specifically working with virus infected bats will spend a lot more time in close contact with virus infected bats than most.

Sure, but we're back to "I want this to be true" at this point. It's possible. But there are a billion rural Chinese who also could have gotten it naturally. Add a 1000x coefficient and you're down to a million to one.

so would someone mining bat poop for fertilizer.

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