re: 9/11, I'll have to go back and do some reading, if I'm being honest i havent read anything on the subject in 10 years. It's actually looking rather like I'll be in DC for the 20th anniversary of the attacks, so it wouldn't hurt to refresh.
Part of why I think it's insanely unlikely that a genetically modified virus wasn't accidentally or intentionally released, though, is because that type of research is extremely closely restricted, and extremely hard to do with any degree of control. I've shared this link before but it's worth a re-share, as the sole western scientist to be working in the lab around the time Covid-19 likely began circulating:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...a-lab-scientist-at-wuhan-institute-speaks-out
tl;dr - no one at the lab had been sick around the time transmission must have happened, if anyone WAS doing gain-of-function research then not a soul else at the lab knew about it, and while containment measures at the lab were world class, occasionally mistakes do happen and if Wuhan was the source it was almost certainly in that.
I mean, the other thing, is that it's kind of a natural Occam's Razor - we have no real evidence, or reason to believe, that SARS-Cov-2 was lab-grown, and it probably wouldn't even be on anyone's radar if it wasn't for the fact that there WAS a lab studying coronaviruses in the province the disease was first discovered. SARS-Cov-2 doesn't have to be lab grown for the lab to be the source of the original transmission, and like China needs any excuse to be shady as fuck into any public outside investigation into anything that could even potentially be described as creating the appearance of wrongdoing on their part.![]()
What is extremely closely restricted in the public eye is often surprisingly loose in one way, shape, or form, if you dig into it. It could have been something as simple as a lab tech didn't get enough sleep the night before and chucked a sample in the wrong bin. No safety checks in place, bin goes to the wrong facility, and voila- a deadly virus is on a scrap of whatever material that gets handled carelessly.
Is it likely? Not at all. But neither was someone with a weakened immune system eating a pangolin that just happened to have bat shit on it, with the bat having been infected with just the right mutation of a virus to infect the pangolin and then subsequently the human who ate it, right?
If you asked me where this stupid virus came from, all I can do is speculate, because the only correct answer anyone can give at this point, especially me, is "hell if I know."
