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CV19 was released from lab?

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Polly02 · 21/04/2020 18:34

This was talked about on Newsnight yesterday. There are top scientists that are sure that Covid 19 was in fact released from a lab (accidentally) and not through the wet markets.

I can't find this anywhere other than hearing it on Newsnight. Has anyone read this anywhere else recently?

Not the previous conspiracy theories.

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pocketem · 21/04/2020 18:37

FFS. Stop spreading Facebook boomer conspiracy theories.

Gluestick80 · 21/04/2020 18:38
Hmm
CarpeVitam · 21/04/2020 18:40

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GindependantWoman · 21/04/2020 18:43

There was an article in the sun that had a click bait title about it being created in a lab but if you read the article it was clear that this is not a theory anyone is taking seriously.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11407987/coronavirus-developed-wuhan-lab-china-greater-us-disease/?utmcampaign=sunmainfacebook&utmmmedium=Social&utmsource=Facebook#Echobox=1587017486

goingoverground · 21/04/2020 19:04

I'm not sure why you are getting such a hard time @Polly02

Yes, I read this last week. I can't remember where but it would have been one of the UK or US broadsheets, news magazines or a scientific/medical journal. I haven't read anything else recently apart from Mumsnet!

It's not implausible to consider whether patient zero was a worker at the virology lab in Wuhan, which has been researching bat coronaviruses and has been criticised for issues with safety recently. It's no less credible a theory than patient zero having been infected at a wet market.

Nobody (credible) is suggesting that the virus was deliberately released or that it was genetically engineered as a bioweapon (we have the genome, we know that isn't true).

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Polly02 · 21/04/2020 19:53

Yes, it was definitely on Newsnight last night. If I can find a link to it on Twitter later I’ll post it.

They said that this is believed by some top scientists to be a man made disease. In Wuhan, very near to the markets, are labs where they’ve been testing Coronaviruses due to SARS etc. It’s believed to have been released by mistake.

I don’t care if people give me a hard time. This is interesting and can be discussed if others have further information.

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Ratoncita · 21/04/2020 19:54
Biscuit
UtterlyUnimaginativeUsername · 21/04/2020 19:56

There may be some truth in the 'released from a lab' theory but as far as I've read, it's not thought to be manmade by anyone with any credibility.

TooSadToSay · 21/04/2020 19:58

If 20 miles is "very near" then perhaps you're on to something?! There's no proof yet and a theory like that would really need some to substantiate it.

DartmoorChef · 21/04/2020 19:59

Let's be honest, there's a good chance China have covered up a lot of things.. This really wouldn't surprise me.

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Polly02 · 21/04/2020 20:01

Sorry, by man made I think they just meant that it had been ‘created’ in a lab for research purposes.

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user764329056 · 21/04/2020 20:01

I agree this is a distinct possibility and we’ll never know the truth as it’s China

itsgettingweird · 21/04/2020 20:01

I read somewhere the other day it had been theorised that a woman working in the lab infected her boyfriend having contracted it by mistake and he then went to the wet market.

The lab is 8 miles from the market.

It's not man made - that's been proved. But that doesn't mean it didn't originate form the lab.

WilmaPantry · 21/04/2020 20:02

Reported.
have a Biscuit

Bagelsandbrie · 21/04/2020 20:02

Only on Mumsnet do people get so irate at the suggestion of this. Credible people have been talking about this for a long time now. I don’t know why people are so surprised to think this is what might have happened.

NoParticularPattern · 21/04/2020 20:04

How have you managed not to have heard of it other than news night? It’s been literally everywhere. See also; Spread by 5G, “ethnic cleansing”, saving states mega bucks on pensions..... etc

Lovemusic33 · 21/04/2020 20:05

I have said this all along (but not to too many people).

I have seen it mentioned several times this past week in the bbc website. I don’t really understand why people don’t believe that it’s a possibility?

The80sweregreat · 21/04/2020 20:05

I did read that corona virus was about in the 1950s.
However it started it's caused havoc.

EdwynCollins · 21/04/2020 20:06

The OP is discussing something that was on Newsnight. It's hardly spreading gossip if it was on TV
It's not like she's spreading what Bob on FB said

itsgettingweird · 21/04/2020 20:07

Exactly love it's just discussing it's a possibility. Why people can't see it's as possible as a bat infecting a pangolin that infected a human that caused a globally pandemic - I don't know?

The biggest issue is that our democratic countries out too much trust in the autocratic ones. The one who has 6 people missing who spoke out ........ Hmm

Thighmageddon · 21/04/2020 20:08

I'm as far from a conspiracy theorist as you could be but I'm now starting to think that this virus was released accidentally by the lab. Reading the data and timelines is quite compelling even though my brain is trying to resist.

Viviennemary · 21/04/2020 20:09

I think it's very possible. If not highly likely.

HappyHammy · 21/04/2020 20:09

How did it spread from a wet market. How did it jump from an animal to a human if its airborne.

Bagelsandbrie · 21/04/2020 20:09

www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-52318539

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Polly02 · 21/04/2020 20:10

This theory has nothing to do with previous conspiracy theories.

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