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wtf
This keeps getting interesting. Although the articles puts it between human contact and lab creation. But from what I've gathered scientists say that it likely comes from the decease was created through the transmition between a bat and pangolin or something. Seems unlikely to me that they'd do it like that in a lab, so the the meat black market hypothesis still stays strong in my mind.
But we'll have to see what comes out of this I guess.
Noone's talking about lab creation, but rather the fact the research institution in question specializes in virology. So they would go into the field(/bat caves in this case) to collect virus samples to bring back to the lab in Wuhan to study (as that's literally their job).
Mistakes happen, and a researcher could have simply been infected by one of these collected samples before going onto infect other people.
In that case, I don't see how that's the striking condemnation of China that Western media makes the lab theory out to be. The virus is still of entirely natural origin, and it was spread inadvertently. Maybe in that case you could make the argument that the lab and/or the workers responsible should bear responsibility and that it was negligence as opposed to a freak accident, but usually when Westerners talk about the lab theory they think "China was researching COVID specifically to destroy the world REEEEE"
Well, I just read this article by Daily Mail, so we'll have to see what the research says when it's published.