24 Mar 2025

Covid-19: lab leak accident? - NOT amateur radio

Five years after the whole world suffered the effects of Covid-19, there are still debates over its origins. 

Increasingly it appears this was an accidental lab-leak in China. People do not want to say this in case it offends China. In truth, we can never be sure.

UPDATE 2110z:  This really does look like an accident.  They may have been working on a bio weapon, but the virus that escaped (if indeed it did) was not the strongest that could have been created.

3 comments:

John AE5X said...

"Accidental" lol

edgeways said...

There have been accidental leaks from labs in the past https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents
I certainly remember the leak of smallpox from a lab in Birmingham UK in 1978 before smallpox was eradicated as a illness. (The virus most remain in labs around the world still).

Roger G3XBM said...

Many thanks for that link. I had no idea there had been so many leaks! You cannot be too careful.