Leaked Emails Show Wuhan Labs Using Lao Bat Virus That Is Nearly Identical to COVID-19

[Elderberry]

Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 12/9/2021

Banal-52, a Lao bat virus, shares 96.8 percent of its genome with Sars-Cov-2.

Newly leaked emails from the U.S. government indicate that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was studying coronaviruses found in bats from Laos in the months before the pandemic.

This revelation indicates that a lab-leak origin for SARS-Cov-2 virus (the pathogen causing COVID-19) is a strong possibility.

    In September, scientists discovered Banal-52, a coronavirus found in Lao bats, which shares 96.8 percent of its genome with Sars-Cov-2.

    The striking similarity between the two coronaviruses led scientists to speculate that the Lao bat strain could have somehow given rise to Sars-Cov-2.

    But there was one glaring problem: how could a virus originating in bats living in Laos spark an outbreak in Wuhan over 1000 miles away?

    That puzzle might now have been solved, as leaked emails between EcoHealth Alliance and US government funders reveal viral samples from Lao bats were being collected and sent for study in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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[mountaineer]

Does anyone know whether it's possible at all for humans - in the normal course of things - to get a flu virus from a bat in the first place, or does an outbreak necessarily have to be engineered by Communist lab workers?

[Kamaji]

Does anyone know whether it's possible at all for humans - in the normal course of things - to get a flu virus from a bat in the first place, or does an outbreak necessarily have to be engineered by Communist lab workers?

It can happen, but it takes multiple tries before the virus mutates to the point where it can effectively infect humans.  With the first SARS virus, there was an evidentiary trail showing that result - multiple version of the virus that got progressively better at infecting humans. 

There is no such evidentiary trail for Covid-19.  For all anyone can tell, it was as close to an immaculate infection as is possible - unless it was engineered in wuhan for gain of function.