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In Reply to: Who knows maybe it originated on the West Coast and we sent it to China posted by Goober58 on April 9, 2020 at 14:32:13:
There's many efforts underway to build the virus' family tree by tracing mutations. Yesterday, the other Dave (from Cleveland) posted a link to a free NYT article that gave a nice summary of some of the research. If that's interesting, there's more to be found via Google.
So far, everything they've found strengthens the prevailing theory that the virus originated in Chinese horseshoe bats and jumped over to humans near Wuhan through an uncertain path. They're also helping to confirm the suspected timeline of virus spread out of Wuhan and around the West.
In time, I'm very confident the history of its genome will disprove the conspiracy theories. But I'm sure that the people promoting the conspiracy theories (including the Chinese government) will ignore that and keep on promoting them. Conspiracy theories only take root in people who didn't want to know or accept the truth in the first place.
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Follow Ups
- The people researching the genome are well on their way to disproving that - Dave_K 04/10/2008:12:46 04/10/20 (8)
- RE: The people researching the genome are well on their way to disproving that - LouGiants 19:08:50 04/11/20 (0)
- Thanks! - Goober58 12:50:23 04/10/20 (6)
- RE: "What conspiracy theories do you think need to be disproved?" - Krav Maga 15:39:04 04/10/20 (5)
- That's rich and the days typical - Goober58 16:09:42 04/10/20 (4)
- "That's rich and the days typical" Your words could not be more apropos. - Krav Maga 17:40:34 04/10/20 (3)
- The best defense is a strong offense response is very overused in politics these days. - Goober58 18:59:50 04/10/20 (2)
- RE: The best defense is a strong offense response is very overused in politics these days. - Krav Maga 19:57:47 04/10/20 (1)
- Thanks! - Goober58 22:10:55 04/10/20 (0)