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In the comment I replied to where you suggested a disease center could release a new bioweapon.

A disease center would study known diseases. A disease center could only release a new bioweapon if it was secretly a bioweapons lab — there’s your conspiracy theory. Which you’re putting forward on the internet.



> A disease center would study known diseases.

Disease centers often study known _pathogens_ in lab conditions/through methods that absolutely can lead to said pathogens mutating into a previously unknown strain.

You're overly focusing on _bioweapon_ as though all pathogens that developed via human influence were due to maliciousness.


> You're overly focusing on _bioweapon_

The poster I’m responding to was specifically talking about bioweapons, so I’m not “overly focusing”, just coherently following the topic.


No, actually, the comment you responded to specifically said "You don't need it to be a bioweapons lab to have a virus accidentally leak out."

It's just you (and one other poster I think?) that read "it's possible this virus has an [accidental] artificial origin" and jumped straight to "these people are accusing China of making bioweapons".




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