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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (1974)	8/31/2021 9:28:39 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5933

He's working off obsolete information with regards to his 6 points. 1. It's a novel human coronavirus which means it's new. The furin cleavage site is found on the pangolin coronavirus which can transmit to humans. 2. It didn't have to start in a wet market, but it spread there early on. Since the virus doesn't exhibit symptoms, customers could've purchased animals and developed the disease 1-2 weeks before they became ill. 3. Covid has been found in blood samples well before that date. They reported Covid pneumonia back to the beginning of November per the Hubei province hospital system. 4. They will probably find a match for Covid in an animal host. They found four close matches at up to 99% similarity in Malaysian pangolins. 5, The problem with the furin cleavage site being genetically inserted is that they found that it deletes sections of the genome. It has to be done through transmission from one animal host to a human. 6. The problem with the GOF argument is that there is no known lab result that's a close match for COVID. The workbench for the SARS coronavirus is even more distant match than the ones they found in the wild. It would probably take decades to create a match given the large number of RNA strands and the permutations for each. The biggest hurdle for the theory is the statistical improbability of creating an exact copy of the novel coronavirus which is required because it mutates so slowly and specifically to the spike protein when it circulates among humans. Anything created in the lab and released is very unlikely to be this virus. You have a better chance in the rainforest or wet markets with the genetic diversity resulting in many different coronaviruses.