One big one is that the first big spreading event happened at a wet market where people and animals are in close proximity. You could check densely peopled places within some proximity of the lab to figure out how surprising it is that it happened in a wet market, but certainly animal spillover is much more likely where there are animals.
Edit: also it’s honestly kind of a bad sign that you aren’t aware of evidence that tends against your favored explanation, since that mostly happens during motivated reasoning.
I’m avoiding that as I don’t understand the data provenance/cover-up potential.
The point of this post is to process just the “clean” data—stuff that interested parties such as WIV, Ecohealth and WHO could not have changed or affected.
Of course others should try to look into that and work out what’s going on.
One big one is that the first big spreading event happened at a wet market where people and animals are in close proximity. You could check densely peopled places within some proximity of the lab to figure out how surprising it is that it happened in a wet market, but certainly animal spillover is much more likely where there are animals.
Edit: also it’s honestly kind of a bad sign that you aren’t aware of evidence that tends against your favored explanation, since that mostly happens during motivated reasoning.
I’m avoiding that as I don’t understand the data provenance/cover-up potential.
The point of this post is to process just the “clean” data—stuff that interested parties such as WIV, Ecohealth and WHO could not have changed or affected.
Of course others should try to look into that and work out what’s going on.