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For the sake of humanity don't pressure the Chinese too much over origins of COVID-19 : Comments
By Rodney Crisp, published 27/7/2021Important moral and political issues must first be addressed before a meaningful technical investigation can be carried out with the full and unequivocal cooperation of the host country.
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1. China, despite years of the WHO telling them to cut it out, allowed the virus to develop by bringing multiple different animal species together in wet markets.
2. China, through poor standards, allowed the virus to escape from a laboratory (admittedly, almost every "highly secure" virus laboratory in the world has "lost" samples at some point).
In both cases, China is at fault. In the second case, perhaps slightly less because the virologist community should know better and deliberately chose to do this kind of research in a country that has poor standards.