The great Wuhan Lab breakout- that did not take place
Sometimes the answer is too awkward to consider.
We are always asking whether the virus broke out of the lab. This is highly unlikely. Security protocols in Labs are strict, the samples most of the time small, maybe even frozen and always in controlled environments. The lab technicians are aware of the risks and quite alert concerning their own health.
The truth is: The virus never had to break out. It was already out there. But it was attracted to the COVID center and as a consequence to the city of Wuhan. And no, I am not a lunatic:
Everytime a COVID incidence happens in China the institute is called for analysis. This creates a connection between the point of outbreak and Wuhan. Delegates visiting, samples being transported, researchers shutteling. The virus does not need to escape a vial. It just has to travel piggyback.
Now imagine: Samples in dry ice have to be transported to Wuhan. To save costs it is send by van. As there ist enough space left the driver decides to add some local delicacies to the freight and sell it at the Wuhan market. The rest is history. Very simple, very embarrasing as it could have been avoided easily.
It’s not that this exact story is the truth or even likely to be the truth. It’s more to foster your fantasy to get to the bottom of the problem: Without strictly isolating the source of the infection the point zero of COVID outbreak would always been somewhere where the virus could get into contact to a large amount of people. And the pure existence of the institute created a vehicle for the virus to travel from obscurity to a large city. Why should somebody cover up a lab accident? These are facts of life — even in China. But an avoidable transport out of sheer idiocy….
