I sort of lost faith in the article's willingness to take lab leak seriously when they threw this map up[0] and inexplicably did not label where the Wuhan Institute of Virology is on it. For reference[1].
It's not at all far-fetched to think the virus piggybacked 10 miles before finding a nice home for itself at a wet market, after which it went gangbusters and infected lots of people. Obviously the virus proliferated in the market, but that doesn't necessarily make the market the origin. The two bottom 'Weibo data' maps from the first link show clusters on both sides of the rivers and also very close to the lab.
That's just the most obvious bit of bias, but I'm confident that article isn't being as fair-handed as it's pretending to be.
[0] https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...
[1] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Huanan+Seafood+Market,+Fazha...
It's not at all far-fetched to think the virus piggybacked 10 miles before finding a nice home for itself at a wet market, after which it went gangbusters and infected lots of people. Obviously the virus proliferated in the market, but that doesn't necessarily make the market the origin. The two bottom 'Weibo data' maps from the first link show clusters on both sides of the rivers and also very close to the lab.
That's just the most obvious bit of bias, but I'm confident that article isn't being as fair-handed as it's pretending to be.