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While the arguments are presented well I'm somewhat hesitant to dismiss 'chance'. The reason being that all steps that are argued to be unlikely by the author are also, as far as I can tell, necessary steps for a novel (human) coronavirus to exist. Which is something that experts seem to consider something that is bound to happen eventually (even the author doesn't question why Chinese scientists where trying to identify dangerous coronaviruses). As such you cannot simply dismiss things for being unlikely without also taking into account how exceedingly unlikely it is for a coronavirus to jump from bats to humans in the first place.

Then again I'm not too well versed on this subject, although I do have confidence in my knowledge on probability.