New Scientist, The hunt for patient zero: Where did the coronavirus outbreak start?

originally posted by: smurfy

This is what quite a few people have had thoughts for a time, one such person Mark Oliver, who works for The Guardian, posted a story on that subject which was well laid out with thorough information in detail.

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That was a really good link. Thanks for sharing it.

Item #3 was particularly interesting to me, since I hadn't heard of it before:

That’s not exactly out of the ordinary — but the description in the job posting is a little disturbing. It says that they were particularly interested in molecular mechanisms that let coronavirus lie dormant for a long time without symptoms.

I've always suspected that that particular trait was the one that was deliberately added to the disease. (It's also the only reason it became a pandemic.)