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		UnFleshedOne on Nov 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Next ‘Lab Leak’ Most pandemics throughout history started when there were no labs at all, so they can be ignored in this calculation.

ModernMech on Nov 23, 2021 [–]

Why? You’d need to know the independent probability of a natural origin pandemic to compute this. Surely to figure this out you would need to look at history to make this calculation. How else would you estimate that value?

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