COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Exactly my viewpoint on this also. I don’t really trust China, nor their numbers at this point. But, a lot of people are making out how the center is 5 miles from a wet market. Now, I have never been there, but I’m reasonable sure that there are a lot of areas in China that are 5 miles away from a wet market. So, I’m not entirely sure as the what this is trying to prove.

Also, in reference to an earlier post about hitting the Midwest, it burned through the major population centers that are more dense and had more exposure in the beginning. It’s now working over to more rural settings as most rounds of colds and flus do. Personal proximity also has a huge factor in its spread. So, not only in the meat packing areas is this blowing up due to the closeness in work conditions and a hundred other faults of the industry, but the fact wages are so low and they hire groups of people that live tighter together in ethnic groups (did I say that PC enough) that not only can they catch it at work, but it’s probably spreading around that tighter knit community where multiple families live together. On the good side though it’s going to force the meat packing industry at least in the short term to clean up their act.

Personally, I'd say the proximity of the lab to wet markets is irrelevant. What matters is that the lab is quite close to where the alleged origins occurred. In a country as large as China, that's relatively close, and while it may be coincidental, it's certainly valid to raise questions about that proximity. It's not like these labs are all over China.

I don't know either way, but I know enough not to trust China on anything Covid related. Their numbers are a universal joke. About as believable as North Korea not having a single case.

So I'm not trusting anything China has to say about their origins. They prevented and still are stalling when it comes to allowing international inspectors to investigate this. Until that happens, conspiracy theories are fair game.