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Comment by ziggyt1
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That's more plausible the engineered virus conspiracies, but it's still far less plausible than zoonosis from infected animals at the market. Firstly, the Wuhan seafood market was primarily a wholesale commercial market. If an infected labworker was the cause, you'd have to explain why the epicenter was a wholesale market as opposed to a far more likely location like mass transit, social gatherings, or the lab itself. Not impossible, but highly unlikely. Secondly, there are two lineages traced back to the market, which would be extremely improbable if the original source was an infected lab-worker.AI Verified (Mar 10, 2026)
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Relevant: the quote directly addresses the statement’s core comparison—lab-related origin versus natural zoonotic spillover—and argues the lab-worker scenario is much less plausible, citing the market-centered epicenter and two lineages traced to the market. That makes a stance on the complete statement clearly determinable. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/comment/o9pny8l/))
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The quote explicitly argues against a lab-related origin: it says an infected lab-worker scenario is "far less plausible than zoonosis from infected animals at the market" and gives the market epicenter and two lineages as reasons against a lab-worker source. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/comment/o9pny8l/))
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The quote is directly about whether the early concentration of cases around the Huanan market is meaningful evidence of origin. In context, the author rejects an alternative where an infected lab worker merely seeded spread there, arguing that the market being the epicenter and the presence of two lineages traced back to the market make market-origin substantially more likely. That strongly signals a determinate stance on the complete statement, even without explicitly mentioning testing bias. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/comment/o9pny8l/))
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The author is arguing for this: they say zoonosis from infected animals at the market is more plausible because "the epicenter was a wholesale market" and because "two lineages [were] traced back to the market," which implies the early clustering reflects the outbreak’s origin there, not merely where investigators happened to test. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/comment/o9pny8l/))
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The Reddit comment URL contains this text verbatim as a contiguous excerpt, attributed on-page to u/ziggyt1, and Reddit’s JSON for comment id o9pny8l gives the same wording plus the omitted final sentence and a created_utc timestamp that corresponds to 2026-03-10 UTC. The stored author, date, and source URL are therefore correct. The submitter-provided source passage appears to misidentify the commenter as JuanofLeiden, but that does not match the actual source. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/comment/o9pny8l/))
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