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Reddit commenter participating in r/science discussions about COVID-19 origins evidence.
I am 100% agnostic to the idea of a lab-origin possibility. It’s just that so much of the evidence points towards zoonotic origins. I’m willing to Occam’s razor it here. People eat animals in high vector circumstances, sometimes those odds play out. It’s inevitable in high traffic situations and/or low-sanitary conditions.
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Kurovi_dev, comment on "Recent pandemic viruses jumped to humans without prior adaptation," Reddit r/science, March 10, 2026.
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COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than natural zoonotic spillover
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AI Verified Relevant: the quote directly addresses the same origin question and says the author is open to a lab-origin possibility but believes the evidence points to zoonotic origins, making a stance on the complete statement determinable. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/recent_pandemic_viruses_jumped_to_humans_without/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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AI Verified Although the author says they are "100% agnostic" to lab origin as a possibility, they immediately say "so much of the evidence points towards zoonotic origins" and invoke Occam’s razor plus routine animal-to-human spillover as the better explanation. That makes them most likely opposed to the claim that COVID-19 originated from a lab-related incident rather than zoonotic spillover. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/recent_pandemic_viruses_jumped_to_humans_without/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago

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AI Verified Verified. The Reddit thread HTML shows this exact two-paragraph text under the username Kurovi_dev, and the Reddit thread JSON identifies the same comment as id o9m3b2g by author Kurovi_dev with created_utc 1773115544, which corresponds to 2026-03-10 UTC. The stored thread URL contains the quote, and the stored author/date are consistent with the source. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/comment/o9m3b2g/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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