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Reddit commenter participating in r/science discussions about COVID-19 origins.
None of the lab employees were hospitalized, and studying it in a lab would have required observing it in the wild and securing a sample without it having already caused an outbreak. If you think about it that way, it is no longer a plausible scenario.
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jdbolick, 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 The quote is directly about the lab-origin claim: in context, it replies to a user describing a Wuhan lab infection-and-spread scenario and argues that this scenario is "no longer a plausible scenario," which makes opposition to the statement substantially more likely than the alternatives. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/comment/o9m5bh2/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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AI Verified The author is arguing against the lab-incident origin claim: in context they are replying to a proposed accidental infection at the Wuhan lab and say that scenario is "no longer a plausible scenario," adding that none of the lab employees were hospitalized and that obtaining such a sample without an earlier outbreak "makes absolutely no sense." That strongly implies preference for a non-lab origin over the statement. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/comment/o9m5bh2/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago

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AI Verified The supplied Reddit comment URL loads and shows user jdbolick posting the exact quoted text, and the JSON endpoint for that same comment confirms the comment id, author "jdbolick," full body text, permalink, and created_utc 1773116441; that timestamp corresponds to 2026-03-10 UTC, so the stored author, content, date, and source URL are consistent. ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/1rpkoz1/comment/o9m5bh2/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1h ago
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