"Dose" Equiis XX

DOUBLE ZOONOTIC EVOLUTION? WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

On January 31, 2020, Dr. Kristian Andersen, after examining the genome for a novel coronavirus, had claimed to Dr. Anthony Fauci that it looked like it had been created in a laboratory, a thought he shared with his colleagues, but in June 2021, after he had written his zoonotic evolution report in March 2020, which was exclusively a "theoretical" piece in a three page note in a medical journal, not a full blown report, he told the New York Times that, based upon a codon usage that had appeared to have been adapted to human physiology that he had apparently later discovered to appear in some other viruses, he had originally thought the virus came from a laboratory, but his application of the scientific method had refuted his earlier hypothesis that ignored the ophidian, or snake codon usage bias, the predominant indicator, which was aberrant from nature, because there are no reptile or snake coronaviruses.

At that time, Dr. Andersen claimed to be leaning towards a zoonotic and natural evolution, but, like Dr. Fauci, keeping an open mind. However, by September he had joined 121 other scientists to theorize that not just a fluke zoonosis had occurred, but a double zoonotic evolution involving two separate strains that just happened to arise in close proximity and collide at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market. Consider the odds of that double rare event, and, again, he based his conclusions wholly on theory, but added at the end that the failure to ever locate the zoonotic source would essentially lead to more pandemics because a walking, breathing and free biohazard laboratory was still in business, but, somehow that never occurred, and now not even the Intelligence Community or the President appears any more alarmed than with a possible invasion by aliens that most believe exist in the vast universe, and they can't all come in peace, one, except the most naive and ignorant, would think.

So, while Dr. Andersen, Dr. Lindsey C. Marr and Dr. John Lednicky are considering this argument, this is a chance for some amatuer sleuths to revisit the origins of a novel coronavirus.