I Found The Source of the Coronavirus
Why Hacker News recommends it
Frequently posted in early COVID origin and lab-leak threads as a compelling early case, though other commenters cite rebuttals and note it is speculative.
What it is
A 2020 video by laowhy86 arguing that the coronavirus did not originate outside China, pointing to evidence about the Wuhan institute and a possible patient zero. It cites sources in the description.
Recommended by 6 HN commenters across 5 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec june11 · 2020-12 · on “Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it”
I wish more people would watch this [0], might not be true but damn does it seem convincing. Seems pretty obvious that it was lab originated, even if it isn't manufactured. [0] [this video]
Strong rec phyalow · 2021-05 · on “The case for a leak of a virus engineered in a Wuhan lab”
Exactly. I am not into conspiracies, but I highly recommend this video from early 2020 which details how one of the Chinese researchers at WIV, Huang Yan Ling disappeared in late 2019 and how subsequently her internet presence was memory holed [1] by Chinese censors (all verifiable with the links in the video description and wayback). [this video] This to me is one of the smoking guns. [1] - [LINK]
Recommends light_cone · 2020-04 · on “China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest”
The most credible evidence has been gathered and presented in a youtube video [this video] . The youtuber was a long time china immigrant before being forced to move abroad.
Recommends abc-xyz · 2020-04 · on “China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted pages suggest”
Her name was Huang Yan Ling (黄燕玲) for anyone who might be interested in learning more about the potential patient 0. The evidence is very compelling and this video does a good job at presenting it: [this video]
Recommends Tarlox · 2020-05 · on “Wuhan lab did research on bat viruses, but no evidence of accidental release”
[this video] The sources listed in the description of this video seem somewhat reliable. While I'm not completely sold on the lab being the source I think the odds that it was are still pretty high for me.
Recommends Izkata · 2023-02 · on “Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says”
> Patient zero was a virologist that seems to have been censored off the Chinese internet afterwards, and I can't find the links anymore :-/ 10-minute video that includes that plus a few other things: [this video]
Cites gnusty_gnurc · 2020-04 · on “The coronavirus wasn’t made in a lab. A genetic analysis shows it’s from nature”
I think this video got posted yesterday, but at first glance, it didn't seem all that unreasonable to think the institute somehow originated it: [this video]
Cites throw3727 · 2020-04 · on “Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar”
Climate change is not new, just three hundreds years ago there was little ice age. Global travel is new. As for source of the virus: [this video]