Virology SARS-CoV-2 origin discussion: is it artificial or natural one?

Posted by: @morphism

Hello, everyone! I'm just wondering about the ongoing discussion - "is SARC-CoV-2 artificial virus or natural?" Does anybody track last publications about the topic? Where to start? I mean it will be great to have some literature review, where I can go step-by-step and reveal the whole picture for myself...Any ideas?

I watch Alexander Panchin's channel, where he deals with various popular science topics, including about Covid

@nanochimik47 Thanks!

It seems to me that now it is very difficult to find objective and impartial statements on this topic 

@_brauer_ Why do you think so?

@morphism It seems to me that now attempts to establish the origin of the coronavirus may be perceived as politically motivated. Roughly speaking, if someone as a result claims that covid is an artificial virus, it will be perceived as accusations against any state or organization; and if they say that the virus is of natural origin, then not everyone will believe it, because there are already a sufficient number of conspiracy theories that are successfully spreading thanks to the Internet. This is my very subjective opinion

In general, all these anti-epidemic measures were also strongly politicized ...

@argentum unfortunately.. It's hard to imagine today's world without politics.

@morphism It is difficult at this stage, but I hope in the future its role will decrease.

@argentum yes, I also hope that sooner or later science and common sense will prevail

@argentum Politics? Now way))

@_brauer_ i hope too

We're very optimistic people as I can see 🤣