Golden6please forgive me a lengthy response about the engineered...

Golden6

please forgive me a lengthy response about the engineered SARS-CoV-2 theory.

people believe things mostly based on what they know about a subject, often lacking, and other influences, generally from a different field, but which supports their view.

Geocentricism is an old example. Back then, people didn't have the knowledge to know that the earth wasn't the centre of the universe, but they did have a a scriptural source that implied it was. Copernicus didn't even publish his results because he knew he would be strung up the nearest tree by the staunch Dutch Reformists. It took Galileo one hundred years later to spill the beans. Once Heliocentrism took hold, it didn't take long for an associated belief to fall too, the flat earth.

Holocaust deniers? They're plentiful. Mostly neo-Nazis, and accepting the Holocaust as factual would seem to make them appear as devils to begin with. Easier to reject it so that they don't have to explain it to the modern world.

If I asked, why will the sun come up tomorrow, many would say today, because it did yesterday, not to mention for a few billion years previously. But this in fact is no proper reason for the sun to come up tomorrow. Believe it or not, one of these days it won't, and all the billions of previous occasions will prove useless in maintaining any new dawn. The reason many people would give this mistaken answer is because they don't have the knowledge to provide a better explanation, and besides, repetition of an event seems a logical reason.

There is a unique, yet somewhat strange relationship between truth and logic, but most people don't know the difference formally, and this leads to many errors in knowledge. Being rational creatures thanks to our evolved, large calculating brains, we see 'causal' connections between events, and make conclusions that seem to follow. As such, our sense of rationality is fulfilled, and if that also supports a corresponding belief, then we become fixated on our answers.

Religious fundamentalists, like some Christians, disbelieve in organic evolution, primarily because it interferes with their personal theology, and then go on to disbelieve in any evidence that supports evolution, like an old earth. They will only accept a 3000 year old one. But they still have fulfilling lives, so what does such mistaken beliefs matter? There are even some scientists who fall into this minority group!

In the case of the origins of CoV-SARS-2, it is easy to generate a belief in an engineered virus: The unscrupulous Chinese would be likely candidates to do such a thing, they may have sufficient cause (for whatever reasons), any of which may lead us to a conclusion that seems reasonable. We could write statements with some specific details about all this, which would then act as premises for a bio/engineered virus / economic / warfare / over population / add any potential topic / and ben presto, we can draw a definite conclusion. It may be quite logical, even deductively valid, but even if so, still untrue. But deductive valid arguments aren't necessarily true, but you would need to have studied formal logic to know this. I'll spare you the lesson.

Regarding SARS-2, you say you read anything that supports that the virus is not manufactured.

Have you read the genome? If not, you havn't read the most important information about the origins of the virus. There isn't a virologist today that believes in the manufactured theory. We know this because a group of Indian researchers back in the very early period of the outbreak, wrote a paper that stated that there were 'four uncanny HIV inserts' in the virus genome. However, it didn't take long before many other virologists proved this error. The paper was soon withdrawn. Here is a link to the Indian paper: Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag

Since then, there have been thousands of researchers working with the genome, tracing its ancestry, its modern reincarnation, and its present mutations. None of this demonstrates human interference. I've read many of them.

What about the strain(s) of the virus in Australia; where have they mostly come from. You'd be incorrect to suggest, China. Try Italy and the USA.

Did you know that the E protein of SARS-2 differs from SARS-1 E by only four amino acids? This is remarkably 'identical,' making it very stable between strains, unlike the more well known Spike Protein (S), that is the focus of much research, especially the vaccines?

This is notable for our ASX listed Biotron.

Anyway, I hope you find something useful in all this.