Sharri Markson

What Really Happened In Wuhan 

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So this year I challenged myself to read books that challenge my perspectives. Obviously I've been taking that challenge seriously.

I picked up What Really Happened in Wuhan because I honestly didn't know much about the argument for a laboratory origin for SARS-CoV-2 aside from the 'conspiracy' arguments thrown around online. And I wanted an evidence based explanation of this theory. Sharri Markson delivered that.

This book was actually very insightful and informative. It's very information heavy and can be hard to follow at times, but as a whole I enjoyed listening to another perspective. Is some of it a stretch? Yeah. A lot of it is based purely on circumstantial evidence. Pointing out events that may or may not have had anything to do with the outbreak, that sort of thing. I can't say that this book makes me sold on the theory of a laboratory leak but after reading it I can say it's opened me up to the idea that it's a possibility. The struggle with finding the source of SARS-CoV-2 is that there is a high possibility we will never know due to the way the outbreak occurred and the way it was downplayed at the beginning. 

Markson also goes into a lot of detail about key figures in the sociopolitical response to the outbreak, including Faucci, Trump, the Trump administration, the Australian government, the Chinese Government, WHO, and Chinese researchers and journalists. Having this through background was extremely helpful in even contextualizing news headlines and understanding where conflicts lie and why certain arguments that seem insignificant are actually a pretty big deal. 

All in all this was a very different book to what I usually read but I'm glad I read it. I'll now be looking for a pro-natural-cause book to hopefully get a science based explanation on that side as well.

What Really Happened In Wuhan

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