• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    The lab-leak theory for the origins of the 2020 pandemic was racist disinformation; now, commentators and experts acknowledge it’s a genuine possibility.

    just gonna open with that with zero supportive evidence huh? Jesus Christ.

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      As an expert in another field, I’ll gladly go on the record refusing to rule out almost anything that is not actually impossible. That doesn’t mean I think it happened, or even that it’s even slightly likely.

      If you ask your experts “is this possible” you are not getting your money’s worth.

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      Was there evidence supporting the lab-leak “theory” at the time? I think there was not. And yet, Fox News was harping on this hypothesis, Trump was calling Covid the “Kung Flu”, and racists were hate-criming Asian Americans in the streets. There is a reason we were saying just shut up about the lab leak at the time. (Admittedly, it might be true, but that doesn’t mean its proponents in 2020 were right.)

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      Fauci backtracked all his previous lies about the lab leak being a conspiracy theory https://youtu.be/AqYZw1TNFZ4?t=1m38s

      UsRighttoknow found evidence that a US company outsourced virus research that described covid19 to the Wuhan Lab.

      Of course it’s no surprise that the Wuhan Lab of Virology is responsible for the outbreak of a virus right next to it. But hey that Pangolin wet market story sounds so funny let’s keep repeating it.

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            This is so dumb. We’ll never know exactly but from what we do the initial infections don’t convincingly point to workers from the lab, genetic evidence suggests zoonautic origins are probable, there is no proof either way. The Chinese government isn’t allowing an audit, and by this point it’s too late anyway.

            There is no reason to believe it’s likely. Let alone certain. It’s literally just “China, who the usaians call red china, is uncooperative” and “there’s a lab studying Coronavirus’s in a region with lots of them”

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              You just got linked proof.

              Even the person who gaslighted the world into believing lab leak was a conspiracy, has backtracked it last month. You just saw the video

              Just accept that the government lied.

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                What government? what are you fucking on about? I don’t give a shit about political games in some hick filled military cult if you’re talking about the evil empire.

                There is zero evidence sars2 came from a lab, zero. Something being technically possible is not the same as it being likely.

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                    3 months ago

                    Idk how to explain epistemology to you. This whole yeah yeah cleavage sites spike protein blah blah you gotta ask. Why were people proposing investigating that? Oh because they were anticipating viruses like that would be highly infectious and could emerge.

                    Coincidences actually do happen, how many proposed researches into coronaviruses don’t match sars 2? Why don’t initial cases line up with what we know of where lab workers lived and travelled? why is there no testimony relating to the lab work? scientists have souls you know.

                    Viruses jump species, novel mutations happen. Everyone was expecting a Coronavirus pandemic and guess what? In a completely predictable fashion we got one.

                    You can’t just put red string between every vaguely cooincidental thing and conclude something. That’ll have you going bonkers.