the lab leak theory is wild lol

it requires you to accept the chinese government made ALOT of big brain 200 IQ geopolitical gambles, and then it requires you to accept that they [i]all[/i] paid off lol.

>Developed the latest of the yearly coronavirus strains
>released it in their own country
>counted on westerners spreading it back to their countries
>western governments having such a breathtakingly incompetent response that huge swathes of the population got wiped out

even if it was true it, lol, at any point it could have been interrupted by any basic precautions in the west.

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JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M

I believe there is a very rational argument for a lab leak that doesn't require much of what you propose.

Effectively, it was an accident and China (along with other Eastern cultures), has a twisted sense of pride: lying about it's origin was much preferred over admitting a mistake.

Could virologists have been investigating a bio-weapon? Possibly. However, the Wuhan lab gets funding from many non-Chinese sources. Virus manipulation is happening in multiple labs around the world, and it's been happening for decades... not to engineer badness, but to learn and be prepared for what may happen in nature.

The international resistance to declaring it as "lab originated" stemmed from a desire to counter the anti-information campaigns of right-wing nationalists, not only in the US, but in a number of Western nations.

[b]When first you practice to deceive, what a tangled web you weave.[/b]

More likely than not, China completely underestimated how crazy this thing is. While they witnessed how weirdly contagious it is, they did NOT witness the mutation abilities, not until it started mutating in the west.

If this was a lab leak and China lied about it, they gained no strategic advantage. The best vaccinces have come from the West.

So, the right wing narrative that this was manufactured is pretty weak.
But the contrasting narrative that it is entirely from nature also fails to account for the fact that bats are not easily infected by Covid-19.

Even crazy people get the story partially correct sometimes.

NoahB · 26-30, M

@JoeyFoxx [quote]Effectively, it was an accident and China (along with other Eastern cultures), has a twisted sense of pride: lying about it's origin was much preferred over admitting a mistake.[/quote]

yeah we definitely dont do that in america lmao

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JoeyFoxx · 51-55, M

@NoahB I'm not absolving anyone. But, from a strictly cultural perspective, it's quite different.

Just last week, a Chinese official jumped to his death after his agency promoted a grueling marathon that resulted in the deaths of some competitors. It's quite common, much moreso than in Western cultures.

Of course the US hides the truth. We need only listen to the former President's admission that he knew how dangerous it was an intentionally kept it quiet.