This is stupid. There is just as much evidence it came from Fort Detrick.
For the record I don’t think it came from either.
That’s the thing, the COVID conspiracy people now posting this shirt saying, “SEE!?! IT WAS LAB LEAK!!” as if that justifies every single other insane thing they’ve ever said about COVID. Because there’s a huge difference between “covid CAME FROM a lab” and “lab leak possible origin.” One implies conspiracy, the other implies carelessness. What’s the old saying? ‘Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to greed?’ I very much think the same applies to stupidity—and honestly, in this case, greed probably caused the stupidity. How much funding-slashing has led to calamity in recent times? Plenty.
The original saying is “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
It came from the wild. They, along with Germany and other labs, were researching Sars related wild vectors and the possibility of natural selection causing a new outbreak.
I find it reasonable to believe a biosafety incident at the Wuhan lab infected several of the lab researchers and that led to the pandemic.
But that’s the extent of where things go. Conspiracies about bioweapons are idiotic.
I thought this as well (massive safety events being a pretty normal thing, after all) until last year when the wet market swab data was finally analyzed. (After apparently being leaked? Accidentally? Accidentally on purpose?)
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
“Both early lineages of SARS-CoV-2 were geographically associated with the market”
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Hexbear users coming to defend China before even reading the post title:
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I am aware that this news article may be misleading. That’s not the point of my comment.
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Sup guys. Just commenting here so you can avoid reading the most brainlet of a take below. Hope you all have a good day.
Looks like lab leak theory is back on the menu boys!
I feel like i’m taking crazy pills!
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Damn even the nonpolitical homies are dunking on this one
What if covid was a terrorist atack on china and iran by obama loyalists? With the aded benefit ithat it put them back in power.
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The US funds research on a variety of subjects around the world, many of them only being possible to be researched locally because they are on local diseases and pathogens.
Less regulations, it’s easier to do “funny stuff” like gain of function research (frankly a euphemism for biological warfare research) in China than in the US. And it’s not like the US is just funding the biolab, they have people on site and oversight as well.
Ah yes, because it’s not like there are any geopolitical reasons that might explain why the NIH would want to decouple from China.
Fact is, you can find infractions from any lab. It’s just a question of whether you want to look.
Did this thread get nuked? Says there should be 57 comments.
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