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Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says

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Re: Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says

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I strongly suspect that the three-letter agencies have good intel to conclusively show that this is the case, but they have decided to hold back on it for the sake of US-China relations.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-intelligence-releases-repor...

Re: Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says

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Nothing seems certain at this point, but, let’s say the pandemic was actually caused by a lab leak. That’ll mean the world was brought to an economic standstill and millions of people died because of the errors and carelessness of some people…will there be consequences? What will be the assurance that such deadly mistake won’t occur again?

If it was actually a lab leak, then it’ll definitely rank as the most costly and fatal mistake in the 21st Century. I can hardly wrap my head around it; human error causing damage on a mythical scale. Scary stuff.

Re: Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says

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> American media

Huh? The previous President of the US frequently called it the "China Virus".

> GOP conspiracy to bring down Biden

Biden wasn't President for the first year of the pandemic, not sure how that works out.

> Are American progressives so fragile in their identity that they avoid agreeing with conservatives for fear of guilt by association?

I personally don't care whether the virus was man-made or natural. It bares next to zero importance on my life. At the end of the day what are we really arguing about? Lab practices in China? The Chinese should be better about lab safety and wet markets. But there was a pandemic which has killed millions of people. It seems like the people most invested in this question are also the ones most invested in downplaying the pandemic, which is just evil.

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