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Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf]
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#132Off topic, does anyone else remember the videos from December/January 2020 coming from China that showed young healthy adults dropping dead in the streets like it was a zombie plague? Going off of China’s own numbers, none of that was reality, so what the heck was that? Some ridiculous psyop? For what purpose? To what end?
yes, i was also wondering about that. but i remember mostly videos of elderly people suddenly dropping dead.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
What? It was misinformation then but it might be true so its ok now? That means it wasn't misinformation then either. Also who decides what is misinformation?
If I claim that aliens are manipulating our weather and that proof exists, when it doesn’t, that is misinformation. There is no evidence to support my claim, and it is wrong, even if I believe it to be true. If aliens show up tomorrow and announce they have been messing with the weather, then we have the evidence and it is true, but I was still spreading misinformation.
There was once this crank who claimed the Earth orbited the Sun, and not the other way around...
That was misinformation too, no?
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. You've posted good comments in the past, so this should be easy to fix.
beep boop I will tweak the RLHF. d(dang)/dt++
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Conservatives need for the lab leak theory to be correct as they were wrong about basically all other points on covid. They refused to believe in masks, lockdowns, and social distancing and paid the ultimate price at a much higher rate. [0] [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/03/03/the-changing...
> Conservatives need for the lab leak theory to be correct as they were wrong about basically all other points on covid This is the most persuasive point I've read on HN the entire week, thank you.
It would be interesting to see this with better detail, like age, weight, etc.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
> They refused to believe in masks, As someone that believed in masks from the very beginning. The CDC and Fauci himself said masks were useless at the start of the pandemic. Stop being a pawn.
My understanding is that they said that as a path to avoid hoarding of N95 supplies which they knew were in short supply for those who most needed it at the time, medical professionals. That doesn't aren't right, precisely because it validates conspiracy minded people.
> That doesn't aren't right, precisely because it validates conspiracy minded people.
That’s putting it far too lightly. It proved a “conspiracy” 100% true. I had masks early in the pandemic only because a “nutty” colleague said “they’re going to try to take the masks from us” and he brought me a box.
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#137Off topic, does anyone else remember the videos from December/January 2020 coming from China that showed young healthy adults dropping dead in the streets like it was a zombie plague? Going off of China’s own numbers, none of that was reality, so what the heck was that? Some ridiculous psyop? For what purpose? To what end?
> Going off of China’s own numbers
Why would you do that? Their numbers are factually fiction [1]. I know someone who had weekly reports, through their business relations, of where outbreaks were when, according to China, there were zero cases and deaths. They weren’t allowed to travel or do business in those areas.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/30/asia/wuhan-china-covid-intl/i...
Re: Declassified U.S. report on origins of Covid-19 virus [pdf]
#138Off topic, does anyone else remember the videos from December/January 2020 coming from China that showed young healthy adults dropping dead in the streets like it was a zombie plague? Going off of China’s own numbers, none of that was reality, so what the heck was that? Some ridiculous psyop? For what purpose? To what end?
Let's remember those videos were release by 3rd parties, as leaks, claiming that China was hiding the real pandemic
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok, so? This is inference from a bunch of connected but circumstantial evidence. Can someone explain to me what the harm is in this practice?
Speculate all you want, just don't make definitive claims using non-definitive evidence.
Even if you had literal witnesses it wouldn't be 'definitive' evidence, I'm not sure why you're using this argument as if you can't make claims about things you didn't directly observe.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lab leak theorists don’t believe Covid was developed as a weapon. They believe it was an accidental leak from a lab doing normal, non-warfare virological research. The quoted phrasing makes me think that they know it was a leak but redirect the conversation by saying it wasn’t a biological weapon.
Many conspiracy theorists have claimed it was a bio-weapon, along with other batshit stuff like Bill Gates & 5G. Read both quotes, not just the last one.
Poisoning the well. Not alot of people subscribe to the COVID is 5G sickness theory aside from Facebook boomers, while Bill Gates' ideology and history of dodgy dealings in foreign countries is not even remotely comparable.