Why the pandemic probably started in a lab, in 5 key points • Hacker News Board

Post by coupdejarnac » Sun, Jun 09, 2024, 5:58 AM UTC

yawpitch wrote: post #23

tim333 wrote: post #22

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True he's not a virologist but being chairman of the Covid-19 Commission probably gives him some qualification to talk about the goings on, if more on the political side. Here's his take on what happened there: In 2001 the US defence department changed and put it's entire research budget through Tony Fauci's NIH. Since then it's been doing secretive bio defence work. When covid broke out the scientists got together t…

> if you say if came from the lab you are a conspiracy theorist and lose your grant and job. And, absent actual hard physical evidence, not the slightest amount of which exists, you should be labeled a conspiracy theorist, because that is exactly what you are. Further if your job is in direct virology / epidemiology and you’re such a theorist — which, again, pretty much does not exist, hence precisely why the actuall…

You've bought into the propaganda. China orchestrated a massive disinformation campaign to deflect responsibility. They played the race card when flights to China were stopped. This all worked masterfully on left leaning people who know a lot less than they think.

Science is about discovering consensus? Wtf is this garbage.

I'm an avid China watcher, and the propaganda there started almost immediately, even before Wuhan was locked down. There were already stories being bandied about accusing the US Army of spreading a bioweapon in Wuhan etc etc.