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Lab leak – True origins of Covid-19

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Re: Lab leak – True origins of Covid-19

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> Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions. When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to “outright censorship—coercing and colluding with the world’s largest social media companies to censor all COVID-19-related dissent.”

I remember when lab leak was officially considered a conspiracy theory, and everyone who mentioned or even referenced it should be canceled and shunned.

Re: Lab leak – True origins of Covid-19

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If half of the claims are accurate... Should Trump not be blaming himself, here?

No, as you can see by the beautiful and very appropriate visuals (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Frame-...), he is coming out towards us, the viewers, with his back to the Lab Leak letters. He is poised, he's not looking back (suggesting that maybe the letters will explode?).

If we know anything about American fiction, it's that:

- The person walking with their back on the scene is the hero

- The hero is totally justified in whatever they are doing, no need to question their motives, morale or veracity

- An explosion or sunglasses (or both) is imminent

If this wasn't tragic, it'd be actually some (low) quality entertainment.

Re: Lab leak – True origins of Covid-19

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> Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions. When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to “ou…

But since the was no such a time (it was an official alternative), and only a few people got shunned, the theory became more prominent

Re: Lab leak – True origins of Covid-19

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Not from US. I understand why democrats and centrists worried about COVID origin and lab leak theory and that it was suppressed. But the extreme right of all people, how do they explain it if their previous line was literally "COVID doesn't exist or is not worse than any flu"?

Re: Lab leak – True origins of Covid-19

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post #7

> Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions. When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to “ou…

But since the was no such a time (it was an official alternative), and only a few people got shunned, the theory became more prominent

For a time mentioning covid lab leak (like literally quoting published research) on Instagram or FB looked definitely suppressed to me. As non American this is maybe the only thing that looks wrong about US gov COVID handling.

Re: Lab leak – True origins of Covid-19

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

But since the was no such a time (it was an official alternative), and only a few people got shunned, the theory became more prominent

For a time mentioning covid lab leak (like literally quoting published research) on Instagram or FB looked definitely suppressed to me. As non American this is maybe the only thing that looks wrong about US gov COVID handling.

None of this company was official USG
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