Bro, that was just a transient vaping disease and a pneumonia outbreak that occurred right around Ft Detrick, a place that has never had any concerns about the safe containment of infectious materials which was shut down for no particular reason. Trust me, bro - it's the wet markets that are to blame.
exactly. It was just a coincidence and seething Chinese are the only ones stating otherwise
there's definitely no reason that the US had sudden mystery pneumonias in June 2019 and also August 2019 and also Sept-November 2019 which all tested negative for common culprits and kept thousands of kids out of school for weeks, and the fact that these pneumonias were totally absent in 2018 and prior is also a coincidence and it's also pure chance that at the Wuhan military games in October people from countries like Franceia were complaining of severe pneumonia-like illnesses, and that there were American kids dying of bloodclots in Nov 2019 right after recovering from pneumonia and the fact that vapers are 5x more likely to contract covid in the first place and just mysteriously had a huge vape epidemic in summer 2019 it's all just fucking Xi Jinping's fault
"china has biological weapons which can incapacitate an entire populace and choke their medical systems to ineffeciveness. thats why we have to go to war with them"
In my ignorance I thought that once there was a scientific consensus that a zoonotic crossover event was the likely origin for covid this shit would be over, at least among liberals. How naive I was…
This article is motivated reasoning at its best. It’s drawing conclusions about the likelihood of a lab leak based purely on circumstantial evidence. That’s not how science works! That kind of reasoning is the basis for race science, climate change denialism, and all sorts of other pseudoscientific nonsense. You can’t just say “There is some uncertainty in climate models and also it snowed today so obviously global warming is a myth”. You also can’t casually dismisses the evidence presented that point to a zoonotic origin of the virus without good counter evidence.
The fact remains that most of the preeminent virologists in the world believe a zoonotic crossover event was the likely origin of Covid. The World Health Organization made a statement to that effect and they haven’t changed their position. Even Fauci recently testified in front of congress and said the same thing. The author of this article, Alina Chan, is not taken seriously in the field. She’s just some fucking post doc who wanted a book deal.
It just goes to show how much the liberal line of “Listen to the science” is such bullshit if all the opinions in the NYT are pseudo intellectual hacks that obediently regurgitate the US state department line.
The fact remains that most of the preeminent virologists in the world believe a zoonotic crossover event was the likely origin of Covid. The World Health Organization made a statement to that effect and they haven’t changed their position
yeah because they either haven't heard of ft detrick or are covering it up!
If you believe that then you’re making the same mistake as this author just without the whole carrying water for imperialism thing which of course matters.
literally everytime i see threads like these i think to myself "where are my fort detrick truthers" and everytime they're in here. i should probably actually try and learn what the deal is with detrick
You really don’t have to. It’s a theory anyone who knows anything about the science won’t take seriously. It just gained traction because some Chinese media claimed it was a possibility after the Wuhan lab leak theory was getting talked up in western media. That’s why hexbears latched onto it so much. However, in a weirdly new way to express western chauvinism, many hexbears just ignore the Chinese scientists who did the hard work of helping to identify the likely origins of Covid. They mean well and rightfully question the US state department story but it’s painfully frustrating all the same.
yeah tbh it always felt like people just counterjerking the obviously bullshit wuhan lab thing and then getting lost in the sauce, especially since the main thing that seems to be evidence of it after all this time is still just the same load of google search screenshots i've seen about a dozen times
I don’t give a shit where it came from. The fact of the matter is that the US became aware of it and did absolutely nothing for its citizens nor the world. If an arsonist burns my house, I’ll be pissed, but if the firefighters arrived and just stood there and kicked the dirt I’d be more furious about that than about thr arsonist.