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The argument posted in your link seems best summarized as: "China had virologists and biologists studying coronaviruses and that is suspicious." It even admits
by KirinDave 7y ago
The argument posted in your link seems best summarized as: "China had virologists and biologists studying coronaviruses and that is suspicious." It even admits in the first paragraph it has no evidence of a causal relationship. We'd expect a country that is appropriately prioritizing domestic viral threats to be profiling things like coronaviruses in animals, so it seems odd to count this as evidence.
Unless I missed some key evidence in the text, it seems like the entire animus of this argument was that the Chinese government would be inclined to lie if the virus did escape from a lab, and since they said it didn't happen, that must be true.
Doesn't that make it a simple conspiracy theory? I get that Americans are inclined to believe governments lie about these things, (after all, the US covered up its H1N1 strain outbreak by calling it "Spanish") but if we're trying to evaluate things in terms of evidence and probability, this argument seems contrived.
- throwanem 7y agoThe claim last month was that the virus was created in a Chinese lab, not merely that it was accidentally released from one, so I guess this counts as some kind of improvement, at least.
- makomk 7y agoThe theory about the virus being accidentally released from a Chinese lab was actually the original, dating back to January - the claim that it was created in a Chinese lab seems to have sort of metamorphised out of that as it spread.
- paul7986 7y agoWhile I'm on the fence re: China's potential Nefarious actions ..there's no doubt China's economy which now has a head start will benefit from Corona.
- KirinDave 7y agoIf China does have any benefits from coming out of their disasterous outbreak, it's miniscule compared to the squandered benefits of European and American governments that willfully ignored and minimized the risk.
- paul7986 7y agoUmmm the liberal media is now publishing reports that itd not from a wet market but from a laboratory. Oops a highly and deadly infectious disease mistakenly is released hmmmm... Freaking China we are talking about..a society closed up all even its people ...