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"The virus is created in a lab" is a conspiracy theory that is being kept alive because of the way American politics work. People asume that all this writing i

by chvid 7y ago

"The virus is created in a lab" is a conspiracy theory that is being kept alive because of the way American politics work. People asume that all this writing is "organic". It is not. It is orchestrated and coordinated. Basically the current US administration gains politically by keeping war rhetorics; the "maybe the virus is created in lab, maybe released by accident, maybe on purpose, we don't know, China is not being transparent" is a key part. Accepting the virus as a natural phenomenon puts the focus on the actual policy response and that is much less of a winner.

pritovido 7y ago
"The virus is created in a lab" is not a conspiracy theory, it is just a plausible possibility that we should study. There is no "conspiracy" in the theory in fact. The most probable cause is an accident. Nobody is going to create it as a weapon without creating the vaccine first. We should not be "accepting" any prejudice, the one that "favors" US administration, or the opposite one, but we should be studding and working around evidence. By the way, if it actually was an accident, accepting that it was a natural phenomenon favors the interest of China administration too. It can't be natural, even accepting China's side's theory of the market, it would be made by human intervention mixing in the market bats with Armadillos.
- chvid 7y ago
  But it has been examined and the virus traces back to animals and earlier strains which were not as contagious. This is one of the many papers on the subject: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 So why are we still discussing this? Because we are being manipulated.
  - papermachete 7y ago
    You don't just publish a study and have it cemented as fact to end all other studies.
    - chvid 7y ago
      It is no just one paper. There are plenty of peer reviewed papers out there, published in reputable outlets, that analyzes the origin of the virus and none of them indicate that it is artificially made.
      - wayneftw 7y ago
        It doesn't have to be artificially "made". It could still be "fostered" in a lab.

by chvid 7y ago

pritovido 7y ago

"The virus is created in a lab" is not a conspiracy theory, it is just a plausible possibility that we should study. There is no "conspiracy" in the theory in fact. The most probable cause is an accident. Nobody is going to create it as a weapon without creating the vaccine first. We should not be "accepting" any prejudice, the one that "favors" US administration, or the opposite one, but we should be studding and working around evidence. By the way, if it actually was an accident, accepting that it was a natural phenomenon favors the interest of China administration too. It can't be natural, even accepting China's side's theory of the market, it would be made by human intervention mixing in the market bats with Armadillos.

chvid 7y ago
But it has been examined and the virus traces back to animals and earlier strains which were not as contagious. This is one of the many papers on the subject: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 So why are we still discussing this? Because we are being manipulated.
- papermachete 7y ago
  You don't just publish a study and have it cemented as fact to end all other studies.
  - chvid 7y ago
    It is no just one paper. There are plenty of peer reviewed papers out there, published in reputable outlets, that analyzes the origin of the virus and none of them indicate that it is artificially made.
    - wayneftw 7y ago
      It doesn't have to be artificially "made". It could still be "fostered" in a lab.