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I’m pretty sure the COVID-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab on accident, and here we are. CCP incompetence or apathy allowed it to spread worldwide. They were

I’m pretty sure the COVID-19 virus escaped from the Wuhan lab on accident, and here we are. CCP incompetence or apathy allowed it to spread worldwide. They were doing legitimate research there and the protocols simply failed this one time and here we are. Viruses can escape labs. Happened in the U.K. too. The amount of cover-up and unwillingness of world leaders to really talk about the potential origin makes sense because they don’t want to create anti-Asian sentiments. We are already seeing some of that recently (attacks on Asians by morons and racists). Trump was willing to stoke the flames. He called it the China Virus specifically because of this - I think he was pissed off that it happened given his anti-China rhetoric and that world leaders probably agreed not to probe into it too much and to keep distance from the theory to prevent racist hate attacks and violence (which was probably the right thing to do). For China, well, can’t ever admit anything bad happened and all that with the authoritarian regime. So the motivation there is obvious. To me this group of actions would make the most sense geopolitically, subject to new information.

permo-w 6y ago
“CCP incompetence or apathy” caused the virus to spread or scheming. Let’s say the CCP sees the original SARS, sees the economic destruction it can wreak, quietly prepares for a pandemic - not so much that it’ll look obvious, but enough that they’ll recover significantly quicker than other nations - then releases the virus in a place known to have wet markets and a viral lab, giving them extra plausible deniability. The virus tears through the west, giving the quickly recovered and happily subsided Chinese businesses space to jump in and fill the void left by dying and dead western companies. It’s similar to what they did with the steel industry. They subsidised their steel for so long that the western steel companies went out of business from being unable to compete, then they raised their prices, and were left dominant in the market
- Mordisquitos 6y ago
  You might as well come up with a conspiracy theory proposing that it was the Taiwanese Kuomintang who released the engineered SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan with the win-win possibilities of either a) destroying the PRC's economy and political status if they failed to contain it or b) destroying their international reputation if the virus spread out of their borders and damaged the west more than them. The Kuomitang would know that the CCP's secrecy and lack of transparency would only encourage conspiracy theories about them plotting to release the virus for their own benefit. Furthermore, unlike the PRC, Taiwan would have enough motivation to engage in such risky conspiracies as they face a literal existential threat. I mean yes, this conspiracy theory is post hoc bullshit... But what makes it any worse than the one suspecting the CCP?
  - permo-w 6y ago
    Maybe it was Taiwan, you make a convincing case. But the CCP has history for this kind of behaviour

permo-w 6y ago

“CCP incompetence or apathy” caused the virus to spread or scheming. Let’s say the CCP sees the original SARS, sees the economic destruction it can wreak, quietly prepares for a pandemic - not so much that it’ll look obvious, but enough that they’ll recover significantly quicker than other nations - then releases the virus in a place known to have wet markets and a viral lab, giving them extra plausible deniability. The virus tears through the west, giving the quickly recovered and happily subsided Chinese businesses space to jump in and fill the void left by dying and dead western companies. It’s similar to what they did with the steel industry. They subsidised their steel for so long that the western steel companies went out of business from being unable to compete, then they raised their prices, and were left dominant in the market

Mordisquitos 6y ago
You might as well come up with a conspiracy theory proposing that it was the Taiwanese Kuomintang who released the engineered SARS-CoV-2 virus in Wuhan with the win-win possibilities of either a) destroying the PRC's economy and political status if they failed to contain it or b) destroying their international reputation if the virus spread out of their borders and damaged the west more than them. The Kuomitang would know that the CCP's secrecy and lack of transparency would only encourage conspiracy theories about them plotting to release the virus for their own benefit. Furthermore, unlike the PRC, Taiwan would have enough motivation to engage in such risky conspiracies as they face a literal existential threat. I mean yes, this conspiracy theory is post hoc bullshit... But what makes it any worse than the one suspecting the CCP?
- permo-w 6y ago
  Maybe it was Taiwan, you make a convincing case. But the CCP has history for this kind of behaviour