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The origin of COVID-19 is going to be one of the biggest news stories in 2021-22 IMO. China's global reputation is going to take a hit. I don't think they did t

The origin of COVID-19 is going to be one of the biggest news stories in 2021-22 IMO. China's global reputation is going to take a hit. I don't think they did this intentionally. I think everyone had the best of intentions and either they found something deep in a bat cave or there was a lab mishap. I've gone down the rabbit hole on this issue. Here are some interesting links https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=R01AI110964&hl=en&as_sd https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=R01AI110964&hl=en&as_sd... is the papers done by a NIH grant to Eco Health Alliance. This shows they were looking for new variants of Coronavirus at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089274/pdf/114 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7089274/pdf/114... This shows they were artificially synthesizing Coronaviruses and incubating them in monkey cells. Dr. Peter Daszak seems to be in the center of a lot of this and IMO had a conflict of interest being on the WHO COVID-19 origins report.

dang 5y ago
Please don't copy-paste comments. It strictly lowers the signal/noise ratio, and it contradicts the principle that HN threads are supposed to be conversations. People don't repeat long pre-written statements in conversation. If you want to refer to something you said in a previous context, that's fine and is what links are for. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20copy%20paste&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
varispeed 5y ago
> China's global reputation is going to take a hit. If having openly racist culture and running concentration camps has done nothing to their reputation, I don't think anything will. > I don't think they did this intentionally. Regardless if this was intentional or not, they should take responsibility. Imagine if Russia dropped a nuclear bomb on Europe by mistake. This is the same calibre of "oops my bad.". It's not a secret that these viruses were researched as a potential bio-weapon. In that sense whether it was intentional or not, it has done immense damage to worldwide economy, which is exactly the goal of such bio-weapon.
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Nationalistic flamewar is particularly not welcome here. If we're to have a thoughtful, substantive conversation about a topic as sensitive as the OP, not jumping straight into the flames of hell is...rather a precondition. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- Izkata 5y ago
  > and running concentration camps has done nothing to their reputation I think most people just don't know about the Uyghur camps.

dang 5y ago

Please don't copy-paste comments. It strictly lowers the signal/noise ratio, and it contradicts the principle that HN threads are supposed to be conversations. People don't repeat long pre-written statements in conversation. If you want to refer to something you said in a previous context, that's fine and is what links are for. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20copy%20paste&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

varispeed 5y ago

> China's global reputation is going to take a hit. If having openly racist culture and running concentration camps has done nothing to their reputation, I don't think anything will. > I don't think they did this intentionally. Regardless if this was intentional or not, they should take responsibility. Imagine if Russia dropped a nuclear bomb on Europe by mistake. This is the same calibre of "oops my bad.". It's not a secret that these viruses were researched as a potential bio-weapon. In that sense whether it was intentional or not, it has done immense damage to worldwide economy, which is exactly the goal of such bio-weapon.

dang 5y ago
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. Nationalistic flamewar is particularly not welcome here. If we're to have a thoughtful, substantive conversation about a topic as sensitive as the OP, not jumping straight into the flames of hell is...rather a precondition. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Izkata 5y ago
> and running concentration camps has done nothing to their reputation I think most people just don't know about the Uyghur camps.