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Why does it require a cover-up so vast? All you need to keep the secret is blocking access from international investigators and the silence of the very few peop
by beaner 5y ago
Why does it require a cover-up so vast? All you need to keep the secret is blocking access from international investigators and the silence of the very few people originally involved. There's tons of precedent of harsh and inhumane penalties for saying things the government doesn't want you to from within China. And international investigation is quite simple to decline, you just say no. I don't think it's as complicated as you're trying to make it sound.
- cratermoon 5y agoYou vastly underestimate the number of people who would have to be silent or silenced. People are terrible at keeping secrets.
- johncena33 5y ago> People are terrible at keeping secrets. Not unless their lives are at risk. You do understand that we are talking about CCP?
- tomp 5y agoMaybe people are terrible at keeping secrets, but also everyone who spills the secret is immediately branded a conspiracy theorist and deplatformed, the end result is the same...
- beaner 5y agoI mean, citations please. If it really was a lab leak, who is to say it wasn't from a small specialized research team, maybe some academics who were aware of the science but not the implementation, and a couple people in management? The project does not need to have been a huge, nefarious, x-files program. That sounds like the conspiracy theory to me. I think you might be vastly overestimating how many people would even have been knowledgeable about it in the first place.