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This is exactly what's so frustrating about the media treating the gain-of-function research they were doing as the "smoking gun" is so disingenuous. We were do
by shakezula 5y ago
This is exactly what's so frustrating about the media treating the gain-of-function research they were doing as the "smoking gun" is so disingenuous. We were doing all of the same types of research, even cooperating with their government on some of it in our own labs IN CHINA, and then all of a sudden we turn around and blame them? Come on, people, you're playing right into what the propaganda says happened. They're not doing anything the U.S. government wouldn't do if the likely point of origin had been somewhere in Atlanta.
- abakker 5y agoRight, but the purpose of the narrative is not to compare whether we are doing the same thing. It is to blame China for the pandemic. TBH, if we did the same thing, I expect the rest of the world would blame us. That said, it seems pretty unproductive at this point to blame anyone, but it does seem productive to avoid it happening again.
- shakezula 5y agoThat's exactly my point. It doesn't help anyone to blame anyone else, and the fact that Americans are so fast to blame China is very telling. Years of propaganda has worked its magic in far more sinister ways than any of us want to admit, especially to ourselves.
- shapefrog 5y ago> the fact that Americans are so fast to blame China is very telling * P(agressivley blame china | american lab leak of gain of function) Not a 0 on that one.
- jerry1979 5y agoDo we need to actually blame them, as such? Or is it more important to memorialize the mistake so we can learn from our history?
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