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Jon Stewart's take is brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8&t=170s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8&t=170s > "The name of the disea
by khazhoux 5y ago
Jon Stewart's take is brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8&t=170s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8&t=170s
> "The name of the disease is printed on the lab's business cards!!"
But the reason the Left in the US couldn't even consider Wuhan as the source, is because the Right (well, Trump himself) wanted to say that because it was "China's fault", that his Administration bore no responsibility for dealing with it.
- minerva23 5y agoDoesn't it make sense to establish a lab near a source of what you're studying? You don't establish a tropical botany lab in Antarctica. Left/right (false binary) politics aside, doesn't it make sense to focus on finding a solution prior to focusing on prevention/blame?
- klabb3 5y agoIf by near, you mean the same continent, then yes. The candidate bat caves for the zoonotic origins of sars-cov-2 are spread out over east and southeast Asia, and are nowhere near Wuhan. The lab received funding from the US, and GoF research happens all over the world, so the China bad narrative overlaps quite poorly with the lab leak theory. The proper reaction to the lab leak theory would be more along the lines of reconsidering the cost-benefit analysis on gain of function research, where a single leak can lead to tens of millions dead and perhaps more next time. > doesn't it make sense to focus on finding a solution prior to focusing on prevention/blame? Why not both? One reason to hurry the hell up is that evidence may be destroyed and the people who know something may be silenced or disappeared.