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There does appear to be a growing body of evidence circumstantially suggesting that COVID-19 is due to American incompetence and gross negligence.

bpodgursky 5y ago
No, there is not.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
  Unfortunately, there is. Following Go rules, since I no longer have the energy to dig up references for you, let’s just call ko.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - edgyquant 5y ago
    No there isn’t, you’re spreading misinformation in a laughably obvious way.
    - 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
      Nervously laughable dis-misinformation, perhaps.
      - edgyquant 5y ago
        No laughable as in anyone who reads your comments sees that you’re outright lying. You quoted a paragraph about wuhan lab leaks as proof America was somehow responsible for covid. This stuff works on Facebook or Reddit where no one actually reads linked sources or quotes, it doesn’t work here.
octopoc 5y ago
How so? If it leaked from a lab, it is almost certainly from the Wuhan lab. The Wuhan lab was a joint French-Chinese operation. Before COVID-19, EcoHealth (an organization with ties to the Wuhan lab) applied for a grant from DARPA to perform gain-of-function-esque research on COVID[1]. DARPA denied the application. [1] https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/ https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
  From [1]: Other scientists contacted by The Intercept noted that there is published evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was already engaged in some of the genetic engineering work described in the proposal and that viruses designed in North Carolina could easily be used in China. “The mail is filled with little envelopes with plasmid dried on to filter paper that scientists routinely send each other,” said Jack Nunberg, director of the Montana Biotechnology Center at the University of Montana.
  - octopoc 5y ago
    > the Wuhan Institute of Virology was already engaged in some of the genetic engineering work described in the proposal Sure, but that doesn't point to America it points to China. > “The mail is filled with little envelopes with plasmid dried on to filter paper that scientists routinely send each other,” It seems unlikely the leak happened at the Wuhan post office, but even if it did, how does imply American incompetence?
    - 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
      > how does imply American incompetence? 1 million dead people kind of makes it seem an “a priori”
      - edgyquant 5y ago
        Way to skirt around the fact that nothing points to it having come from America or being due to it. Even if incompetence allowed it to spread it was already global when it reached the US.

bpodgursky 5y ago

No, there is not.

9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
Unfortunately, there is. Following Go rules, since I no longer have the energy to dig up references for you, let’s just call ko.
- deleted 5y ago
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- edgyquant 5y ago
  No there isn’t, you’re spreading misinformation in a laughably obvious way.
  - 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
    Nervously laughable dis-misinformation, perhaps.
    - edgyquant 5y ago
      No laughable as in anyone who reads your comments sees that you’re outright lying. You quoted a paragraph about wuhan lab leaks as proof America was somehow responsible for covid. This stuff works on Facebook or Reddit where no one actually reads linked sources or quotes, it doesn’t work here.

octopoc 5y ago

How so? If it leaked from a lab, it is almost certainly from the Wuhan lab. The Wuhan lab was a joint French-Chinese operation. Before COVID-19, EcoHealth (an organization with ties to the Wuhan lab) applied for a grant from DARPA to perform gain-of-function-esque research on COVID[1]. DARPA denied the application. [1] https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/ https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...

9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
From [1]: Other scientists contacted by The Intercept noted that there is published evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was already engaged in some of the genetic engineering work described in the proposal and that viruses designed in North Carolina could easily be used in China. “The mail is filled with little envelopes with plasmid dried on to filter paper that scientists routinely send each other,” said Jack Nunberg, director of the Montana Biotechnology Center at the University of Montana.
- octopoc 5y ago
  > the Wuhan Institute of Virology was already engaged in some of the genetic engineering work described in the proposal Sure, but that doesn't point to America it points to China. > “The mail is filled with little envelopes with plasmid dried on to filter paper that scientists routinely send each other,” It seems unlikely the leak happened at the Wuhan post office, but even if it did, how does imply American incompetence?
  - 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago
    > how does imply American incompetence? 1 million dead people kind of makes it seem an “a priori”
    - edgyquant 5y ago
      Way to skirt around the fact that nothing points to it having come from America or being due to it. Even if incompetence allowed it to spread it was already global when it reached the US.