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"The lab leak theory is informed by racist undercurrents" The language used here is indicative. Few native English speakers would ever deploy a racist undercu
by gerdesj 3y ago
"The lab leak theory is informed by racist undercurrents"
The language used here is indicative. Few native English speakers would ever deploy a racist undercurrent when a perfectly decent overtone exists to do the job properly. An undercurrent is covert and an overtone is overt. The allegations are largely overt.
It turns out that most large Chinese cities are home to labs that study coronaviruses and virus outbreaks occur rurally ... anyway the article is now obviously bollocks, through over editing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_lab_leak_theory - click on View History, hit the 500 entry link and you will only go back to February this year!
You do get to view the complete history of this article. You can watch it churn, revision by revision. There must be a paper in there or two - just on the revision history of a WP article.
Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=COVID-19_lab_leak_theory&oldid=1005881401 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=COVID-19_lab_leak...