Lab Leak - How the media poo-pooh'ed it.
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Had somebody say just this week, that the lab leak stuff was the final straw for them. They now question any news from the MSM.
Lot of credibility thrown away, in pursuit of a political agenda.
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(Dont know the answer but wondering what others think.)
What, if anything, would have changed if it were definite known that the COVID was from a lab and escaped vs. wild animal transmission?
For my opinion, I dont see really any changes to the response. The vast majority of the response was to the disease and it would nt have mattered the origin.
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@taiwan_girl said in Lab Leak - How the media poo-pooh'ed it.:
What, if anything, would have changed if it were definite known that the COVID was from a lab
Perhaps having access to the genome and mounting a faster, one might even say "trans-warp speed, development of the vaccine.
And perhaps, maintaining some shred of trust in the media and government.
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And, the public would have known the Chinese were involved in gain of function research (that Fauci was paying for) that weaponized viruses for the Chinese military.
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But, I am not sure any of that would have changed the response.
(Having say that, yes, it will be good when we finally find out the exact cause of the COVID)
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It’s kind of sad but if someone were to ask me off the top of my head to name world-changing Chinese inventions my answer would be gunpowder and Covid.
I would struggle to name a third, though that is no doubt a function of my own ignorance.
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@jon-nyc said in Lab Leak - How the media poo-pooh'ed it.:
It’s kind of sad but if someone were to ask me off the top of my head to name world-changing Chinese inventions my answer would be gunpowder and Covid.
I would struggle to name a third, though that is no doubt a function of my own ignorance.
Paper and the compass. Silk. The wheel barrow as well I believe. I also seem to think at least a few metallurgical processes.
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The "official academic" take is still firmly a zoonotic origin, aligned with the Proximal Origins paper, which calls a lab leak "not plausible". But we also have the intelligence services and their reports, which are more equivocal and in some cases leaning towards a leak.