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In reply to the discussion: Did I miss this discussion today?? Conservatives applaud Jon Stewart??? [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)29. The claim being made on the right is that China was sequencing the virus
and accelerated it to study it (or one claim is the Chinese military was involved and likely looking at it as a bio weapon).
The bio weapon theory works only if China could totally seal itself off from the rest of the world after releasing the virus on its targets. In todays interconnected world, the likelihood of China pulling that off without harming its own people seems small.
It is possible that Chinese scientists were studying the virus in a lab and had an unintended leak. China would know that and my feeling is it is in that countrys best interests to explain what it was trying to do (assuming that theory is true).
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Did I miss this discussion today?? Conservatives applaud Jon Stewart??? [View all]
a kennedy
Jun 2021
OP
When science doesn't know, I am smart enough to know that it is too soon for me to
OAITW r.2.0
Jun 2021
#9
So many virologists on Twitter talking about sequences I don't understand
womanofthehills
Jun 2021
#24
OMG but our scientists have reconstructed the 1918 virus- hope it doesn't escape the lab
womanofthehills
Jun 2021
#33
All you wrote, unfortunately is true. There was tremendous resistance to commonsense
Blue_true
Jun 2021
#43
Blame China became his mantra after it was obvious that he totally screwed up the US response.
OAITW r.2.0
Jun 2021
#15
Of course they're jumping on it. "Liberal icon endorses Trump bullshit!" (or some variant)
JHB
Jun 2021
#12
We have to be prepared to handle these things whether from lab, bats, enemies, etc.
Hoyt
Jun 2021
#14
Not only was Trump not ready, he had crippled our ability to get early warning
Blue_true
Jun 2021
#17