Re: OT: Covid's True Origins

On 21/04/2025 11:33 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:48:12 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 4/19/2025 12:08 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:44:53 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 4/18/2025 7:52 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

This report would never have seen the light of day if Joe Biden still
occupied the Big Chair....
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https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/lab-leak-white-house-unveils-massive-report-true-origins-covid-19

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LOL imagine how much it sucks to be whomever has to write 557 pages of
nonsense for the benefit of kooks who won't read it, anyway.
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"ZeroHedge launched our premium service - and more recently, the ZH
Store, where loyal readers routinely cause us to sell out of hats,
shirts, knives, and the unsurprisingly popular ZeroHedge multitool"
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Sold to citizens who have a good dose of
main-character-in-their-own-movie syndrome.
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"Moychendizing. Where the real money from the movie is made!"
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<https://youtu.be/fgRFQJCHcPw?si=5LDR_eT9pKaVAvMj&t=41>

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Do you use hats, shirts, knives, or tools? Probably not.
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Do you think the covid epidemic just coincidentally started within
walking distance of the Wuhan bat virus research lab? Probably so.

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So I'm supposed to believe the proximal cause was a lab leak not only of
a known-dangerous virus, but very likely a _genetically engineered_ and
weaponized virus designed by an antagonistic foreign power...

 It hit Chinese people, and wrecked the Chinese economy, so it wasn't
any useful sort of weapon. It was a lab mistake.

It would have been a lab mistake if it had been created in a lab, for which there's no actual evidence at all

It's not the first nasty virus brewed in a lab that had bad protocols.

Name one. Some virus labs still preserve the small-pox virus, and one worker in a such a lab actually screwed up badly enough to get small-pox, but it didn't start an epidemic.
There are lots of nasty viruses around to test the protocols. None of them seem to have escaped.

...and simultaneously the correct response for American leadership was
to do _nothing_? Let that plausible rogue bio-weapon "rip" through
society, don't have lock downs or implement any fashion of civil
defense, and just ensure the restaurants stay open at all costs?

 I recall a lot of stuff being done. Lockdowns, distancing, masking
several vaccines developed.

The vaccines were developed pretty much as soon as the Covid-19 genome was released by Chinese researcher. The US government didn't have anything to do with that - I think that pretty much all the initial work was done in Europe, though volume production did move to the US early on for some of them. Trump tried to buy into that around May 2020, with limited success.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney