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        3 days ago

        Turns out it almost certainly came from a lab In Wuhan China, that is barely even a conspiracy theory anymore just politically uncomfortable soooo, we could have if we wanted to and we didn’t…

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          The problem with framing it as “it came from a lab in Wuhan”, makes it sound like the likely explenation is that it was designed in a lab by scientists as a bioweapon. In reality, IF it came from a lab which isn’t, and probably never will be proven, it would be as a containment failure by scientists researching the very natural and non-human-made virus.

          While both of those scenarios can be summed up as “came from a lab”, they are very very different, and idiots tend to belive the virus was a chinese made bioweapon, instead of a chinese accident without any intended mallice.

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            2 days ago

            The problem was the many safety failures and the fact that it might not have been genetically engineered but released as a test that couldn’t be tracked back to them.