Re:Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar
by decebalus1 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @01:51PM
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Cool. Next time a cops investigate someone with priors or with similar MOs we should label them as conspiracy theorists.
I find it.. peculiar that giving merit to a theory about the Chinese government trying to cover up a lab accident is labeled or treated the same as other theories about Soros, Clintons, Illuminatis et al. There are data points which point to this. There is proof of doctors disappearing, active government censorship and prior accidents from China. Not to mention the statistical impossibility of their official epidemiological numbers. Why doesn't this merit at least the thought of an investigation? Or a non-zero probability? As someone who grew up in a communist state with a totalitarian government, I lived through 'manufactured realities' way more obscene than what I just described. This is peanuts.
It's interesting because whenever something like ^ appears online on reddit or (recently Blind), an army of people appear with one of the following arguments:
- I'm trying to deflect from the current US administration's incompetence. This IMO is an orthogonal problem
- the NY strains have European origins so why are you talking about China
- China was the only country to properly contain the virus
Re:Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar
by baddox on Sunday April 12, 2020 @04:22PM
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No, rigorous investigation of possibilities indicated by priors is not conspiracy theory. It’s conspiracy theory when you claim that it’s true without any such investigation or evidence.
I find it.. peculiar that giving merit to a theory about the Chinese government trying to cover up a lab accident is labeled or treated the same as other theories about Soros, Clintons, Illuminatis et al. There are data points which point to this. There is proof of doctors disappearing, active government censorship and prior accidents from China. Not to mention the statistical impossibility of their official epidemiological numbers. Why doesn't this merit at least the thought of an investigation? Or a non-zero probability? As someone who grew up in a communist state with a totalitarian government, I lived through 'manufactured realities' way more obscene than what I just described. This is peanuts.
It's interesting because whenever something like ^ appears online on reddit or (recently Blind), an army of people appear with one of the following arguments:
- I'm trying to deflect from the current US administration's incompetence. This IMO is an orthogonal problem
- the NY strains have European origins so why are you talking about China
- China was the only country to properly contain the virus
- tinfoil hat much?