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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by creato on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:25PM (#27190958)
You're writing as if somehow general pandemic response has been deprioritized in favor investigating the lab leak theory, which is absurdly far from reality.

This incident has cost millions of lives and possibly undone decades of progress on reducing poverty worldwide. It is worth pursuing multiple angles in parallel.

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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by p1necone on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:34PM (#27190999)
Pandemic response in the USA was atrocious, and it's politically convenient for those who support the administration that was responsible to try to deflect blame however they can. So I'm very skeptical of the motives of people that keep posting stuff like this.
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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by esyir on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:47AM (#27191345)
The academic community is pretty opposed to the trump administration, which also is the one blamed for the covid response. Don't see why they'd be bending over to defend it there.
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