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Re:The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19... by myfavoritedog on Friday June 04, 2021 @09:54AM (#27393610)
I think we are in disagreement. I don't remember such a switch, nor can identify one browsing backwards.

Concerns about COVID were being cast as "racist" by the Left and the media (but I repeat myself) in the beginning: https://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-denies-she-downplayed-coronavi...

https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1246131288664408064

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JZ0Ruh89f0

If you don't remember that, then you should question your information sources. I remember the accusations of racism online quite vividly as I voiced my concerns in early February that people should start taking precautions: buying quarantine supplies, PPE, etc.

Tucker Carlson had some early reports on COVID and was attacked for fear-mongering by his usual left-leaning political opponents.

Re:The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19... by croon on Friday June 04, 2021 @10:54AM (#27394191)
> https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1246131288664408064

This is Fauci (serving under Trump) saying in January 2020 that he didn't think it was a threat, or am I missing something?

Are you saying that a then Trump official, now Biden official was speaking out of partisanship?

> I remember the accusations of racism online quite vividly as I voiced my concerns in early February that people should start taking precautions: buying quarantine supplies, PPE, etc.

I stocked up on ~3-4 weeks worth of supplies too, and replenished bi-weekly since early february, as well as many of my friends, neither of whom politicised it.

> Tucker Carlson had some early reports on COVID and was attacked for fear-mongering by his usual left-leaning political opponents.

Do you mean his fellow network hosts?

https://i.insider.com/5e5959a6fee23d09e47eae94?width=951&for...

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/imag...