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Re:The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, bu... by WillPostForFood on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:45PM (#27397434)
There is circumstantial evidence for a lab leak, and there is circumstantial evidence for the wet market. That's fair, but somehow the wet market was accepted as truth for the last year, and the lab leak was treated as a crazy conspiracy. We don't know the truth, China is blocking access to look into the facts.
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Re:The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, bu... by Justin_K on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:02PM (#27397668)
To me, it's an act of guilt when CCP won't cooperate with the international community and is withholding crucial details.
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Re:The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, bu... by Filligree on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:04PM (#27397692)
The CCP habitually does that, so it doesn’t add much information one way or the other.
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Re:The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, bu... by waterhouse on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:30PM (#27398042)
True. However, they should bear consequences for such behavior. Being treated as guilty for covering things up seems like a reasonably appropriate consequence.
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Re:The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, bu... by Filligree on Saturday June 05, 2021 @02:18PM (#27407363)
There should be consequences, I agree.

I would strongly disagree that the consequences should involve us biasing our own map of the world. I'm sure we can find some solution that doesn't involve spreading probable falsehoods.

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Re:The lab-leak origin claim for Covid-19 is in the news, bu... by YouthfulMarxism on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:22PM (#27397939)
In all possibilities it was a major case of criminal ignorance and negligence towards major epidemic source by the chinese political and medical officiaries. Which resulted in multitrillion damages and hundreds of thousands of excess deaths at the scale of the whole planet.

And instead of transparency, investigation, apologies and reforms what we will get after another cup of nationalistic lies is Taiwan war.

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