"finally"? This was put out in the state department Jan 2021, 2.5 years ago: https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan...

> The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses.

Yep the parent comment is correct, is was censored all over social and mainstream media.

The fact that a broken clock is right once a day doesn’t change the fact that it’s still a broken clock, and after being identified as such doesn’t get to claim oppression after rightfully being relegated to the garbage bin.

The same people who asserted things about the origins of covid were the same as those peddling quack “cures” to church groups and reposting Q anon memes.

With respect to your follow up, as much as I would like to see the former president punished for his lies, misleading statements, and general scientific incompetence, I don’t think that’s in the spirit of the First Amendment.

Well, we also said masks and lockdowns don't work and that the vaccines are dangerous and useless. So that right there is 5-0 for us crackpots. I goddamn relish the taste of victory. Yes, I knew better than all of you and I kept my family safe and sane.

I do wonder what the survival rate of a 5x boosted, sun, dietary fat and colesterol avoiding, queer, terminally online, city dwelling mainstream following sheep that's cutting itself over climate change anxiety has to be but it can't be good. I am sorry, we tried to warn you but you like self-important suffering more than knowing the truth.

If that terminally online person was vaccinated against covid, they were far less likely to die than the terminally online conspiracy of the week anti vax crowd.

Your comment just shows that you are still deeply caught in the propaganda. I wonder how you and people like you will psychologically cope when you'll inevitably learn the truth over the next decades.

It's one thing to be wrong, it happens to all of us, but quite an other to literally believe the opposite of the truth and be so smug, superior and self-righteous about it.

Huh? What got censored on social media was the idea that this was an engineered bioweapon. This isn't even the same lab people were pointing fingers at.

>Given statements to congress by government officials that would contradict this conclusion, will there be repercussions for misleading the public, lawmakers and the scientific community?

Laws are created to control the poor, else mostly will find a way to twist it. https://files.catbox.moe/pkkzal.jpeg

I recall reading credible scientists talking about a lab leak from day one, and I always considered it a possibility. Yet many of the people pushing it on social media were pushing it as a 100% certainty and even that it was some kind of intentional bio-weapon attack. The people getting banned for this were conspiritainment grifters and people pushing fascist politics.

The most effective way to cover something up is to have Alex Jones and Steve Bannon talk about it. If Fauci really is running some horrible conspiracy maybe he's paying these people to talk about it to make sure nobody takes the idea seriously.

Then there were the people pushing the Ukraine bioweapons nonsense, which is a transparent Russian attempt to copy Bush II's "WMDs in Iraq" bullshit.

You see... a grain of truth. Yes, in the very beginning is was allowed, but come May and June, it was verboten.

The best nonsense has grains of truth here and there. Makes it go down easier. The problem is that whatever truth is there is used to sell a larger agenda.

I do wish we could just rationally discuss things. It’s getting harder and harder to do that without everything being weaponized.

Yes, the barrage of downvoting on this thread on both sides is mindnumbing. Upvoting wherever I can to balance out the insanity