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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by oneshtein on Sunday January 26, 2025 @12:24AM (#42827928)
It's not about nature. It's about biological weapons. If Russians will create a new biological weapon (they do), then we must have a cure before they will use it in their fight with NATO. And they will use it even if millions of their own citizens will die.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by throwaway290 on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:03AM (#42828081)
> It's not about nature. It's about biological weapons. If Russians will create a new biological weapon (they do), then we must have a cure before they will use it in their fight with NATO.

And the best solution is to research this... in China?

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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by oneshtein on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:17AM (#42828135)
Yep, another continent from the home is the best place for such kind of research.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by throwaway290 on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:26AM (#42828166)
If you want to research a cure from engineered virus from one hostile country, paying another hostile country to do virus engineering research for you is surely great logic.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by oneshtein on Sunday January 26, 2025 @02:21AM (#42828397)
China was not a hostile country in 2014, before Russians started the war.
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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by theptip on Sunday January 26, 2025 @12:26PM (#42831791)
I’m pretty sure there is funding on both sides; NIH vs DARPA for example. I suspect that NIH funds a lot more here and I’m skeptical that DARPA funds labs in China for this.

The experiments WIV were doing were specifically targeted at identifying wild-type viruses that could cross over. This is not where you would start for a bioweapon. (Unless, tinfoil hat, you want to start a pandemic that looks like a zoonotic event. But that’s not the threat model the US military is worried about in the research they fund.)

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