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Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by disambiguation on Sunday January 26, 2025 @10:31AM (#42830690)
"Why" because of all the latent anger and frustration from the mass death and pain of the pandemic. Its naive to underestimate it. How it unfolds, think WWI reparations from Germany.

"Cover it up anyway" pretty much. There's precedent for this, we never got the full truth about 9/11 either. To this day the 100 page dossier is off limits to the public, probably for similar reasoning. The USA wants to play the board opportunistically without regard for justice or public outrage. And then people wonder why the public feels abandoned by their government.

Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by VMG on Monday January 27, 2025 @05:40AM (#42839550)
> "Why" because of all the latent anger and frustration from the mass death and pain of the pandemic. Its naive to underestimate it. How it unfolds, think WWI reparations from Germany.

Why is a lab outbreak worse than a wet market outbreak?

Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by disambiguation on Monday January 27, 2025 @11:46AM (#42843007)
The same reason arson is worse than a wild fire.
Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by VMG on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:17PM (#42844581)
Arson implies intent, leak does not
Re:CIA Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid's Origins by disambiguation on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:52PM (#42844937)
Intent is a good word, and the right question. What's the intent of a bio security lab? What's the intent of gain of function research?

Some say the intent of a firearm is self defense, as the intent of a nuclear bomb is a deterrent.

Finally, what role does intent play in the poker world championship?

And for record of the court, arson by negligence is a criminal offense.