Thanks.
It's not really about "making" a virus. The idea is that they were studying it and that it was accidently leaked. There's no way to know this now that China has effectively sabotaged any potential investigation giving insights.
SARS and Swine Flu both spread within the last twenty years, which makes three global pandemics this generation. The supposition that such an event, on average, occurs at certain intervals isn't a good enough reason to reject a hypothesis. Considering the recent boost in this theory by the former CDC director Robert Redfield, CNN's Sanjay Gupta, prominent scientists, it's fair for an independent investigation to at least investigate before dismissing the idea.
It leaking from a lab does not mean that it was "made" in a lab. The latter is the weaponization conspiracy, which I think is what people conflate the current lab leak hypothesis with.
This isn't evidence though. Furthermore, China has already been shown to cover up events to save face, one of those being the SARS pandemic outbreak. Investigations that are bogged down by China are naturally going to be very difficult to handle.
Most actually claim that they don't know, and whatever position minority elements are taking is with low to moderate confidence. The official position is as follows:
I'm sure that there are people who take positions for purely political reasons and may not budge no matter what results comes about.
Warhawks wanna do with China what we did with Iraq.
It's ****ing Cancun Cruz. Who does this surprise? just look at his face, that mofo sweats shamelessness with every day that passes, and every photo of has giant "yeah I'm a POS, so what?" vibes.Once again, Ted Cruz keeps providing us reasons to despise this SOB.
Cruz says Army turning into ‘pansies,’ citing ‘woke’ recruitment ad starring female soldier with two moms
Update at 11 a.m. Wednesday with HRC comment. WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz has accused the Army of projecting an image of “pansies” by featuring a female...www.dallasnews.com
Thumbs: Cancun looking good after Ted Cruz slams ‘emasculated’ Army
The Texas senator claimed the U.S. Army was creating an “emasculated military.”www.houstonchronicle.com
After all the crap he has pulled, he still has no intentions of resigning or retiring anytime soon. Texas is not going to vote him out in 2024 or any time in the near future, and I don’t see the state changing its fascist ways until 2028 at the earliest. The only way that Ted Cruz leaves the Senate is if *this* happens to his brain. If that happens, it would be something to see for sure, as I don't think anyone in the Senate would convict the person who did it, according to Lindsey Graham back in 2016.
There's no excuse for Texas at all for continuing to elect Ted Cruz. Senate elections are held by majority vote, so there are no technicalities to excuse the state here. And just take a look at what the state chose to elect up and down the ballot in the years that have passed since then. Once again, I hope its pro-fascist population rots in the deepest shithole, and decreases the surplus population. Who knows, it may even die out and deliver the rest of the United States from the shame of having Texas as part of the Union.
Oh, and could we please change the thread title to US Politics 2021: Democracy Fights Back, US Politics 2021: Death to QAnon, or something? A new thread or title is really called for, since we are loong past 2017, with a new president and a different Congress, and Covid is a thing. Needless to say, 2021 is a much different game than 2017.
It's not so much that they plotted to weaponize it, so much that it was something prolly on study somehow, but they were cheapstakes and sloppy with containment measures. And we know for a fact that China was heavily incompetent and even shady in how it handled the whole issue of COVID, and even the mask stuff, etc, etc. Basically even if they didn't use it as a weapon, China failed bigly on controlling and it's done enormous damage to their international image. What's most likely to come if anything out of any "it came from a lab" report is pretty much cold-era style politics of shaming the other to death.
Nope.