Thanks man, I was actually under the impression that it was a lab leak until these idiots started claiming it. I just operate under the pretense that literally everything from the right is wrong.
Pre-2020 my social circle consisted almost entirely of libertarians and small-government republicans. After Gulf War II (“they have WMD!”), then Snowden (“we’re not spying on you!”), we came to take it as a given that the government always lies. After all, did you not see the lying to Congress about mass surveillance?
Those same people – many of whom self-identified as “skeptics” – were easy prey for Russian bots
All they had to be told was that the government was lying to them about COVID. It matched the pattern of everything else. 95% of them disappeared into disinfo bubbles and became ring-wraith Trump-enablers. Perhaps 5% kept our eye on objective scientific sources and realized in this case actually the government isn’t lying
For the honestly interested, This Week in Virology did some very thorough episodes deep diving with legit experts.
Exec summary: Definitely from a bushmeat market, not from a lab.
https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/tag/lab-leak/
Most recent:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0GwrI9p7RUY
Thanks man, I was actually under the impression that it was a lab leak until these idiots started claiming it. I just operate under the pretense that literally everything from the right is wrong.
Serves to remind us of our shared humanity.
Pre-2020 my social circle consisted almost entirely of libertarians and small-government republicans. After Gulf War II (“they have WMD!”), then Snowden (“we’re not spying on you!”), we came to take it as a given that the government always lies. After all, did you not see the lying to Congress about mass surveillance?
Those same people – many of whom self-identified as “skeptics” – were easy prey for Russian bots
All they had to be told was that the government was lying to them about COVID. It matched the pattern of everything else. 95% of them disappeared into disinfo bubbles and became ring-wraith Trump-enablers. Perhaps 5% kept our eye on objective scientific sources and realized in this case actually the government isn’t lying