China Covid lab leaks lose another one

[15round]

The woke congress in 2020 and 2021 along with the US government hid this from the American people.

[GhostofDempsey]

Remember when we were all called racists, xenophobes, and conspiracy nuts for suggesting it was a virus developed in a lab? Fauci denied gain of function research. It was just a bat in a market place. Nothing to see here.

Good article discussing this…

For years, the media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as one of three possibilities: conspiracy theorist or racists or racist conspiracy theorists.

Academics joined this chorus in marginalizing anyone raising the theory. cited the theory as an example of “anti-Chinese racism” and “toxic white masculinity.”

, the New York Times’ Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli was calling any mention of the lab theory as “racist.”

She embodies the model of the new “advocacy journalism” at the Times. Reporters who remained wedded to the dated view of objective journalism were purged from the ranks of The Times long ago.

Mandavilli and others made clear that reporters covering the theory were COVID’s little Bull Connors. She tweeted wistfully “someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here.”

Others in academia quickly joined the bandwagon to assure the public that there is no scientific basis for their theory, leaving only racist or politics as the motivation behind the theory. In early 2020, with little available evidence, two op-eds in in February and went all-in on the denial front.

The Lancet op-ed stated, “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that Covid-19 does not have a natural origin.”

We were also supposed to forget about massive payments from the Chinese government to American universities and grants of some of these writers to both Chinese interests or even the specific .

No reference to the lab theory was to be tolerated. When Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) merely mentioned the possibility in 2020, he was set upon by the usual flash media mob. The Washington Post ridiculed him of repeating a “.”

In September 2020, Dr. Li-Meng Yan, a virologist and former postdoctoral fellow at the University of Hong Kong, dared to repeat the theory on Fox News, saying, “I can present solid scientific evidence . . . [that] it is a man-made virus created in the lab.” The left-leaning and gave her a “pants on fire rating.”

President Joe ***** accused Trump of fanning racism in his criticism of the Chinese government over the pandemic and his Administration shutdown the State Department investigation into the possible lab origins of the virus.

When ***** later revived an investigation into the origins, he was denounced as “.”

The media guaranteed that we did not have a full debate over the origins of the virus and attacked those who had the temerity to state the obvious that there was a plausible basis for suspecting the Wuhan lab.

None of this has diminished demands for more censorship. Even after Twitter admitted that it wrongly blocked The New York Post story before the 2020 election, ********ic senators responded by warning the company not to cut back on censorship and even demanded more .

Recently, the Twitter Files revealed an extensive and secret FBI effort to censor citizens on social media.

This included by members like Rep. Adam Schiff (D., Cal.) to get Twitter to ban a columnist and target critics. In a House hearing, ********ic leaders like Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md). called for more censorship and opposed investigations into the censorship efforts.

These same figures in politics and media are just moving on to the next approved narrative.

previously called for more censorship and accused Big Tech of “killing people” by not censoring more views deemed “COVID misinformation.”

The opposite is true. By suppressing alternative scientific and policy views, the public was denied a full debate over mask efficacy, side effects, COVID origins and other important issues.

[B.UTLER]

The bigger question is what will the world do? Can they make China trillions of dollars? Somehow I see China will just lie and deny which they've been good at..

[Left Hook Tua]

US needs to make a show of force.

Something small but won't harm any Chinese ppl.

I say just bomb the 3 gorges dam and call it even.

[kara]

US needs to make a show of force.

Something small but won't harm any Chinese ppl.

I say just bomb the 3 gorges dam and call it even.

or close down PF Changs!

[Left Hook Tua]

or close down PF Changs!

Agreed.

bomb 3 gorges dam and shut down pf changs.

Then we square.

[15round]

The countries who owe China could take it off the debt. Whatever each country spent on Covid issues would be reimbursed by China in cash or debt reductions.

[Left Hook Tua]

The countries who owe China could take it off the debt. Whatever each country spent on Covid issues would be reimbursed by China in cash or debt reductions.

How many millions of Chinese will die and suffer because of this debt relief?

[15round]

How many millions of Chinese will die and suffer because of this debt relief?

It wouldn't be in one year. Debt reductions would be over many years.

AND CHINA WILL NOT HAVE THAT GUILT HANGING OVER THEM IF THEY REPAY FOR THEIR MISTAKE. ALL THE COUNTRIES WOULD BE DOING THEM A FAVOR SO THEY CAN SLEEP NIGHTS WITH NO GUILT.

[Left Hook Tua]

It wouldn't be in one year. Debt reductions would be over many years.

AND CHINA WILL NOT HAVE THAT GUILT HANGING OVER THEM IF THEY REPAY FOR THEIR MISTAKE. ALL THE COUNTRIES WOULD BE DOING THEM A FAVOR SO THEY CAN SLEEP NIGHTS WITH NO GUILT.

Sounds complicated.

Just keep it simple.

Bomb the 3 gorges dam and blockade the country from food shipments.

Easy peasy.