https://hexbear.net/post/114618

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  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Because the origin of the virus is still unknown, and learning the truth requires entertaining possibilities and investigating them.

    • WalrusPooPooPaDo [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      You realize it's going to be the United States "intelligence community" doing this investigating right, like practically speaking

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I realize that any public calls for investigations related to China would be fraught and simply used as cover for imperial meddling, which is why I would tread carefully if I was an authority figure with any kind of broad public audience, and would probably avoid the world altogether.

        I was speaking hypothetically/philosophically about the necessity for looking down all avenues. The reason I entertain these ideas personally is because I'm very curious about the virus. I'm a scientist, I can't help myself.

      • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        There's a difference between acknowledging the possibility that it came from a lab and asserting that as a fact. Probably the best way to do the former while countering the propaganda angle is to say that when you mean it might have come from a lab, you're talking about a U.S. lab.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Did they say it was fact, or a possibility that we shouldn't poo poo (pig poo?)

    • Arkhamasylumresident [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Sounds like hysterics to me. Everything so far points to this being a spillover from an animal and animalistic in its entire origin.

      Unless some credible source says otherwise I’m not going to worry about any other small possible point of origin.