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The West can't stop the virus because it has sooo much freedom!
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OoOoOOoOoh what if the virus came from an spooky chinese lab
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The chinese support their government (y'know the one that saved them from the virus while the west is still letting millions die a year later) therefore they are brainwashed
"Could a spiralling outbreak of infection that almost destroyed Wuhan's health system, sparked the world's first Covid lockdown and spawned a global catastrophe really have arrived on imported food without any signs of similarly devastating outbreaks elsewhere?"
FFS. There were signs of outbreaks elsewhere, they were just chalked up to a nasty cold and flu year. No one was looking for a SARS outbreak outside of Asia. We only started looking for it in the US a month after China found it, and it was already here in people who didn't travel to China.
Study Suggests Covid-19 Was In The U.S. Weeks Earlier Than Thought, Before First Public Cases In China
The last season of Rake actually predicted this. An Australian ice cream company was selling out to a Chinese manufacturer and the new owners were discontinuing the most popular product (AusRipple).
Everyone was losing their minds and it almost started an international incident until someone sat down with the PM and told him that the colorings in the ice cream were actually from pesticides and trace amounts of uranium. They had to discontinue it because China's Health Ministry actually checks for that stuff lol.