[somewhereoutth]

Much as we'd like to believe 'bad people' made this Covid disaster happen, in fact it was us. Firstly by encroaching on the habitat of wild animals in search of more resources to exploit, and secondly by our failure to control the virus once it emerged. We did this.

Note that no new evidence is presented here, only that some scientists thought it might have leaked from the Wuhan lab. Some other scientists then suggested it would be unhelpful to debate that conjecture.

As it was, the Wuhan lab possibility was aired at length in the media, and many experts concluded that the origin was almost surely completely natural (in the sense of not from a lab).

[natvert]

The point is that scientific discussion and debate was shut down by some of the most powerful scientists in the country. The disaster is not COVID and it is not the source of COVID. The problem is the lack of free discussion and inquiry.

[cyanydeez]

Careful, believing things isn't the same as knowing, demonstrating and documenting