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by EasyMark 754 days ago
I doubt if many people (especially now) dispute it could have been manmade. The point was that one party that shall remain nameless was saying 100% that it was a Chinese conspiracy to create a biological weapon and it either leaked or was released intentionally. It was stated as a fact; not as a theory or as possibility but a verified fact, and it was and still is not. Fauci and others felt, given what they knew at the time it was likely natural in origin, and we’ve had similar in the past, in particular Spanish Flu. The “Chi-na” theory was sold hand in hand with the “5G deep state poison” vaccine theories and that’s why most people wanted that stuff off social media. And that was okay, because SM is owned by private entities and in the USA you are allowed to control what is on your platform (at least for now). I was on team wait-and-see where the evidence leads, but I’ve never been worried about vaccines or the FDA process for it. I was never for forced injections either by government or corporate mandates. I’m not sure why people are so ready to jump to extremes rather than see where evidence leads, I have a deep suspicion of anyone who serves up “facts” before there is any evidence.