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by p2detar 22 hours ago
> China can at least so far be relied upon to not shoot itself in the foot

We still don't know where and how Covid came to be, so no - hard disagree.

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We do well enough. It either happened naturally, or less likely due to a lab accident. If there is a cover up it is to hide incompetence.
I have read the WHO [0] report and the conclusion is "possibly to likely" about the zoonotic origin of Covid, so no there isn't conclusive report how it came to be.

> If there is a cover up it is to hide incompetence.

Which is my point to GP's "reliable" argument. China is not reliable and has its own interests at play just like the US or any other state for that matter, regardless of its international partnerships. It does want to project itself as "reliable" - that I can't deny.

0 - https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-...

Yes we do. We also (despite theories stating the contrary) know that the current climate change is caused by us burning too many fossil fuels, that the utility of vaccines preventing deadly diseases outweighs any rare side effects, that airlines are not involved in a secret conspiracy of releasing chemicals (all airlines at the same time and only in certain meteorological conditions), and that the earth is roughly spherical.