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Yes, it was."Like the Barrington Declaration...which in hindsight was the proper course.
No, it wasn't.
Wow, being @espola is easy!
Yes, it was."Like the Barrington Declaration...which in hindsight was the proper course.
No, it wasn't.
My response was at the same level of thought as the statement to which I was responding.
How many complicit, powerful people would it take to keep that under wraps? They would have had to have kept it from Trump as he gladly would have shared this information. We had many in the US aware of the research in that lab, and it had NIH funding. I don't see how it's kept under wraps and how it goes from a mutual research project to a Chinese government-led bioweapons production.The whole thing makes more sense if you assume that most national governments believed it is an escaped bioweapon, but were unwilling to say so.
This especially helps explain why the Chinese response was so severe. From the Chinese perspective, covid was a domestically produced bioweapon, and therefore better.
If you want to mention the Aussie response, remember to ask whether it worked. Did Australia actually end up with fewer deaths per capita than the US or Europe?How many complicit, powerful people would it take to keep that under wraps? They would have had to have kept it from Trump as he gladly would have shared this information. We had many in the US aware of the research in that lab, and it had NIH funding. I don't see how it's kept under wraps and how it goes from a mutual research project to a Chinese government-led bioweapons production.
The Aussie response - a free and democratic society - was not far from the Chinese government's response. China does what China does. They are ruthless autocrats with a history of "disappearing" citizens at the government's whim.
Also, it's a terrible misjudgment to imagine that approach is a good idea. If anything, the truth would have given more support to pressure China through sanctions, etc.
This assumption doesn't make more sense to me than this. COVID escaped from the Chinese lab while doing gain-of-function research that the US closely supported. The close involvement of our government and specific people in power who were overseeing this research would have painted them in a damning light. So, they chose to misdirect using the wet market theory. After the escape, the handling of COVID worldwide exposed people for what they are as difficult times do.
If you want to mention the Aussie response, remember to ask whether it worked. Did Australia actually end up with fewer deaths per capita than the US or Europe?
No fair counting just one side of the ledger.
Checked who out? Australia? Over the last 3 years, they have had less than 1/4 as many covid deaths per capita as the US.ahhh yes, but have you checked them out lately? We will never be done with covid and data remains to be gathered. The aussies had their highest death rates in 22 from covid....trying to figure that one out. They fully bought into lockdowns and mandates, some of the most draconian in the free world yet here they are, dying from a less severe strain.
So wondering what you think worked? That a rather healthy population did really well in the face of a crazy new respiratory virus? Sure, they did really good, especially pre vaccine. mandates and vaccines that were relatively effective against early variants also played well in their favor.
The US..well, we are rather unhealthy, and paid the price (probably still paying). lack of thoughtful geriatric care also hurt us. Nuance is a thing and the covid story isn't done yet. Even though plenty of officials wanted to make you think it was/is going to be over. Remember that one time the CDC told you it was impossible for a vaccinated person to carry the virus, and then that was parroted by the
i stayed at a Holiday Inn" crowd as truth.
Not sure what that has to do with your initial argument that governments knew that COVID was a Chinese-created biological weapon but refused to make it public and this explains the Chinese government's severe response. Remember, this is what I was responding to below. Are you abandoning this argument?If you want to mention the Aussie response, remember to ask whether it worked. Did Australia actually end up with fewer deaths per capita than the US or Europe?
No fair counting just one side of the ledger.
The whole thing makes more sense if you assume that most national governments believed it is an escaped bioweapon, but were unwilling to say so.
This especially helps explain why the Chinese response was so severe. From the Chinese perspective, covid was a domestically produced bioweapon, and therefore better.
I was responding to your point comparing Australia’s response to China’s.Not sure what that has to do with your initial argument that governments knew that COVID was a Chinese-created biological weapon but refused to make it public and this explains the Chinese government's severe response. Remember, this is what I was responding to below. Are you abandoning this argument?
I thought maybe you had a reliable source.I was responding to your point comparing Australia’s response to China’s.
Your point on a vast conspiracy to keep a secret? We had POTUS discussing WIV origins in news conferences and calling it ”the Wuhan flu”. It wasn’t a secret at all.
The argument is strongest for a Chinese belief that it was a bioweapon. China very quickly turned from “nothing to see here“ to locking down whole cities. That’s not what you do if you think it is just avian flu.
I see. You are identifying what was done at the lab as bioweapon research instead of gain-of-function research, as I am assuming. That's a significant distinction as it drags the US into not only dangerous gain-of-function virus research but also adds the intent of weaponizing the virus. Maybe you are correct. That is plausible. However, I still don't understand how that explains the need to lie, mislead and censor questions and facts regarding the results of the virus. It was obvious early on who was at risk, and a large portion of the population did not face significant risk - whether it was an intended bioweapon or not.I was responding to your point comparing Australia’s response to China’s.
Your point on a vast conspiracy to keep a secret? We had POTUS discussing WIV origins in news conferences and calling it ”the Wuhan flu”. It wasn’t a secret at all.
The argument is strongest for a Chinese belief that it was a bioweapon. China very quickly turned from “nothing to see here“ to locking down whole cities. That’s not what you do if you think it is just avian flu.
Remember the rush to get people vaxxed? No long term studies. We were told they were safe. Funny how more and more concerns are coming up.Let's review. We initially took what we were told about the vaccine to be accurate. 68% of us got "fully vaccinated" ie the two doses for Moderna and Pfizer or one dose JJ. Then the majority of us got Covid post-vaccination (variant, schmariant). We also experienced that for healthy American's Covid was a mild cold to a bad flu. The only people dying we're significantly compromised, the same population that was vulnerable to dying from the flu. We also saw with our eyes that the vaccine provided negligible, if any, protection from getting infected or preventing transmission and that the vaccination was not durable. The result? Only 33% of the population have received at least one booster.
The biggest fact we experienced was that kids were not vulnerable to any negative impacts from Covid. The result? 32% of 5-12 year olds received two shots and only 11% of those 6 mo to 4 yo have received one shot.
The people have spoken based upon what they actually experienced, not based upon what they were told by talking heads promoting a narrative or some cherry-picked "scientific study" promoted by the same.