China lab suspected of Covid leak stripped of US funding for violating biosafety rules
China lab suspected of Covid leak stripped of US funding for violating biosafety rules
Wuhan Institute of Virology broke rules with experiments that increased viral activity more than tenfold, says health department
This is stupid. There is just as much evidence it came from Fort Detrick.
For the record I don't think it came from either.
57I don't know why anyone is still talking about a lab outbreak in Wuhan because of the wet market nearby being suspected in mid December, when we know for sure that Covid was in Italy in September/October and possibly as early as May. The world just shrugged at this info because faecal treatment samples aren't as interesting as as bat soup and bioterrorism.
41That’s the thing, the COVID conspiracy people now posting this shirt saying, “SEE!?! IT WAS LAB LEAK!!” as if that justifies every single other insane thing they’ve ever said about COVID. Because there’s a huge difference between “covid CAME FROM a lab” and “lab leak possible origin.” One implies conspiracy, the other implies carelessness. What’s the old saying? ‘Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to greed?’ I very much think the same applies to stupidity—and honestly, in this case, greed probably caused the stupidity. How much funding-slashing has led to calamity in recent times? Plenty.
32I think the lab with a long record of carelessness leaking the virus by accident is entirely plausible if not the most reasonable explanation. The issue is not so much about how/when it was leaked, but more along the lines of how poorly they handled the whole situation and subsequent coverup. For all we know, it could have been leaked by accident way earlier.
17The original saying is "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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Hexbear users coming to defend China before even reading the post title:
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10I am aware that this news article may be misleading. That's not the point of my comment.
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8There's 1000 ways to mock someone for authoritarian policies, and yet people jump to tinting an asian man yellow.
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They're coming in with their alts now. If you check some of the profiles on here, look how often China is mentioned and tell me it's not just obviously Hexbear users with alts
5Its always AdmiralShat, the slickest turd in the West!
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Sup guys. Just commenting here so you can avoid reading the most brainlet of a take below. Hope you all have a good day.
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Looks like lab leak theory is back on the menu boys!
24I feel like i'm taking crazy pills!
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Looks like West is so empty culturally and in terms of development that they have to regurgitate an ancient conspiracy theory debunked hundreds of times. Even that US Nobel awarded doctor who proposed the smoking gun conspiracy theory, himself denied that it was possible from China.
10Damn even the nonpolitical homies are dunking on this one
8What if covid was a terrorist atack on china and iran by obama loyalists? With the aded benefit ithat it put them back in power.
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7Less regulations, it's easier to do "funny stuff" like gain of function research (frankly a euphemism for biological warfare research) in China than in the US. And it's not like the US is just funding the biolab, they have people on site and oversight as well.
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Ah yes, because it's not like there are any geopolitical reasons that might explain why the NIH would want to decouple from China.
Fact is, you can find infractions from any lab. It's just a question of whether you want to look.
6...okay but they started a global pandemic
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Did this thread get nuked? Says there should be 57 comments.
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1Yeah, the US and China were working together on gain of function research of coronavirus in a lab in Wuhan run by Dr Fauci in 2019, but if you mention it you're crazy.
-88No self-respecting scientist concluded that either a natural origin or a lab leak were the definitive cause of the pandemic. This is clear if you actually read scientific literature. It’s why phrases akin to “the most supported hypothesis is X” or “the Y theory is unlikely without more supporting evidence” are used. Both hypotheses were and are still possible explanations.
It’s people who get their scientific info from sources like the Telegraph that keep jumping to conclusions. Or people who don’t understand what a section leader at the NIH does, how research grants work, or what gain of function research is. You know, like yourself.
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18Have they found an animal with a strain related to the human variant? Isn’t that the main evidence they expect to be able to find to help prove it actually had a path from animal to human?
3Source on that claim?
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