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>>option+(OP)
I’m trying to piece together how any of this makes sense.

The implication is that Covid was a biological weapon accidentally released? Wouldn’t this be a pretty idiotic biological weapon? An especially bad one for a heavily urbanized country to release? Not to mention the main outcome of this “weapon” would be hurt China’s top importers?

>>throwa+Y5
Let me spell it out: China was knowingly playing with fire - conducting gain-of-function experiments on humanized mice and coronaviruses. This research may or may not be weaponizable, but China was willing to try.

Unlike the US where a moratorium was put in place from 2014 to late 2017 after IIRC a National Academies report (the moratorium was lifted after setting up stricter controls, and no, it had nothing to do with the orange one).

Most likely, it was an accidental release.