>>nnx+(OP)
> One problem with the lab leak theory is that it presumes the Chinese are lying or hiding facts, a position incompatible with a joint scientific effort.
LOLOLOLOL Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor. Doesn’t the default assumption about an authoritarian government have to be that it is lying and hiding facts that would harm it?
>>djroge+ab1
There's no need to talk about assumptions. The WHO suppressed evidence of the disease at the behest of PRC. The WHO fortunately finds itself in the convenient position where "Trump's wrong" makes a right. But an impartial WHO investigation and a forthright Chinese disclosure are two things I would never use as bases for understanding what happened.