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>>pseudo+(OP)
I'm trying to keep an open mind about things, but I just find is so suspicious that the articles blaming China for Covid get upvoted so enthusiastically that people forget to post in the first 10 minutes before they hit the front page.

I'm not trying to reject any hypothesis but I do reject the fervor. And then people come out of the woodwork and try to defend the Wuhan Lab as the source with a load of coincidences that trend to conspiratorial thoughts. Like how we only know of a related Covid strain in bat hundreds of miles away from Wuhan... but bats are not endemic to just Yunnan where the closest Covid-19 match was from. Does Wuhan not have bats?

>>unders+72
HN tends to upvote counternarratives. The Wuhan lab leak hypothesis was dismissed as either "debunked" or "discredited" in the mainstream media early, but now is considered possible, or even likely.

>>ErikVa+r2
Upvotes are free. HN has been upvoting this theory since the beginning.