Accidents happen. Even if it was a lab accident, it's not a reason to be outraged with the Chinese government.
I think in parallel to searching for the origin, they should also look into the reports that Chinese government tried to hid it under the carpet and only admitting that it couldn't control it after it was already spread all over the world.
That's the real crime of the Chinese government in regards to Covid and that's what people should be outraged about.
But yeah, good luck getting an unbiased report on that.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-bans-zero-hedge-coronav...
Not sure what said statements were, but as described, that is not at all a reason to ban someone. On the internet, legitimate criticism very frequently leads to harassment. That is not at all the fault of the critic, and as long as they didn't intend to cause harassment, it's no reason to ban them.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
Coincidentally, the local Communist Party also placed the blame on meat from the local farmers' market.
Oh, yes it is.
It would be 'manslaughter' on a mass scale.
The largest ever seen.
If this were due to their negligence, then millions of dead, 10's of millions out of work, Trillions in lost productivity is unavoidably consequential.
It would be the worst 'accident' in human history and the responsibility would be squarely on their shoulders.
If you're experimenting with bombs and you blow up all your neighbours homes by accident - that's manslaughter, a very serious crime.
The geopolitical fallout would be unimaginable.
Almost all pandemics started in China in the history, apperantly habitat is suitable for that. You knew that but still play with deadly viruses there, then accidently it spreads and you try to cover up and make it worse and cause millions of deaths. Fair mistake, it is an accident!
If it is originated from a lab, I think people should not find out this. I’m not sure. It will trigger some feelings against China, hopefully it won’t turn into something racist.
Wait and be killed.
Agreed! Whatever did cause COVID-19, the outbreak was made worse by a lack of transparency by the CCP. It seems like no matter what, the WHO report is unlikely to discuss that much. Which is a shame, because with more transparency into what happened we would be better able to stop the next COVID-19 from happening.
If the US was directly involved in establishing safety procedures, then yes, that would be something.
But by and large, this is a China problem.
I doubt we will never know the answer.
If Trump had any kind of material evidence, he would have used it. Team Biden would be super strategic about it, I have no idea how they would communicate the intelligence. They would be wary of the populist consequences.
In a weird way, it might be better if we never found out that was true.
It really is though. If you're going to experiment with viruses that can be lethal to humans, you'd better have a damn good set of safety protocols so they don't get out. If you can't do that, don't experiment on the viruses. Given the infectiousness, there are even theories they were experimenting with making it more virulent.
There are almost 3,000,000 deaths globally. That's equivalent to launching a Little Boy at a city the size of Hiroshima every day for 42 days. It's a third of the number of soldiers who died in WW1.
There is no conceivable way that this could be declared an "oopsie" moment. This is a colossal fuck up, even by international scales.
It has nothing to do with it specifically being China. If it was the EU, I'd be pissed at them too. Lab leaks aren't particularly uncommon, which is a problem basically everywhere. I'm concerned that Russia is allegedly messing around with anthrax, but at least they seem to be able to keep it in their labs. I would prefer that no-one in the world was working on biological weapons, but I think that's a pipedream.
SARS escaped Beijing lab twice
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/
The diplomats and scientists were worried about the safety of the lab's research on coronaviruses in animals like bats as early as January 2018.
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-officials-raised-alarms-a...
We are living in a strange world where a very plausible theory is considered as conspiracy.