• jeffw@lemmy.world
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    It borders on a conspiracy. I will never stop repeating this:

    Theory 1, a conspiracy: it was designed in a lab as a bio-weapon. this is the one the GOP usually pushes

    Theory 2, plausible theory: accidental transmission to a human during a study

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      More importantly it was a racist dog whistle used to distract from the incompetence and greed of politicians handling a crisis. It directly led to violent hate crimes.

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      Theory 3, it was used in an attempt to distract from the war in Ukraine by the Russians and much like everything the Russians do, it blew the fuck up in their face and we were all caught in collateral damaged.

      Think about it. who directly benefited the most from covid? wasn’t China, they lost trillions in trade. wasn’t the US, they lost in trade and world trust(which was accomplished by a now known Russian asset.).

      that’s also a good point, who benefits by a weakened US? Russia. who was providing the most support against Russia at the time? US.

      I have zero evidence of it, but I think it’s pretty clear at least who benefited the most from it.

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          What’s weird about the mental gymnastics is that a respiratory virus pandemic is the risk factor of the century. It was a probability of 100% that this would end up happening, the only question was when and where.

          But people will take the numerous calls to caution that were issued in the decades prior, and use them as proofs that something shady went on. What can you do …

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          pandemics don’t just happen like covid happened.

          three months before covid spread to the US the Trump administration closed down the CDC attache in China that would have been the first response to an outbreak. three months.

          covid was first identified as a mysterious flu about 30 days after the US offices were closed.

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            Yeah, they actually do. The Spanish Flu is a pretty great example. It just happens that the main form of transoceanic travel took long enough that people were easier to quarantine. And it still caused as much death as it did. Pandemics like Covid haven’t happened before but they’ve been predicted for decades. When you can cross the entire earth in less than 48hrs, all it’s going to take is the right virus to show up. Covid was particularly good at transmitting in that way, because it has a long asymptomatic infectious period both before and after the symptomatic phase. Especially if you compare it to the og SARS-CoV-1, which didn’t spread as readily across oceans and borders.

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            The trump administration closed a million things. They’ve closed a million more in the past 6 months. Did FEMA cutbacks CAUSE the flooding in Texas? No. Did it make it worse? Sure.

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              can any country in the world make it rain? no

              can any country in the world release a deadly pathogen to cause chaos and confusion? yes.

              my point isn’t the actual closure, it’s the visibility of risk mitigation.

              what’s your point?

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                If you throw 2 million darts, eventually you get one bullseye. A coincidence is not evidence

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                  by that logic Trump won the election fair and square. there’s no evidence he cheated or colluded with Russian intelligence.

                  also Epstein killed himself because coincidences aren’t evidence. also trump wasn’t friends with Epstein because it was sheer coincidence he was at all the same parties, which as you state doesn’t count as evidence.

                  while we’re at it, god exists, the tooth fairy is real, and unicorns roam the earth. just because the evidence they don’t exist doesn’t exist doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

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                    Are you implying there’s no evidence of COVID lol? It’s literally been analyzed and PROVEN that it was not a virus designed by man