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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Fauci backtracked all his previous lies about the lab leak being a conspiracy theory https://youtu.be/AqYZw1TNFZ4?t=1m38s

UsRighttoknow found evidence that a US company outsourced virus research that described covid19 to the Wuhan Lab.

Of course it's no surprise that the Wuhan Lab of Virology is responsible for the outbreak of a virus right next to it. But hey that Pangolin wet market story sounds so funny let's keep repeating it.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

wtf is a fauci and what kind of source is a youtube video.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The doctor who led America through Covid as official presidential advisor. And the one responsible for lab leak being called a conspiracy theory.

Him backtracking on lab leak says everything.

For the leak documents see https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/scientists-proposed-making-viruses-with-unique-features-of-sars-cov-2-in-wuhan/

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is so dumb. We'll never know exactly but from what we do the initial infections don't convincingly point to workers from the lab, genetic evidence suggests zoonautic origins are probable, there is no proof either way. The Chinese government isn't allowing an audit, and by this point it's too late anyway.

There is no reason to believe it's likely. Let alone certain. It's literally just "China, who the usaians call red china, is uncooperative" and "there's a lab studying Coronavirus's in a region with lots of them"

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

You just got linked proof.

Even the person who gaslighted the world into believing lab leak was a conspiracy, has backtracked it last month. You just saw the video

Just accept that the government lied.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What government? what are you fucking on about? I don't give a shit about political games in some hick filled military cult if you're talking about the evil empire.

There is zero evidence sars2 came from a lab, zero. Something being technically possible is not the same as it being likely.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The American government.

https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/scientists-proposed-making-viruses-with-unique-features-of-sars-cov-2-in-wuhan/

Consider reading the article instead of responding without ever reading anything. You just don't want to see the evidence.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah nobody who wrote that article or edited it understands virology and neither do you. This is not evidence.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago

Yeah sure bro you're a medical expert. You know all about pangolins and bats I'm sure of it.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Idk how to explain epistemology to you. This whole yeah yeah cleavage sites spike protein blah blah you gotta ask. Why were people proposing investigating that? Oh because they were anticipating viruses like that would be highly infectious and could emerge.

Coincidences actually do happen, how many proposed researches into coronaviruses don't match sars 2? Why don't initial cases line up with what we know of where lab workers lived and travelled? why is there no testimony relating to the lab work? scientists have souls you know.

Viruses jump species, novel mutations happen. Everyone was expecting a Coronavirus pandemic and guess what? In a completely predictable fashion we got one.

You can't just put red string between every vaguely cooincidental thing and conclude something. That'll have you going bonkers.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah they just so happened to research a Corona variant in a lab in Wuhan right where the outbreak happened that matched Covid.

And now Fauci is walking back his claims about lab leak being a conspiracy.

But people have bought into his gaslighting so much that even when the person who did the gaslighting starts backtracking they are already fully bought in.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

That research never went ahead you moron. Look I'm done, go huf petrol somewhere else