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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Covid's True Origins
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:33:04 -0700
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On Sun, 20 Apr 2025 18:48:12 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

>On 4/19/2025 12:08 PM, john larkin wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Apr 2025 11:44:53 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 4/18/2025 7:52 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>>> This report would never have seen the light of day if Joe Biden still
>>>> occupied the Big Chair....
>>>>
>>>> https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/lab-leak-white-house-unveils-massive-report-true-origins-covid-19
>>>
>>> LOL imagine how much it sucks to be whomever has to write 557 pages of
>>> nonsense for the benefit of kooks who won't read it, anyway.
>>>
>>> "ZeroHedge launched our premium service - and more recently, the ZH
>>> Store, where loyal readers routinely cause us to sell out of hats,
>>> shirts, knives, and the unsurprisingly popular ZeroHedge multitool"
>>>
>>> Sold to citizens who have a good dose of
>>> main-character-in-their-own-movie syndrome.
>>>
>>> "Moychendizing. Where the real money from the movie is made!"
>>>
>>> <https://youtu.be/fgRFQJCHcPw?si=5LDR_eT9pKaVAvMj&t=41>
>> 
>> Do you use hats, shirts, knives, or tools? Probably not.
>> 
>> Do you think the covid epidemic just coincidentally started within
>> walking distance of the Wuhan bat virus research lab? Probably so.
>
>
>So I'm supposed to believe the proximal cause was a lab leak not only of 
>a known-dangerous virus, but very likely a _genetically engineered_ and 
>weaponized virus designed by an antagonistic foreign power...

It hit Chinese people, and wrecked the Chinese economy, so it wasn't
any useful sort of weapon. It was a lab mistake.

It's not the first nasty virus brewed in a lab that had bad protocols.

>
>...and simultaneously the correct response for American leadership was 
>to do _nothing_? Let that plausible rogue bio-weapon "rip" through 
>society, don't have lock downs or implement any fashion of civil 
>defense, and just ensure the restaurants stay open at all costs?

I recall a lot of stuff being done. Lockdowns, distancing, masking
several vaccines developed.