See the recent N Wade piece about the lab leak hypothesis What was the system doing? In one sense box ticking - the system needs to be thought of as serious so it funds some research that it can plausibly describe as being done to "prevent pandemics"https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038 …
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The output existed - papers that were shiny and *peer reviewed* so the reddit tier people can bark like seals about *peer review*. At the same time, it created a stifling "consensus" in the field to *never question the logic of doing that research in the first place*.
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Anyone who did risked getting cut off from grants and out of science and then that person isn't a brave scientist but an outside crank. The system was doing something insane but had to protect it because it couldn't think because to think throws the whole system into question.
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Once the pandemic was unleashed it turns out that there was another "consensus" - based on absolutely nothing at all (so they claim) but actually based on the same needs of protecting the system - the idea that "closing borders doesn't work to stop disease transmission".
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Of course that idea is fundamentally *insane* if the germ theory of disease is correct - if infected people don't cross borders, then infections don't spread but the "consensus" opposed it.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/ski-party-pandemic-travel-coronavirus.html …
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How would "open borders fight disease"? Truly a baffling prospect but one *necessary* for the the system - that there is no downside the things the system needs and wants. It only has to consider expert opinion and it owns all the experts - disagree and you're not an expert.
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