Yeah we're not going to war with China but the mechanics of the consent manufacturing are the same.
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Replying to @goodpostguy6465 @mattyglesias and
You’re acting as if the manufactured consensus has been in support of the lab-leak theory. It’s exactly the opposite. That theory got buried for almost a year, dismissed as a fringe theory only Trumpist xenophobes could take seriously.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @mattyglesias and
It got buried for a year because there is no affirmative evidence for it. Still isn't btw.
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There is no affirmative evidence for zoonosis, either.
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The fact that they keep finding extremely similar viruses in bats, and they know that bats are constantly mixing and recombining viruses is important background for this discussion.
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It's not only plausible that a coronavirus could mutate in a bat and become a pandemic, it was the exact outcome that people feared after SARS. It was expected.
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I've heard people scoff and say: What are the odds that some bat in Yunnan Province just happened to spin off the worst pandemic in living memory. And the answer is: Pretty good, actually.
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I'm going to work on a post on this but I think you give Tom Cotton a far more indulgent reading than his words of Feb. 2020 warrant.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias and
“I have no discrete errors to point to but don’t like your take overall, so I’ll be criticizing it at a later date.”
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