All the major spy rings were broken by Verona. By the time of Truman's loyalty oaths and McCarthyism all you had was security theatre (not unlike post-9/11) for an overwhelmingly phantom threat.
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Yes. Thank God no one is saying: "Bioweapon, & to trick us they tried it out first on their own city to gain plausible deniability! & they were able to suppress it so quickly because they have the antidote, & are keeping it secret!"
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Tom Cotton came close to that:https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1229202139232292866 …
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Yes, very different. But I don't think anyone in this thread (afaict just from scrolling back through it) has suggested it was a deliberately made bioweapon, and certainly none of the scientists calling for further investigation seem to be suggesting that.
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what's authoritarianism got to do with saving face ?
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It took 14 years to find the origin of SARS. All these Smart Politics Knowers and they don’t understand Biden consigned the Lab Leak Hypothesis to bureaucratic purgatory, by which point they’ll be back to the border or crime or inflation or the Eurozone or whatever the hell.
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They identified civets as the intermediate host for SARS in 4 months.
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Can we agree that whether a car hurtling toward a baby carriage drifted down a hill on its own or was accidentally pushed isn’t as important as the fact that some asshole saw it coming and didn’t push the baby carriage out of the way?
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