1. Since my name was brought up here, I'll note that in his earlier piece Chait did not make an effort to distinguish between bioweapon theory & lab leak theory, which is a problem because it feeds into narrative that Trump was victim of liberal press.https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1402639064319279117 …
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Chait bungles the MTG analogy. Nobody denies the fires exist just like (almost) nobody believes COVID doesn’t exist. Rather, MTG put forth an inflammatory, unlikely, but technically possible origin story just like Cotton. According to Chait, MTG should be mocked but not Cotton?
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Also, he's real mad about being called a "centrist contrarian." Fair enough. Intransigent neoliberal is probably more accurate.
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I don’t see much difference, from a morality standpoint, between an accidental leak and natural evolution. It wouldn’t change my expectations for American response. In the unlikely event that it was an act of deliberate bioterrorism, I’d find Trump’s response even worse.
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It would mean he was helping the terrorists by hobbling response. However, I don’t think that is the case. I think his response was merely the result of his personality disorder and general incompetence.
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Sloppy language + need for clicks = conspiracies.
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The muddying continued with last week's Vanity Fair piece, which leaned hard into the "secret Chinese bioweapon" hypothesishttps://twitter.com/SababaUSA/status/1400570608501641223?s=20 …
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