China has a lot of state-run and state-affiliated biological-research facilities.https://bit.ly/3teQtqZ
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In fact, one of them is the "People’s Liberation Army Key Genetic Engineering Laboratory.” Boy, that doesn’t sound ominous, now does it?https://bit.ly/3teQtqZ
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And we know the Wuhan Institute of Virology conducted gain-of-function research, which can “enhance the pathogenicity or transmissibility of potential pandemic pathogens.”https://bit.ly/3teQtqZ
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Now… put aside whatever you currently believe for a moment and just imagine that some bat, pangolin, ferret, badger, or rabbit brings a natural version of SARS-CoV-2 into Wuhan, the city that houses some of the Chinese government's viral research labs.https://bit.ly/3teQtqZ
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Even if the Covid-19 outbreak had nothing to do with the labs, the Chinese government couldn’t fully open up the labs for outside investigations and inspections without exposing some other unsavory research-related secrets.https://bit.ly/3teQtqZ
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Thus, the Chinese government would downplay the outbreak, mislead the WHO, make accusations against other countries, and do everything possible to deter or avoid a full examination of their labs in Wuhan — in other words, everything that they’ve done since the pandemic began.
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In other words, “zoonotic origin” and “the Chinese government has something enormously consequential that they’re hiding in their labs in Wuhan” are not necessarily contradictory.https://bit.ly/3teQtqZ
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