I would be doing pranks like this for like a week before I would lose my job at the CDC if I worked there.
USSR circa. 1977.
Somewhere in China, circa 2019 (Just kidding, I don’t buy into that conspiracy)
Well, also, India at some point in 2020, but there were monkeys involved.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/politics/covid-lab-leak-wuhan-china-intelligence/index.html
Turns out it holds a little more weight than previously acknowledged, at least.
My key take away from the article beyond the headline:
"Two sources said that the Department of Energy assessed in the intelligence report that it had “low confidence” the Covid-19 virus accidentally escaped from a labe in Wuhan.
Intelligence agencies can make assessments with either low, medium or high confidence. A low confidence assessment generally means that the information obtained is not reliable enough or is too fragmented to make a more definitive analytic judgment or that there is not enough information available to draw a more robust conclusion."
a little more weight than previously acknowledged, at least
You need to take into account the political fallout for them to claim either medium or high confidence. I’m sure they were pressured or otherwise had some bias to reduce their assessment in order to preserve relations with China.
I personally find the lab leak theory more compatible with Occam’s Razor than the wet market theory. I don’t think there was an actual conspiracy here to release the virus intentionally though, I think it was leaked accidentally (again, Occam’s Razor). That said, I haven’t seen all the research, nor am I an expert at pathology, I’m merely looking at the motivations for the various parties involved and the research I have seen. Perhaps there’s some compelling evidence and arguments an expert pathologist could provide to change my mind.
“No worries, just let herd immunity do it’s (sic) thang.” - the guy in the red shirt behind the scientist in lab coat
How do you know someone used the wrong word when talking?
Idk but I upvoted just bc of that
Oh I did too
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It only needs an antimasker/antivaccine activist screaming below to be made relevant to the present.
This did not age well.
This one hits a little different than it used to…
Wuhan laboratory has left the chat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident
U.S. Military: “Our bad, but not actually our bad”
This is like an intrusive thought, visualised. Perhaps a good way of thinking about the far side 🤔
