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The lab-leak theory for the origins of the 2020 pandemic was racist disinformation; now, commentators and experts acknowledge it’s a genuine possibility.

just gonna open with that with zero supportive evidence huh? Jesus Christ.

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As an expert in another field, I’ll gladly go on the record refusing to rule out almost anything that is not actually impossible. That doesn’t mean I think it happened, or even that it’s even slightly likely.

If you ask your experts “is this possible” you are not getting your money’s worth.

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Was there evidence supporting the lab-leak “theory” at the time? I think there was not. And yet, Fox News was harping on this hypothesis, Trump was calling Covid the “Kung Flu”, and racists were hate-criming Asian Americans in the streets. There is a reason we were saying just shut up about the lab leak at the time. (Admittedly, it might be true, but that doesn’t mean its proponents in 2020 were right.)

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Yeah, probably not the best example…

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Fauci backtracked all his previous lies about the lab leak being a conspiracy theory https://youtu.be/AqYZw1TNFZ4?t=1m38s

UsRighttoknow found evidence that a US company outsourced virus research that described covid19 to the Wuhan Lab.

Of course it’s no surprise that the Wuhan Lab of Virology is responsible for the outbreak of a virus right next to it. But hey that Pangolin wet market story sounds so funny let’s keep repeating it.

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wtf is a fauci and what kind of source is a youtube video.

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The doctor who led America through Covid as official presidential advisor. And the one responsible for lab leak being called a conspiracy theory.

Him backtracking on lab leak says everything.

For the leak documents see https://usrtk.org/covid-19-origins/scientists-proposed-making-viruses-with-unique-features-of-sars-cov-2-in-wuhan/

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If you call Stewart both an expert and a commentator it’s true!

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