Eh, the most believable conspiracy is gain of function research accidentally escaped a lab because of poor controls and then was covered up.
Gain of function research can be done for lots of reasons, one of which is offensive biological weapons, but there are others. It's pretty irresponsible to do regardless of your justification. But these were chinese researchers in china, not grad students.
China has been using students to acquire US technology, but we don't need crazy bioterrorism conspiracies. They were students, they came here to pay to learn things, it is no conspiracy that people on student visas learned things at the universities they attended. On top of that there have been inappropriate, illegal, or otherwise undesirable things foreign students have done that look a lot like espionage.
The basic problem is that democrats pretend problems don't exist and republicans pretend the problems are existential threat devil boogey monsters that need to be solved by sending people to gulags.
There's an excluded middle here where people want reasonable responses to potential issues.
Personally, I never argued whether it was China or not. It wasn't pertinent.
Fox News didn't give a hoot about discussing the origins of viruses and preventing them in the future. They just wanted to sow doubt in science (vaccines) and make China bad comments and cough in people's faces.
Now that the crisis is over, it's a fair question to ask where it came from.
I think the larger announcements yet to come, will crumble the current religion we call Science. I'd like to get back to REAL science with a lower case s.
Both of you have a screw loose and need to stop accepting the premise of the loudest idiots on social media and assuming the people who speak the loudest are representative of the feelings of people at large.
> Four years ago you couldn't even remotely mention this as a possibility; even, and particularly, among "the most educated"™ and "the most tolerant"™.
> will crumble the current religion we call Science
Facts: people who talk like this are pontificating nonsense and are never worth talking to because speech like this indicates a person has zero interest in an actual discussion. I want to insult instead of debate because I truly believe people who talk like this need to be publicly shamed for discourse like this. It is a root cause of the destabilization of our society and needs to be stopped. You're talking like an AM radio conspiracy call-in nutjob. If you want to be taken seriously, don't channel the ghost of Rush Limbaugh in your rhetoric.
> I want to insult instead of debate because I truly believe people who talk like this need to be publicly shamed for discourse like this.
I will forever remember how charitable you and the white progressives have always been in their discourse, and will reflect the same demeanour to those who earnestly believe that child genital mutilation will transubstantiate the male flesh into female like some barbaric 21st century eucharistic rite.
Gain of function research can be done for lots of reasons, one of which is offensive biological weapons, but there are others. It's pretty irresponsible to do regardless of your justification. But these were chinese researchers in china, not grad students.
China has been using students to acquire US technology, but we don't need crazy bioterrorism conspiracies. They were students, they came here to pay to learn things, it is no conspiracy that people on student visas learned things at the universities they attended. On top of that there have been inappropriate, illegal, or otherwise undesirable things foreign students have done that look a lot like espionage.
The basic problem is that democrats pretend problems don't exist and republicans pretend the problems are existential threat devil boogey monsters that need to be solved by sending people to gulags.
There's an excluded middle here where people want reasonable responses to potential issues.