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Noone's talking about lab creation, but rather the fact the research institution in question specializes in virology. So they would go into the field(/bat caves in this case) to collect virus samples to bring back to the lab in Wuhan to study (as that's literally their job).
Mistakes happen, and a researcher could have simply been infected by one of these collected samples before going onto infect other people.
In that case, I don't see how that's the striking condemnation of China that Western media makes the lab theory out to be. The virus is still of entirely natural origin, and it was spread inadvertently. Maybe in that case you could make the argument that the lab and/or the workers responsible should bear responsibility and that it was negligence as opposed to a freak accident, but usually when Westerners talk about the lab theory they think "China was researching COVID specifically to destroy the world REEEEE"
I don't think China would intentionally spread COVID as a weapon, and not necessarily because they are so nice.
Simply,
So, It just sounds like a stupid thing to do.
The condemnation comes from what people assume the researchers did with the virus after it arrived in the lab. Somehow it had to make the jump to humans and human to human transmission, which is far from trivial.
Based on what western labs commonly did in the past (see where this goes?), they might have intentionally done some virus breeding to see what it would take for it to make this jump. From a research perspective this somewhat makes sense, but given the risk of a lab leak this is relatively unethical IMHO (and at least officially western labs stopped doing that).
But personally I find this entire discussion completely useless. Even if it turns out to be a lab leak, so what? Does that change anything about the current situation and further outlook?
I agree with that logically it's not beneficial but the USA is openly practicing jingoism against the Chinese to the point that Asian Americans are being randomly attacked. There's a theory this leads to a demand for reparations which leads to an excuse for WW3, which some american war hawks are looking for.
Could the fact that it could naturally infect humans not be the reason they were studying it? I mean, we only have circumstantial evidence for a lab leak so it seems like jumping the gun to try and come up with theories on the details anyway.
Maybe for the first part, i.e. some animal viruses have the ability to infect humans, but usually lack sufficient capabilities to then go on to infect other humans from a human host.
Edit: I am not saying this was done in a lab. It can happen naturally as well, for example this happened with the swine-flu. But it usually requires prolonged and wide-spread close contact between humans and these animals, which is unlikely in the case of cave bats.
Well, I just read this article by Daily Mail, so we'll have to see what the research says when it's published.
You'd try to defend China anyway though
And you'd defend NATO any way you can too, what's your point? Are you a war hawk?
No, I think there are things to criticize about NATO, but not that it's furthering white supremacy or that NATO and member countries are neo nazis and all that nonsense. I'm for example critical of NATO's (And Russia/China's) training demonstrations that are upping conflict or taking in eastern countries that don't historically would be a part of NATO that also makes Russia more volatile
It's objectively a club of exclusively majority white nations (+ Turkey) using their military to bomb non-white dominant nations for the past 60 years. Many of their countries have or have had far right political parties (Poland, Greece, USA, etc.) in political power during its tenure. How are you not seeing this as a white supremacist organization? Do you actually take what they say at face value?
Because I'm a part of society and meet normal human beings, I follow normal news and I know the historical context. Even calling all these countries 'white' seems to have a very American sensibillity. Neo nazis in europe would not include most of these countries.
And a lot of you people (tankie scum) defend authoritarian countries anway. Why throw rocks from a glass house, you know?
Why do you continuously use the insult that you're "normal" or follow "normal things" compared to everyone with opposing views to you who are apparently all weirdos or shut-ins?
Well, there are stuff that are dissagreements, but some opinions and positions is most likely fitting a certain lifesetting. Like take for example neo nazis
Neo-Nazis and communists are nothing alike, so it's best to not even insinuate any similarities. Honestly, I think you need some kind of reality check. Outside of Western countries, communism is normal, and the philosophy it's built on, dialectical materialism, is a completely valid (one could even say the most valid) method of perceiving the world.
I'm telling you this with sincere intentions, and I mean absolutely no harm because I realize everyone has space to learn, but you need to get off whatever high horse you think you're on.
Sure. I'm the one roleplaying on the internet
I mean, being a anarcho communist is pretty weird NGL
So basically you're insinuating that the Western liberal point of view is "normal" for "humans"? That we're all insane for daring to having dissenting opinions? Hmm...
Well, there are stuff that are disagreements and stuff that are off base. You wouldn't take neo nazi conspiracies seriously either.
Ahhhhh nice! Got you! Hahahaha there it is!
I mean, I could talk with you over Jitsi. try telling me all this stuff to my face. I like to see how are then
Actually no nm I'll concede for the moment. I'm trying to stay quasi-anonymous with this account and I don't trust you not to take a screenshot/record me because I hold unpopular political views in the West.
Your choice. And I'll respect that. But like, most of you guys are like in deep water talking with another person about stuff like this. I'm also not some rando on the internett either, so it be interesting to see how you fare
It's tempting
Bet. You're in Norway? In four hours work?
Because I've heard all the arguments the West has against them, and they're all either without sufficient evidence or blatantly false.
You've probably seen these debunk lists floating around this site, maybe even posted by me, in case you haven't, bam and bam.
I could buy that