It’s now been 2 years since SARS-2 first emerged. In that time, almost a million Americans have succumbed to the virus with over 50 million becoming infected, both numbers almost certainly significant undercounts.
this entire series is incredibly well written and argued. here’s some stuff that’s kicking around in my head:
i think “lab leak” was a kind of ‘safe harbor’ for many journalists b/c the evidence aligns with lab origin but it’s considered a leap to ascribe intent (bioweapon deployment). but safe harbor should be used only as long as it’s supported; and i think your argument here is convincing enough to take the next epistemological step toward the bioweapon position.
i’ve thought this was likely a bioweapon from the start, but am bothered by the question: ‘why does it seem like the bioweapon is aimed at US population in general?’ who benefits from US suffering mass economic disruption (answer: big tech, apparently). i don’t buy the whole ‘great reset’ narrative; but it’s almost unavoidable from this perspective.
what am i missing? was it just that the US suffered splashback from their own scheme?
I don't think the left hand and the right hand are coordinated in the States.
My guess is that it wasn't a US bioweapon deliberately released, but accidentally released. What causes confusion is that everybody can see all the coverups that the US community is doing, which makes people suspicious in thinking they deliberately infected China first. But likely it is guilt from accidentally releasing, and deliberately manufacturing SARS2 in the first place.
The thing that seemed to confuse everyone was the 2 week incubation of the initial strain. Nobody seems to really consider the 2 week incubation anymore for subsequent strains. But initial strain from Wuhan there was definitely a lag from exposure to symptoms appearing.
The US athletes to Wuhan military games were ok on arrival, but sick during the games, so that they had to be airlifted out. They were said to have "malaria" even if nobody in Wuhan gets malaria.
Many other European athletes like Eloise Clouvel who won gold, were fine in Wuhan, but sick in Europe on returning home. Those that got sick on return home supported like Canadian military, supported the theory that the origin of the virus was Wuhan.
Chinese authorities probably believed that as well initially. Authorities all around the world probably believed that, on seeing their people get sick including officials on returning home.
Considering that Wuhan was pretty shut down for the games, it seemed unlikely to be human to human transmission from the Wuhan locals to the foreigners. Thus the seafood market seemed the most likely because I believed some visitors might have gone to the market.
The US warning was about an unknown contagion, not about coronavirus.
The reason that US felt that this accidental release might have been contained was because of China's strict lockdowns. Which indeed did succeed in preventing the spread of the Wuhan strain.
Its just that there were already other strains in circulation in Europe and US that had gone undetected. Such as the EVALI cases in America.
Hence the US community rested easy, and didn't test transmission, only of people from Wuhan. All the while covid had already been spreading for months before Wuhan elsewhere in the world.
Great piece here. The frenzy to control the entire narrative about COVID and vaccines itself speaks volumes. The virus came from Chinese people eating pangolins. The virus was not airborne. The virus could only kill those with sinful "co-morbidities." The vaccines prevented infection. The vaccines stopped transmission. The vaccines were perfectly safe. Each of these things has since proven false, but each time they were challenged, a coordinated effort arose to silence or destroy anyone on the "wrong side." The prolonged attempt to "cancel" Joe Rogan for simply speaking with a world-renowned virologist and mRNA expert was nothing short of bizarre. And no one ever lost money betting that America was in fact already doing whatever terrible thing it accused a Communist country of trying to do, from experimenting on prisoners to brainwashing programs.
this entire series is incredibly well written and argued. here’s some stuff that’s kicking around in my head:
i think “lab leak” was a kind of ‘safe harbor’ for many journalists b/c the evidence aligns with lab origin but it’s considered a leap to ascribe intent (bioweapon deployment). but safe harbor should be used only as long as it’s supported; and i think your argument here is convincing enough to take the next epistemological step toward the bioweapon position.
i’ve thought this was likely a bioweapon from the start, but am bothered by the question: ‘why does it seem like the bioweapon is aimed at US population in general?’ who benefits from US suffering mass economic disruption (answer: big tech, apparently). i don’t buy the whole ‘great reset’ narrative; but it’s almost unavoidable from this perspective.
what am i missing? was it just that the US suffered splashback from their own scheme?
i’ve seen it argued that covid serves as an ongoing BioGladio, and i think that explains things about as well as can be expected.
I don't think the left hand and the right hand are coordinated in the States.
My guess is that it wasn't a US bioweapon deliberately released, but accidentally released. What causes confusion is that everybody can see all the coverups that the US community is doing, which makes people suspicious in thinking they deliberately infected China first. But likely it is guilt from accidentally releasing, and deliberately manufacturing SARS2 in the first place.
The thing that seemed to confuse everyone was the 2 week incubation of the initial strain. Nobody seems to really consider the 2 week incubation anymore for subsequent strains. But initial strain from Wuhan there was definitely a lag from exposure to symptoms appearing.
The US athletes to Wuhan military games were ok on arrival, but sick during the games, so that they had to be airlifted out. They were said to have "malaria" even if nobody in Wuhan gets malaria.
Many other European athletes like Eloise Clouvel who won gold, were fine in Wuhan, but sick in Europe on returning home. Those that got sick on return home supported like Canadian military, supported the theory that the origin of the virus was Wuhan.
Chinese authorities probably believed that as well initially. Authorities all around the world probably believed that, on seeing their people get sick including officials on returning home.
Considering that Wuhan was pretty shut down for the games, it seemed unlikely to be human to human transmission from the Wuhan locals to the foreigners. Thus the seafood market seemed the most likely because I believed some visitors might have gone to the market.
The US warning was about an unknown contagion, not about coronavirus.
The reason that US felt that this accidental release might have been contained was because of China's strict lockdowns. Which indeed did succeed in preventing the spread of the Wuhan strain.
Its just that there were already other strains in circulation in Europe and US that had gone undetected. Such as the EVALI cases in America.
Hence the US community rested easy, and didn't test transmission, only of people from Wuhan. All the while covid had already been spreading for months before Wuhan elsewhere in the world.
Great piece here. The frenzy to control the entire narrative about COVID and vaccines itself speaks volumes. The virus came from Chinese people eating pangolins. The virus was not airborne. The virus could only kill those with sinful "co-morbidities." The vaccines prevented infection. The vaccines stopped transmission. The vaccines were perfectly safe. Each of these things has since proven false, but each time they were challenged, a coordinated effort arose to silence or destroy anyone on the "wrong side." The prolonged attempt to "cancel" Joe Rogan for simply speaking with a world-renowned virologist and mRNA expert was nothing short of bizarre. And no one ever lost money betting that America was in fact already doing whatever terrible thing it accused a Communist country of trying to do, from experimenting on prisoners to brainwashing programs.