Yeah yeah it’s probably just a conspiracy theory but it’s more believable then China creating a virus and releasing it onto their own people.

Like, imagine how funny it would be if this whole time, COVID was the US trying to destroy China by causing a pandemic, and instead China handles it flawlessly and it ends up destroying the west instead. :amerikkka-clap:

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They’re saying they found the virus in a mine and stored it in the lab for research but that it escaped accidentally, not that they engineered it on purpose.

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Aye, but you know uncle Bob still thinks China made it in a lab.

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how are you not getting this

the theory is that it was collected in nature and altered in a lab for research purposes

but not that it was designed as a weapon or intentionally released

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How are you not getting that I’m not talking about the official position. I’m talking about the widespread belief that covid was created in a lab as a bioweapon

There is no reliable evidence to suggest covid has been created or altered in any way.

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mysterious vaping lung illness from counterfeit pods snuck into the supply chain summer 2019

this wasn’t mysterious, it was a vitamin E derivative being added to sketchy THC vape pods

the rest is easily debunked here: https://www.polygraph.info/a/china-disinfo-covid-19/30647619.html

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the lab theory is that they were developing a vaccine and it accidentally escaped. no one is seriously suggesting it was anything else

this website is becoming intolerably smug and disconnected with the wider world. you don’t have to buy into mainstream narratives but you need to know what they actually are.

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Lmao calm down. I’m talking about the bullshit conspiracy theory that it was created in a lab.

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you were conflating the idea that it was created in a lab with the idea that it was intentionally released. they are different things. now you are trying to weasel out of it.

this is dishonest and you should do better.

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:jesus-christ:

Hmmm nah, that’s not what I did. Stop trying to start shit where there is none.

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Actually a pretty good way to mess with conspiracy theories is to counter with a bigger one.

“Oh, you think the Jews did 9/11? Wow, the Molemen really pulled the wool over your eyes.”

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I’ve been itching to hit 9/11 truther people with “the twin towers never existed” and getting really fucking mad and calling them CIA shills

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Another conspiracy theory I came up with: The US secretly brought African Swine Fever or new swine flu strains to China and infected their hogs.

It has it all: profit motive for the US pork industry, a way to test secretly releasing a virus in China before doing covid, and more ammo for CHINA BAD segments on the news.

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