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covid.gov redirects to lab leak conspiracy insanity (www.whitehouse.gov)

submitted 2 weeks ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

For the honestly interested, This Week in Virology did some very thorough episodes deep diving with legit experts.

Exec summary: Definitely from a bushmeat market, not from a lab.

https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/tag/lab-leak/

Most recent:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0GwrI9p7RUY

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks man, I was actually under the impression that it was a lab leak until these idiots started claiming it. I just operate under the pretense that literally everything from the right is wrong.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Serves to remind us of our shared humanity.

Pre-2020 my social circle consisted almost entirely of libertarians and small-government republicans. After Gulf War II ("they have WMD!"), then Snowden ("we're not spying on you!"), we came to take it as a given that the government always lies. After all, did you not see the lying to Congress about mass surveillance?

Those same people -- many of whom self-identified as "skeptics" -- were easy prey for Russian bots

All they had to be told was that the government was lying to them about COVID. It matched the pattern of everything else. 95% of them disappeared into disinfo bubbles and became ring-wraith Trump-enablers. Perhaps 5% kept our eye on objective scientific sources and realized in this case actually the government isn't lying