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Yeah, and the Spanish flu, and the bubonic plague, and rsv, and avian flu....
I'm not voting you down nor up, I'm not going to call you crazy or tell you to put on a tinfoil hat. I agree that there are nasty things being created in labs.
But if something was released why would they release it in their own country, if that lab was working on designing something deadly why would it have such a low mortality rate?
Virus's have always been passively trying to kill us, isn't the simpler explanation that a decade virus came along and we reacted more to it than we have in the past because our detection sensitivity is much higher?
I don't think you're crazy, but I hope you've considered the simpler explanation.
There's a difference between an intentional and unintentional lab leak. Asking why they would release it in their own country doesn't really change things if it was a fuckup they're trying to hide.
Here’s a reminder that the Spanish flu didn’t even start in Spain. Spain was simply the first country to stop hiding their death numbers, so every other country blamed them for it when they started posting news about the deaths.