Headline: WE WERE BADLY MISLED ABOUT COVID!!!
Content of oped: OK, there’s still no evidence of a lab origin and let’s not even mention the mounting evidence it started in the market but here’s a recap of some uneven lab-leak talking points from the last few years
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=601496A2-B75A-4DDA-866F-6D29765761E1
Content of oped: OK, there’s still no evidence of a lab origin and let’s not even mention the mounting evidence it started in the market but here’s a recap of some uneven lab-leak talking points from the last few years
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=601496A2-B75A-4DDA-866F-6D29765761E1
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If they were using the information available at the time accurately, I don’t think we can rewrite history because we learned more after
The point is that this is warmed over bs
Why is this necessary? Why does Trump have to be ritually flawless? Are we not allowed the evidence of our own senses?
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https://bsky.app/profile/fednews.bsky.social/post/3lkip6cmpps2v
If it was a weapon designed by china, why did Trump downplay and hamper the response to it?
If it was a harmless hoax why were the first people to get the vaccine the rich and powerful?
https://bsky.app/profile/pavisuri.bsky.social/post/3lk6kiqcwnk2m
https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/mbio.01013-15
Whether it’s from a lab leak or a wet market, intentional or accidental, the fix is the same: Masks to prevent transmission, basic hygiene, and vaccines.
These lab leak bozos are beyond help
“… hypothesis was widely accepted at the start of the pandemic, but as time has worn on, scientists have not found a virus in either bats or another animal that matches the genetic make-up of Covid-19…”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7vypq31z7o
The “evidence” for lab leak is literally “there’s a lab in Wuhan.”
Trump installed a new head of the CIA (Ratcliffe), and a day or two later he changed the agency's assessment and said it was more likely that Covid originated in a lab than from animals (albeit with 'low confidence'). It was a change that had no evidentiary basis...
Most Dems have stopped pushing back against the idea that the lab leak is a fact, and it's infuriating.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8594960/
It's a gravy train and the book might not be the most lucrative part but it's a ticket that gets you aboard.
I find it much more terrifying to think that deadly pandemics responsible for killing millions can arise spontaneously.
But either way, China is to blame.
And let’s not forget that Tom Cotton Op-Ed
Anybody still reading NYT Op-Ed either wants to be misinformed or angry or both