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@thackerpd@scrippsresearch Fittingly, here's the cliff you'll follow me in jumping off as I continue to pursue propagandistic story telling that is anything but scientific.
@R_H_Ebright@ydeigin Nope. Just a complete and transparent shill for bio-defense interests who wish to obstruct investigation into a lab leak at any cost.
@gdemaneuf The point about Xinfadi in Beijing and other markets throughout CN - again and again - emerging as super spreader sites after the virus had emerged should tell us something. The peer reviewer is bang on.
@MJnanostretch Indeed - that's a bit of a red herring. IMO the risk was less about "geo" conflict and way more about "ego" conflict. It would have tarnished the reputation and disrupted funding pools for a handful of hallowed establishment virologists and agencies.
@ban_epp_gofroc@gdemaneuf What DWW is missing here is that the "geo stakes were high, it could have led to war" argument is really an "ego stakes were high, it could have led to blown reputations and funding bans." The latter is what this was always about.
@sigridbratlie@dkupiecki@WHO Remember, Sigrid - you're not engaging with actors acting in good faith. There are still coordinated efforts to promote a politically convenient narrative. Not the truth.
@CSandbatch@paulrbrian Re. Midwest, I'd humbly vote that the driftless region (SW Wisconsin / NE Iowa / parts of Illinois & Minnesota) are the exception. Hills and trout streams.
@sfejer@Ayjchan satire? or just a shill? the last grasp for zoonosis proponents is to point to the highly gate-kept scientific literature in order to ignore the absolute mountain of forensic, intel-collected, and behavioral evidence that points (obviously) to a lab leak.
@JanKlimkowski Not just "most likely" true but absolutely, to the detail, true. They obfuscated and propagandized otherwise in order to deflect Western culpability via funding ties, tech transfer, and very possibly shared engineering on the virus itself.
@danaparish Recall that there was also a mock public health crisis event for the military games prepping for a "highly contagious SARS-like coronavirus." Believe it had already leaked and begun to spread in Wuhan and they tipped their hat with that training scenario.
@VillanuevaPM Absolutely. Recall in the early days it was one of the most radically censored topics, even a mention would get nuked and attract an army of only-fan auto bots to delegitimize. Even if it's true the US didn't test banked blood samples, some of our allies surely did.
@arunmurthy07@R_H_Ebright@RebelACole Not just Fauci, but the US intel and defense state did not want to open "pandora's box" by exposing possible US (and other Western ally) culpability through funding ties, tech transfer, and quite possibly some of the originally engineered sequences that ended up in the virus.
@R_H_Ebright The Military Games in October was always a very touchy subject. Underreported in the press and Congressional committees. Feels like there's good reason for that - officials could (and likely did) test banked blood samples for antibodies, but no one wanted that smoke.