Everyone except for the people who get sent to El Salvador…

I overheard a guy in 2021 say to someone that his brother said, “I just came from a funeral for a friend who died from covid.” The next thing the guy said was, "I told him, no, your friend died with covid, not from covid.

It really upset me. I just tried to ignore him but it actually kinda ruined my day.

who cares if it was a lab leak or not, a comet hitting the earth could have been sent by evil aliens, you still have to appropriately deal with the adtermath

As a general rule: Never accuse anyone of a serious crime unless you have evidence to back it up.

WIV hs multiple campuses and labs, including a level 2 lab 400m from the market.

I would have preferred a simple 1 page faq with who did it and how was the government involved if at all.

You made me chuckle while reading comments and I thank you for it.

Yeah, fuck Cuomo, but a lot of the reasons for New York’s poor performance at the start of COVID were structural issues that were out of his control.

Agreed. He’s such a piece of shit. I mean, fuck Trump, but also, fuck Cuomo.

Sinophobia was already rampant and bipartisan.
Deliberately fueled by the government.
Like the embarrassing ‘spy’ balloon farce as an example.

Yup.

I moderate the bad religion community (they have a song called The New Dark Ages). Its pretty bitchin. it was written during the W Bush presidency but their material get progressively more relevant as time goes on

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RGqA1lNXYhg

For the US maybe, but right now it seems like the wider world may survive.

We have always been at war with Eurasia

Note that mask-wearing only makes it so you can’t breathe if Democrats want you to do it for public health reasons. Mask-wearing is hunky dory if you’re doing it because you’re a Nazi who doesn’t want to be personally identified.

Actually this news makes me have a conspiracy theory now.

• Trump started trade war with china early January 2018
• The Wuhan was studying the corona virus in the wild as usually, mostly with relax work
• Wuhan lab start publishing about covid in mid 2018 studying different variation
• Wuhan lab start testing mixing covid with hiv and stuff
• Trump loses the Trade war around late 2019
• 2019 Military World Games is happening in Wuhan October 18–27, 2019 .

Here is my new conspiracy theory:

• “Ordered by trump - CIA cause the leak to happen from the lab to the market to damage the Chinese economy”

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• First report of covid patient around November 2019
• First Cluster of patient around December 2019

Considering how the US government has been consistent of disregards of human life I see this as realistic case of why Trump keep circling back to this.

So, this is wild speculation, but I’ll tell you my guess. I think it’s about TSMC, the world’s leading semiconductor manufacturer. China has, for years, been saying that Taiwan isn’t an independent country, but is instead “Chinese Taipei,” a part of China. They’ve been using this idea for years to gradually build towards an invasion of Taiwan. Taiwan, of course, does consider itself an independent nation. The US officially holds no position on this question, which is kinda bonkers; there’s this whole diplomatic dance about whether the US would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion. The US might not care if it weren’t for TSMC, which runs the plants that produce a huge proportion of the world’s CPUs and GPUs and AI chips. All the best chip-making technology and know-how is with TSMC. It’s a major vulnerability in the US supply chain.

China has been ramping things up in the past several years. It’s suspected that a big part of why they’re going along with the Russian invasion of Ukraine is that Russia probably promised to go along with China invading Taiwan in exchange. It’s all very sub-rosa, but there’s been so much military maneuvering and posturing and so on back and forth around Taiwan that it’s been kind of dizzying.

This is, unfortunately, part of why China was enthusiastic about getting Trump back into the White House. Trump’s policies of isolating the US from its military allies, instigating worldwide trade chaos, and cozying up to dictators make the conditions a lot more ripe for China to make a move on Taiwan. And since the US has never been able to actually talk about Taiwan before, it’s gonna look absolutely batshit to the majority of Americans if China invades Taiwan and the US government suddenly wants to go to war against China over this, which seems like a huge risk. But since, as Trump so eloquently put it, “everything is computer,” we basically can’t stand by and let China take Taiwan without a fight.

So he’s trying to gin up sentiment against China on his own terms to lay the groundwork for a war that seems increasingly inevitable.