• Gork@lemm.ee
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    9 个月前

    Wasn’t the consensus of virologists in the early days of the pandemic that a lab origin was completely preposterous?

    • neptune@dmv.social
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      9 个月前

      I don’t really recall that being the case. I do recall people agreeing that using the plausibility of a lab leak to just make COVID an anti China crusade was stupid and bad and in some cases racist.

    • Gigan@lemmy.world
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      9 个月前

      Trump said it though, so most people abandoned critical thinking at that point.