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Did these "whistleblowers" look into the possibility that the virus was released by the Wuhan lab at the same time or thereabout?
There are many conspiracy theories out there.
Providing China with a weapon to deny their culpability is not helping anything.
I know stuff that I'm pretty sure could get me killed. I've shared it with very few and it always hits them like a sledgehammer. But, I use hard science in my knowledge. The stories of the people clearly profiting by covering stuff up is just icing on the cake.
Part of the speculation comes from the feeling that this is so bad it couldn't arise naturally from the region that most flues originate. That's nonsense, we've known that there was literally nothing that would prevent a Spanish Flu level pandemic from happening again.
Yes we have better tools for testing and treating, but on the other hand we have so much better transportation. It has always been a possibility.
That is a stronger link than one cyclist at the games who works for a 4* NATO general.
So,
(1) the idea that this virus was invented by/in the US, sent to China by military games competitors, for deliberate release, I see as possible (I am quite cynical sometimes).
Put this idea up against:
(2) There is a virus/bacterial lab in Wuhan (fact), that staff of the lab sell live animals after tests to 'wet markets' (very likely), the animals (bats, dogs, monkeys, rats) are eaten by many Chinese people (fact) who buy them alive from 'wet markets' as in Wuhan (fact). One or two, or many, of the animals sold still had the virus and it spread to many people going back to mid 2019 (likely), then one or two infected Wuhan people spread it rapidly (likely). Authorities, China and the UN WHO, knew about an outbreak of something bad and tried to suppress the news as well as the outbreak (fact). They failed on both (fact). Direct flights from Wuhan to N.Italy continued carrying hundreds of Wuhan factory workers especially at Chinese New Year time (Year of the rat, 25-Jan-2020) (fact).
Go on from there, all very plausible or actual fact.
My money is on (2) a million to one.
The issue is that the messenger doesn't organize the message rationally and it is incomprehensible. Hopefully someone else will be able to sort it out and independently verify fact to support or refute the speculation.
1. vote
2. monetary value (tax contribution)
3.
Why is 'free thought' ridiculed, challenged, and threatened when a person is opposed to the 'mainstream-narrative'?
[2] remains fixed (degree allowable by 'economic recession/expansion')
[1] remains a variable
[1] dependent on a 'controlled' system of information dissemination
What happens when 90% of the media is controlled/owned by (6) corporations?
What happens when those same corporations are operated and controlled by a political ideology?
What happens when the news is no longer free from bias?
What happens when the news is no longer reliable and independent?
What happens when the news is no longer trustworthy?
What happens when the news simply becomes an extension/arm of a political party?
Fact becomes fiction?
Fiction becomes fact?
When does news become propaganda?
Identity creation?
How does the average person, who is under constant financial stress (by design), find time to research and discern fact v fiction?
Majority of people more prone to believe someone in power sitting behind a big brand ‘news’ name?
Do people [human psyche] tend to follow the ‘majority/mainstream viewpoint’ in fear of being isolated and/or shunned?
‘Mainstream’ is used for a reason [dominate trend in opinion].
[If majority of people believe ‘x’ then ‘x’ must be validated / true]
Why do ‘mainstream’ media heads, within different orgs, always use the same keywords and/or catch phrases?
Coordinated? By who? Outside entity providing instructions?
Do they count on the fact that people [human psyche] are more prone to believe something if heard over-and-over again by different ‘trusted’ sources?
Do ‘echo chamber’ tactics provide validation / credibility to the topic/point being discussed?
Threat to intellectual freedom?
Would control over[of] these institutions/organizations allow for the mass control of a populations viewpoint re: a desired topic?
Read again – digest.
Narrative and from that it just exploded worldwide. Hmm BTW any Question unless you know the answer begins with speculation. Kind of like “Are vaccines causing a lot of Autism in today’s children”? Or how bout this one. “Did Oswald act alone” ?
Pure speculation right.
Ozcams Razor or something like that.
Blows the mind how far imagination reaches...
Did these erstwhile gentlemen consider that the only top secret biowarfare lab on land is in Wuhan, China? All the others are offshore.
The Chines are notorious regarding poor containment practices. I think the likelihood of the lab releasing the virus carries more water than some phantasy about 300 athletes who did not perform well.
The Chinese gov is hunting for fake info like this. They already fished out some Facebook notes of a woman in Seattle who claimed the virus was around before China had it. She could not prove it, it was all speculation, but it suited the purpose of the Chinese. I bet this video will appear soon on the official Chinese party website, proving that it was the US who initiated it.