I remember the very first day this story broke, there were two main aspects regarding the origin, the bio lab in Wuhan and the exotic animal/meat market found a few blocks away.
It's no surprise we're back to where we started a year and a half later.
The line of demarcation seems to be between people who think it's possible the virus somehow got into live animals from the lab, spread to the wet market and then to humans, and those esteemed individuals - like on this board - who think China - with Fauci's and the US's backing - purposefully unleashed this virus to take down Trump or for some other, nefarious reason.
It's the second of those two which I find more troubling. As usual, the far right just ran with this and have turned it into yet another unhinged conspiracy, along with the hundreds that came before.
So yeah, hopefully we'll find out how this strain of Covid started spreading in the population and turned into such a devastating, worldwide pandemic.
And everything should be on the table, as the case is investigated. But the wild presumptions and conclusions many here have reached - along with the likes of Tucker Carlson and others - seem entirely premature, to say the least.
Your assessment of the situation, those two being the only choices, is absolutely bogus, wrong, and off base. So the rest of what you wrote is utter bullshit. You can't even put history back together correctly.
There weren't just two camps.
In the early stages, we knew the virus came from China. It came from Wuhan, this we knew. We got lots of data saying many people were sick in Wuhan and videos and photos of the sick and dead. We knew there is a virology lab in Wuhan that historically performed research on viruses very very dangerous to man. China began instituting some bizarre travel restrictions at the time. And China was being caught not reporting the truth about what was happening to their people - those getting sicked or locked into apartments. This is what we knew early on.
That led to questions and lots of them. It did NOT lead to a group that said in March or April "The US and Fauci created this virus to unseat Trump." ::face palm:: Good lord you're as bad as the people on Twitter, where you seem to get your education.
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was said in February'ish time frame by many that if this virus turns into a pandemic, Democrats and the media would milk it as much as they could to hurt Trump....
"just watch." That prediction was right.
It wasn't until some time had passed that some science and knowledge about the virus emerged that showed it behaved in unusual ways, and may have been engineered. That's when you really started to hear a larger growing # of voices saying that this **** didn't jump from a pangolin to a human. That knowledge has since grown and we now know there is a 1 in a billion chance it was animal to human. We also know virus has "fingerprints" of sequences that cannot be natural.
It wasn't until numerous people began investigating the lab and the money behind it that interesting coincidences were found....like Fauci's own agency was funding the lab, and doing what appeared to be laundering in order to fund the Wuhan lab. More investigators started following the popcorn trail. Turns out there were lots of coincidences. Now, with his emails, turns out he's looking pretty suspect.
All of this learning evolved, much of it still is...but there wasn't enough of it early for anyone at the time to make the claims you claim they did.
We never believed it was "built" to unseat Trump, but most of us believed early that it was a bioweapon. They have a history of gain of function research. So early on, we suspected it was a bioweapon. We don't trust China, rightfully. We believed it was more likely the virus escaped their lab than the wet market story. Period. That's all that was said at the time.
We also knew, early on, that the media and Liberals would jump on ANYTHING to make Trump look bad. That's a fact. They had for 3 years. We did not believe - hell I don't know anyone that does believe this - that the virus was BUILT TO UNSEAT TRUMP. Dumbest **** I've heard from you in 12 hours. But day one, we knew any natural disaster, war, pandemic, etc that came along they'd use it. And use it they did. That prediction came true.
It's fantastically different things Tibs to say the Right believed the virus was created to unseat Trump by Fauci (lies) v what happened which was the Right believed the media and democrats would jump on any opportunity they could to attack Trump (truth). After 4 years of fake Russian bullshit, 2 meaningless impeachments, trying to impeach him for ice cream, someone with 2 brain cells could have predicted that.
Finally: Facebook was shutting down dissenting voices on the origins of the virus LONG BEFORE Fauci was implicated in funding the Wuhan Lab. Everything else you said is quite literally a gross obliteration of what really happened.
