• Gork@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

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

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      8 months ago

      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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      8 months ago

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