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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Liberal here who just didn’t care if it was lab leak or from a wet market, as long as it wasn’t intentional. I don’t see why it would matter otherwise.  NYT published an article 5 months before we shut down about the decrease in lab funding and the risks that meant for the next pandemic. Google it. October 2019. [/quote]

Covid killed 1,000,000 Americans.  Imagine if China had some kind of massive super tanker run by the Chinese state that was transporting toxic chemicals and it crashed off our shores due gross negligence and it killed 1,000,000 of our citizens in California.  Are you really going to sit there and claim it doesn’t matter how the accident happened or who was responsible? You are truly insane. At a bare minimum, the entire world needs to cut off all ties economically with China to punish them for potentially causing the deaths of 25,000,000 people.  One does not simply kill millions of people due to gross negligence and get off Scot free with no repercussions. [/quote]

China had millions of deaths and completely derailed their own economy (and likely will not economically recover under the current leadership). They learned their lesson.

And guess what? A lab leak of a virus will happen again. Maybe in Europe. Maybe in the United States. Maybe in Asia. But it will happen. So before you go on a vengeance war path, just know that it could be us on the back foot the next time (especially with budget cuts to R&D).

My bigger concern is that countries will be even less open and transparent about this research, therefore it will take us longer to figure out an outbreak has happened. At least with COVID, the Chinese published their genetic sequence of the virus in January 2020, which enabled vaccine researchers to begin their work that same month. [/quote]

This is very valid. All humans (including brilliant, well intentioned scientists of any national origin) are capable of making mistakes. Mistakes which could have killed them.

China’s government is not honest ur transparent. That impedes science .

But coloring this pandemic with some nationalized villain flag really misses the point of what we should learn from it. [/quote]

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