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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It absolutely matters how it arrived and it’s just gaslighting by liberals to suggest otherwise.[/quote]
Sure.
Now.
It sure didn’t then
Dickheads just used it as an excuse to beat up Asian people.
And you know it.[/quote]
dp.. I'm Asian American.  I suspected it could be a lab leak, but the vitriol by Trump and his team towards the Chlna virus (and I'm not even Chinese) was causing hate crimes against Asian Americans.  A lot of the people who support Trump are racist, and constantly pointing fingers at another race just fueled their racism.  There were covid patients who yelled at Asian American doctors for bringing in the virus.

That is why the rhetoric needed to be toned down.  It was not helping.

When we had the MERs virus, we did not have a POTUS who constantly pointed fingers.  There weren't people screaming at ME looking people about bringing in the virus (at least not to the degree we had during Trump's term).

Lab leaks happen.  [b]But, the question is, how is China (or any entity) going to ensure this doesn't ever happen again.  And how will China be held accountable?[/b]  Russia isn't going to support holding China accountable, and too many economies rely on Chinese exports.[/quote]

By using common damn sense!!  If you read the article, China was conducting gain of function research on the covid virus in a friggin BSL2 lab!!!!  That's completely unacceptable risk for the entire world!  It's mind boggling you people think China should be off the hook Scot free for conducting this kind of high risk research while having gross incompetence for safety and disregarding virtually all international standards for safety.  If you read the actual article, the American scientist with ties to the research at the Wuhan lab knew it was being conducted under BSL2 and even explicitly stated that if American scientists found out that kind of research was being conducted in China under such lax safety oversight they would have lost their sh*t.

Why is it so hard to ask countries like China to obey international standards for every for this kind of research so they they don't kill millions of people yet again? [/quote]

Cool. China sucks. We all know that. We all knew it then. We also knew it came from China. 
Screeching about a lab leak did F all to help Americans in spring 2020. In fact it was a distraction and hindrance to where our focus needed to be. Testing, tracing, and treating. 
We were failing at all of the above and the White House wanted to pull focus away from their failures. [/quote]

The time to extract resources from China for all the testing, tracing, and treating was then.

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So, then Trump shouldn't have defunded the scientists who were there who could've gotten the samples out.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN21C3NE/

[quote]Reductions at the U.S. agencies sidelined health experts, scientists and other professionals who might have been able to help China mount an earlier response to the novel coronavirus, as well as provide the U.S. government with more information about what was coming, according to the people who spoke with Reuters. The Trump administration in February chastised China for censoring information about the outbreak and for keeping U.S. experts from entering the country to assist.
“We had a large operation of experts in China who were brought back during this administration, some of them months before the outbreak,” said one of the people who witnessed the withdrawal of U.S. personnel. “You have to consider the possibility that our drawdown made this catastrophe more likely or more difficult to respond to.”[/quote][/quote]

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