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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's stupid to burn public trust for arbitrary guidelines that have no basis in science.   It was stupid to shut down a reasonable theory when all we had were theories anyway.

All this destroyed trust in institutions and frayed the public cohesion.  [/quote]

Please explain how speculating on the origins of the virus helped Americans in spring of 2020.
Did if affect developing treatments?
Did it help us getting a handle on testing and tracing? [/quote]

China accidentally drops a nuke on a US city killing 1,000,000 Americans.  Please tell me why knowing the origin of whom accidentally dropped the nuke matters and why it'd be of any relevance during the aftermath of the destruction?

Your logic is truly absurd.  At a minimum, if China conducted high risk research with way to lax oversight (e.g..doing this kind of research on a BSL2 lab), there are many actions the world can take. For example, maybe scientific journals should blacklist all Chinese research going forward from publication. Perhaps sanctions can be put into place on all scientific equipment and supplies manufactured from other countries that are trying to be sold in China.  There SHOULD be consequences for gross negligence that leads to 25,000,000 deaths.

The craziest part is that this isn't even the first time a virus has leaked from a state run virology lab in China. The original SARS virus also escaped one of their labs a long time ago and infected people.  How many millions of deaths and trillions of dollars in blown up economies should the world tolerate until it concludes that China cannot be trusted with things like risky viral research?  [/quote]

I agree with some of your points but until America pays its debts to China, we are not in the position to do much about it.  [/quote]

China owns less than 7% of all outstanding US public debt. The vaaaast majority of public debt is owned by Americans, American institutions, and the US govt itself.  China's ownership of US debt is a moot point. Hell, even Japan owns more US debt than China.[/quote]

China can’t be trusted. As one pp says “China gonna China”.  Left and right agree that as a country/government/state, China is sketchy as hell. Why do we owe them ANYTHING? [/quote]

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