• cookiedillo@beehaw.org
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    So this was released to help show transparency? Other than knowing to prevent future outbreaks I’m trying to understand why people may care. I assume it would be to push some narrative but I’m not real clear on what that might be other than something that sounds like it came from a movie script.

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        I can imagine the disingenuous narrative. I was trying to see or understand if there was a realistic or genuine one.

        Honestly, if the root is discovered to be a lab leak the likihood it was due to a conspiracy to create and release a bio weapon is almost zilch. More likely people not following safty procedures through laziness and hubris while they conducted typical viral research.

        Also I could be wrong but a $600K contribution to a research lab doesn’t sound like it would go very far.

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          I can imagine the disingenuous narrative. I was trying to see or understand if there was a realistic or genuine one.

          Honestly, I don’t even think it goes that far and looking any deeper is probably giving them way too much credit. Their only goal is to make their opponents look bad and/or fan the flames of a conspiracy theory their base is rabid about (not that those two things are mutually exclusive, mind you).

          Either way, it’s manufactured outrage: nothing more, nothing less. They have no policies (or principles, shame, or integrity for that matter, but I digress) so they engage in this pointless garbage to keep their base afraid and angry.

          Some of them are just plain stupid, yes, but the rest know exactly what they’re doing.

          Also I could be wrong but a $600K contribution to a research lab doesn’t sound like it would go very far.

          But that’s $600K in Freedom Dollars™, so after conversion, it’s like 200 billion, trillion dollars /s.