[Mariner]

“Geez, people, THINK! “

I am so tired of hearing this virus was manufactured. It is far too weak and indiscriminate to be a bioweapon.

It simply crawled out of the fetid, filthy sewers of Wuhan where fresh remains of every conceivable animal and their feces intermingled with human waste, and eventually humans.

The most diverse and un-contained laboratory in the world.

No nation, no matter how evil, would endeavor to create this. As the impact on them would be just as bad, or potentially worse.

[windsorknot]

I am so tired of hearing this virus was manufactured.

It really gets old. But believers somehow know that it’s a bioweapon.

[PA Engineer]

I am so tired of hearing this virus was manufactured. It is far too weak and indiscriminate to be a bioweapon.

I suggest the following scenario.

The virus escape was an accident from a bio lab just like the original SARs from Beijing.

The CCP began the coverup to prevent the world from seeing the severity of the impact.

The Chinese have a long history of dynasty collapses from the loss of "Mandate of Heaven." They took a pragmatic and logical approach to maintain power..

They allowed the virus to spread to weaken their enemies. China sees everyone outside of China as their enemies. Watch what they do to their internal enemies.

Their approach was to weaken every other country to reduce any foreign threats to the regime's power.

There Silk Road strategy is working perfectly as they destroy the populations along it. Their thinking is they will recover first and then they can dominate large areas of the world.

Their original military strategy was exactly that including the destruction of the US.

They didn't have to fire a shot. They lose a few million of 1.3 billion. That is nothing. The cold calculus is they won and they maintain power.

[Paul R.]

... and of course then we get even MORE posts that would make ol’ Friar William of Ockham roll over in his grave, and likely deserve addition to a list of examples of Occam’s Razor.* I sometimes wonder if some of our posters are self aware.

*Some of these are pretty good & make for a much needed smile:

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“Some examples of Occam’s razor include the following:

• One of the fence posts is broken.
Of possible explanations a) An albino moose, lost on its quest for its squirrel best friend, crashed through the fence in despair, or b) An old nail rusted through, “b” is more likely.

• The tire on the car is flat.
Of possible explanations a) The screw stuck in the tire wall let the air out, or b) Serial tire-flatteners sliced it open with a laser scalpel, creating an imperceptible hole, then inserted the screw in another part of the tire to mark their victory, explanation “a” is more likely.

• It is raining and I saw a bright flash through my curtains.
Of possible explanations a) lightning, or b) UFOs are trying to pull my roof off, explanation “a” is more likely.

• A student failed the statistics test.
Of possible explanations a) The student needed to study harder, or b) Malicious textbook publishers put wrong answers in the study guide in hopes of sabotaging future statisticians, explanation “a” is more likely.

• A car rear-ended another in highway traffic during rush hour.
Of possible explanations a) The driver was distracted by the phone in his hand, or b) The driver was distracted by an elephant on the side of the road, which ran away before anyone else could see it, explanation “a” is more likely.

• A loud noise is heard in an apartment that is next to a busy highway.
Of possible explanations a) The surface of the highway cracked due to an unprecedented volcanic event, or b) A truck backfired, explanation “b” is more likely.

• A man has sent several text messages to his wife over the course of a day, and she has not responded.
Of possible explanations a) her phone ran out of battery, or b) she is maliciously ignoring him in revenge for an error on his part that he cannot remember, explanation “a” is more likely.

• A woman is nauseous several hours after eating at a restaurant.
Of possible explanations a) She may have food poisoning or b) Her long-dormant fetal twin has awakened and begun to move, explanation “a” is more likely.

• A roast beef in the oven burns to a crisp after being in the oven for only one hour.
Of possible explanations a) A sleepwalking neighbor came into the house and turned up the oven temperature, or b) The oven’s temperature gauge is wrong, explanation “b” is more likely.

• A dog owner comes home to the trash can tipped over and trash is scattered on the floor.
Of possible explanations a) The dog tipped the trash can over, or b) Someone broke into the house and sorted through the trash can, explanation “a” is more likely.

• A ball rolls out into the road in a residential area in front of a man’s car.
Of possible explanations a) Some children are playing ball and it accidentally rolled into the road, or b) Some children are rolling balls into the road deliberately, in hopes of wrecking cars and looting the remains to prop up their tottering lemonade business, explanation “a” is more likely.”

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-occam-s-razor.html

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Well, ok, the one about the wife might be 50/50.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

It’s not a weapon. I figure somebody was fiddling with it in the lab, and then he or somebody else spilled it. It could have been in study for a vaccine, as some people have speculated.