If it did or didn’t come from a lab, it doesn’t change the FACT ... China is still the world’s #1 source of flus. plagues, and other contagious diseases
Because they have lousy agricultural standards and eat infected animals
China was also the source of the source of SARS and H1N1
and who knows how many more in the future, because they continue to do nothing to clean up the sources
I don’t want to be too paranoid and I don’t want to type a long rant, but I will say this —
Sure, China has historically been a point of origin for disease. I suppose there are multiple reasons for that, and I don’t imagine that this historical trend will change any time soon. All I can do about that is shrug.
But there is at least an inkling that maybe — maybe — China created a vaccine for this thing (for internal use) and then released the virus on the world. China is either lying about it’s own death toll (likely) or else China was well-prepared and has largely escaped the ravages. In which case this is really an act of war.
What do we do about that? Do we have to wait for real “proof”? What if it happens again next year? The year after that? Every year?
If Saddam Hussein rolls his armored divisions into Kuwait, we meet him on the field of battle and push him back. But if China is intentionally infecting the world — what is the correct response? I fully support tariffs, but tariffs are waaaaaaay insufficient. I almost think nukes are the only way to tell a nation “stop with the biowarfare”.
H1N1 originated in the US