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If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake (Look! It's trying to think!)
The Guardian ^ | Thomas Frank

Posted on 06/01/2021 6:32:25 PM PDT by dead

There was a time when the Covid pandemic seemed to confirm so many of our assumptions. It cast down the people we regarded as villains. It raised up those we thought were heroes. It prospered people who could shift easily to working from home even as it problematized the lives of those Trump voters living in the old economy.

Like all plagues, Covid often felt like the hand of God on earth, scourging the people for their sins against higher learning and visibly sorting the righteous from the unmasked wicked. “Respect science,” admonished our yard signs. And lo!, Covid came and forced us to do so, elevating our scientists to the highest seats of social authority, from where they banned assembly, commerce, and all the rest.

We cast blame so innocently in those days. We scolded at will. We knew who was right and we shook our heads to behold those in the wrong playing in their swimming pools and on the beach. It made perfect sense to us that Donald Trump, a politician we despised, could not grasp the situation, that he suggested people inject bleach, and that he was personally responsible for more than one super-spreading event. Reality itself punished leaders like him who refused to bow to expertise. The prestige news media even figured out a way to blame the worst death tolls on a system of organized ignorance they called “populism.”

But these days the consensus doesn’t consense quite as well as it used to. Now the media is filled with disturbing stories suggesting that Covid might have come — not from “populism” at all, but from a laboratory screw-up in Wuhan, China. You can feel the moral convulsions beginning as the question sets in: What if science itself is in some way culpable for all this?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; coronavirus; covid; malebovinefeces; wuhan
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1 posted on 06/01/2021 6:32:25 PM PDT by dead
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To: dead

The left, the corrupt press, the DemocRAT party, and China will not let that happen.

Period.


2 posted on 06/01/2021 6:34:37 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: dead

OK I’ll say it. What utter and complete codswallop!


3 posted on 06/01/2021 6:35:13 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: dead

Bump.

I was wondering if you were still alive.

The ‘Rona didn’t get me either.

5.56mm


4 posted on 06/01/2021 6:36:37 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: rockrr

It’s a classic modified limited hang out. The Dems will have this all wrapped up long before the midterms/


5 posted on 06/01/2021 6:37:30 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Da Coyote

Yep. It is Trump/republican political disinformation.


6 posted on 06/01/2021 6:39:39 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: dead
Yes,a political earthquake would occur if it was widely accepted that the Red Chinese were responsible. But the Guardian,the Amazon Compost,MSLSD and others will make sure that doesn't happen. They've all got their “fact checkers” working on this as I type.
7 posted on 06/01/2021 6:40:43 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: dead

Why has nobody suggested the obvious possibility that the virus release may have been deliberate?


8 posted on 06/01/2021 6:42:39 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: M Kehoe

I’m still here - Covid free - vaccine free. Covid don’t know where I live.


9 posted on 06/01/2021 6:42:43 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: dead

The ONLY reason the media ignored the truth was because Trump said it.

But now they can fess up.

Why?

Trump is gone.

Like Harry Reid’s lie about Romney not paying taxes, the smears and lies about Trump did their job and now they think they can be honest again.

Don’t trust them. They are anything EXCEPT News Reporters or Journalists.


10 posted on 06/01/2021 6:43:42 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: MNDude
Why has nobody suggested the obvious possibility that the virus release may have been deliberate?

Baby steps. As this article points out, it's going to be traumatic for the idiots on the left to realize the people they thought were idiots were right all along.

11 posted on 06/01/2021 6:44:24 PM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: dead
it's going to be traumatic for the idiots on the left to realize the people they thought were idiots were right all along.

They'll be sucking their face masks for the rest of the decade.

12 posted on 06/01/2021 6:46:17 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: dead

“Baby steps. As this article points out, it’s going to be traumatic for the idiots on the left to realize the people they thought were idiots were right all along.”

🤣👍


13 posted on 06/01/2021 6:46:38 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: dead

What idiocy! How come I (we) knew about the lab leak for many, many months and yet people calling themselves journalists or experts didn’t know SQUAT? The writer is so pathetic! So NOW you realize the globalists were full of crap and this was all a takeover? Btw it FAILED. God Bless the Republic!


14 posted on 06/01/2021 6:47:01 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: MNDude

“Baby steps. As this article points out, it’s going to be traumatic for the idiots on the left to realize the people they thought were idiots were right all along.”
................................................

They had NO excuse. I’m not Einstein and I knew their heroes were all full of crap and evil. Amazing stupidity. Don’t look for apologies, they’ll just do the race baiting crap again.


15 posted on 06/01/2021 6:48:22 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: dead

Read this earlier today. Well worth reading.


16 posted on 06/01/2021 6:48:43 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: Da Coyote; All

PRINT THIS UP AND GET THIS OUT THERE BECAUSE NOBODY KNOWS THIS
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THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

THAT BIDEN WIN IS AN AWARD TO CHINA FOR INVADING US USING COVID 19

The CCP Effort praised by a CCP scientist doing so

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3960570/posts

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts

Every time an American looked at an item for where it was made in it came from China. Now China’s reliance making everything was being threatened by a change in leadership in America which was a major consumer of those products. When Americans hailed their leaders decision to make many of them in their country US. Their politburo worried.

THIS WAS GOING ON WHILE CCP SCIENTISTS WERE WORKING ON COVID

Worse yet opponents to the Chinese regime in power had its citizens protesting its policies , as in Hong Kong, since that change in American leadership, wave the American flag and present Trump’s name when doing so.

All of which presented those in power the need to destroy that leader Donald Trump. In totalitarian political circles this strategy has been reported to be frequently considered Would a runaway plague created by a nation which could threaten populations of an enemy cause them to react by demanding extreme restriction of movement by its population to prevent its spread ? Thus wind up fragmenting its economy and create defeat for that leader’s upcoming election.When they released it that was the CCP intention but it got away from them and went world wide and they should be made to pay

Here’s that compliment paid to the CCP by the Biden campaign for bringing in the virus which they admitted really helped fix it to get Biden elected http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3940857/posts


17 posted on 06/01/2021 6:49:11 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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To: dead

8^)

Me too, and the First lady.

5.56m.


18 posted on 06/01/2021 6:49:42 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: dead

Trumps fault


19 posted on 06/01/2021 6:49:49 PM PDT by cp124 (Family and friends, pay to play government.)
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To: MNDude

I would go a little farther out. I would say democrats colluded with communist China to release this virus in an election year. The Fauci connection is just scratching the surface.


20 posted on 06/01/2021 7:09:31 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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