You use that term, but I do not think you understand what it means.
Here was the original excerpt from the Daily Mail article that I was refuting: "The furin has been one of the focal points of debate about Covid-19's origin, with some experts claiming it could only have been acquired through lab experiments."
And here is my refutation, addressing exactly that claim: A furin cleavage site is actually present in a LOT of coronaviruses. How does the presence of a natural genetic element of many coronaviruses "prove" laboratory manipulation of a coronavirus? It doesn't.
Just in case you do not understand that I was, in fact, addressing the Daily Mail article directly and not making up some straw man, let me explain. If someone says that all swans are white, and someone else provides evidence of a black swan, then it shows that the first person was wrong. In this case, the unidentified "experts" claimed that a furin cleavage site could only be present as a result of laboratory manipulation, and I provided evidence that furin cleaving sites are common in coronaviruses. Therefore, laboratory manipulation is NOT the only way for furin cleavage sites to appear.
Now, as for my editorial comment in that reply #12. How can you believe that SARS-CoV-2 was created in a Chinese lab to be a bioweapon and simultaneously believe that Covid-19 is no more serious than any other cold? Are you really incapable of seeing the contradiction?
A bioweapon is something that is designed to cause high casualties, including deaths. If SARS-CoV-2 is no more serious than any other cold, then how can it be an engineered bioweapon?
And if you think a harmless virus was unleashed on the world so that elitists could use it as an excuse for world domination, then why didn't they use the first coronavirus discovered for that purpose? Or the second? Or the third? Or influenza viruses, rhinoviruses, or adenoviruses that also are highly contagious? Why didn't they use MERS, which has a significantly higher fatality rate than Covid, as an excuse to impose world domination?
The problem with conspiracies is that they fall apart under logical analysis.
I myself can amend my own statement to remove any extremes which may have tainted it.
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Here is what many rational people think:
Chinese scientists, in complicity with the U.S., created a killer virus of which they, in their incompetence, lost control. An outbreak of a novel Coronavirus occurred in the same city as a U.S. funded Chinese biolab which coincidentally indulged in experimentation with deadly viruses.
The entire world economy was shattered as all the perfectly healthy people were quarantined. Millions of lives were shattered as family businesses were destroyed.
Promising therapeutics were quashed in the interest of emergency FDA approval of a novel gene therapy which was rushed into distribution at Warp Speed, bypassing the usual testing safeguards. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people, instead of being treated with the therapeutics, were intubated and died. Alone. Their loved ones weren’t even allowed to hold funerals.
Sane, intelligent people who wished to analyze the risk/benefit ratio of the novel therapy vs Covid 19, were ridiculed and had their lives cancelled.
The Democrats seized upon the opportunity and eliminated voting integrity in the name of safety.