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Topic	The "COVID is a biological weapon" crap.
adjl 06/09/21 7:54:35 PM #47:	OhhhJa posted... But where did the so called evidence for the wet market pangolin come from then now that we know that likely wasn't true? By finding a genetically similar virus in the local bat (not pangolin) population, mostly. The wet market was believed to be the most plausible route of transmission between said bats and humans. OhhhJa posted... Where did I say angrier? I was talking about people getting angry, and you talked about that getting worse. Worse than angry is angrier. OhhhJa posted... I said they fueled conspiracy theories by ignoring a very possible plausible explanation As Link said, conspiracy theories were going to happen regardless of what they did or didn't do. When people don't fully understand the situation, they jump to conclusions and outlandishly demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect. This was never going to be a simple enough situation for everyone to understand it, so there were always going to be conspiracy theories. OhhhJa posted... I think you've got it backwards my dude. Blame the government and there's less animosity toward the Chinese people as a whole amd its directed at big bad government. Blame a wet market and people can be mad at what they perceive as a cultural problem in china that leads to dangerous viruses Could go either way. Lashing out against the Chinese government can absolutely lead to harming Asians for the sake of hurting it, whereas broader culture is a more abstract entity that you can't deliver a metaphorical ransom to. Neither is ideal. Zeus posted... I still think it's hilarious that the lab angle was completely dismissed when Trump was in office but now it's suddenly a major investigation and a serious allegation under Biden. That's mostly because Trump laced it into a never-ending string of baseless, nonsensical ramblings in a desperate effort to deflect blame from himself (which describes most of Trump's reactions to things that went wrong during his presidency, including its end), whereas if it's being investigated seriously now, it's because of actual evidence. One's an actual reason to suspect there's some merit to the theory, the other is a textbook demonstration of the saying "even a broken clock is right twice a day." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:954826579] in The "... [t:79503252]...</cite> <quote>OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>But where did the so called evidence for the wet market pangolin come from then now that we know that likely wasn't true?</quote> By finding a genetically similar virus in the local bat (not pangolin) population, mostly. The wet market was believed to be the most plausible route of transmission between said bats and humans. OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>Where did I say angrier?</quote> I was talking about people getting angry, and you talked about that getting worse. Worse than angry is angrier. OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>I said they fueled conspiracy theories by ignoring a very possible plausible explanation</quote> As Link said, conspiracy theories were going to happen regardless of what they did or didn't do. When people don't fully understand the situation, they jump to conclusions and outlandishly demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect. This was never going to be a simple enough situation for everyone to understand it, so there were always going to be conspiracy theories. OhhhJa posted... </cite> <quote>I think you've got it backwards my dude. Blame the government and there's less animosity toward the Chinese people as a whole amd its directed at big bad government. Blame a wet market and people can be mad at what they perceive as a cultural problem in china that leads to dangerous viruses</quote> Could go either way. Lashing out against the Chinese government can absolutely lead to harming Asians for the sake of hurting it, whereas broader culture is a more abstract entity that you can't deliver a metaphorical ransom to. Neither is ideal. Zeus posted... </cite> <quote>I still think it's hilarious that the lab angle was completely dismissed when Trump was in office but now it's suddenly a major investigation and a serious allegation under Biden.</quote> That's mostly because Trump laced it into a never-ending string of baseless, nonsensical ramblings in a desperate effort to deflect blame from himself (which describes most of Trump's reactions to things that went wrong during his presidency, including its end), whereas if it's being investigated seriously now, it's because of actual evidence. One's an actual reason to suspect there's some merit to the theory, the other is a textbook demonstration of the saying "even a broken clock is right twice a day." --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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