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hectorgarabit t1_j5vjmhh wrote
>Wuhan being the first laboratory to name SARS COV2 must have meant they created it
Wuhan was studying bat coronaviruses. Wuhan was working on modifying bar coronavirus before the pandemic. Wuhan deleted all its public databases related to coronavirus a few months before the pandemic was officialy "declared".
There are a lot of evidences that pointed and still point to a lab leak from Wuhan institute of virology.
According to the department of state today, a lab leak is the most likely explanation. "Conspiracy theorist" were 100% true about that.
Odballl t1_j5vlmjm wrote
The Chinese government also covered up all the illegally poached animals kept in unsanitary conditions at the wet market where the epicenter was but that fact just isn't sexy enough for some people.
FiendishHawk t1_j5y9jts wrote
Crappy food hygiene or elaborate conspiracy? Occam’s razor folks.
HavingNotAttained t1_j5x4dz4 wrote
Respectfully, the State Department is not the best resource for monitoring the origins of viruses.
Interestingly, btw, this article alludes to how seriously the former guy was in finding the true origin of the virus.
watabadidea t1_j5vtzoc wrote
The top comment right now is suggesting that the lab leak theory is compera6 to the idea that COVID was created by Bill Gates.
Seriously, what is wrong with people in this sub? Who really sees these two things as comparable in any relevant way?
FiendishHawk t1_j5y9gpw wrote
This is why smart people used to get burned as witches.
Isocratia t1_j5vpujj wrote
If Bill Gates created coronavirus, it would be putting ads in our lungs.
Wagamaga OP t1_j5ua683 wrote
The early stages of the pandemic created a breeding ground for COVID-19 conspiracy theories, which, on Twitter, spread almost as fast as the virus itself. But out of the pandemic’s most prominent early conspiracies, which were shared the most and why?
To find out, a team of researchers, led by Itai Himelboim, the Thomas C. Dowden Professor of Media Analytics at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, collected nearly 400,000 tweets sent between Jan. 19, 2020, to June 30, 2020, about COVID-19 conspiracy theories surrounding Bill Gates, QAnon, the vaccine, 5G networks and Agenda 21. They then analyzed the content of the webpages shared in the tweets.
The overwhelming majority, roughly 87 percent, of webpages linked in tweets and retweets centered on the conspiracy theory surrounding Bill Gates, a villain-based conspiracy theory blaming Gates for creating the virus and financially benefiting from the pandemic. Following Gates, in order of most to least tweeted about, were QAnon, 5G networks, the vaccine and Agenda 21.
“Looking for who to blame for the pandemic was a major motivator in the early stages of the pandemic-related conspiracy theories, illustrated by the Bill Gates-related theory being the most popular,” Himelboim explained.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/14614448221142800?journalCode=nmsa
dreamlike_poo t1_j5wmxze wrote
A conspiracy theory is just a theory until it is proven true or false. It is actually more like a hypothesis, it is a theory that can be investigated.
I am tired of people everywhere insisting they own the truth and if I don't believe them I am a conspiracy theorist. Show me the evidence and let me decide on my own, if your evidence is compelling then I might believe it. There is no compelling evidence one way or another for the Covid virus, but there is circumstantial evidence for it being a lab leak and also some evidence it came from a wet market. Maybe one day we will find a "smoking gun" or something that proves it one way or the other, or some link to Bill Gates or whatever, but until then, it is just a theory.
gnalon t1_j5uc0b2 wrote
No, silly conspiracy theorists, Bill Gates simply wanted to profit off of Covid by giving organizations he worked with exclusive rights to manufacture the vaccine! He didn't actually manufacture it as well. Simple mistake.
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balanced_view t1_j5xoa3i wrote
Bill, if you didn't want people to suspect you were behind it, perhaps you shouldn't have funded ecohealth alliance and the wuhan lab
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Timebomb90 t1_j5ugiof wrote
It was truly a sort of “shoot the messenger” type of situation. As he had talked a lot about future pandemics, some people took that to mean he was just warning people about what he was going to do. Which doesn’t make sense to me but okay. Just as Wuhan being the first laboratory to name SARS COV2 must have meant they created it..