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RE: The best defense is a strong offense response is very overused in politics these days.

"The best defense is a strong offense response is very overused in politics these days." Are you simply projecting intent onto others?

"**But with a game show host as President who probably can't find Taiwan on a globe and the State Department in shambles it might be irresistible."

For someone who claims "Honest I have little interest in partisan politics." , you sure seem to be unable to resist introducing politics into your multiple comments.


I was just saying that it was called a conspiracy theory by many, which it definitely was.


"It is a conspiracy theory to suggest the virus was intentionally introduced to China by the US."


Well, it WAS suggested that the "virus was intentionally introduced to China by the US", hence, based on your criteria, the use of the term "conspiracy theory" is appropriate.

From the Wikipedia page "Misinformation related to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic" (link below):

"According to London-based The Economist, plenty of conspiracy theories exist on China's internet about COVID-19 being the CIA's creation to keep China down. NBC News however has noted that there have also been debunking efforts of US-related conspiracy theories posted online, with a WeChat search of "Coronavirus is from the U.S." reported to mostly yield articles explaining why such claims are unreasonable. According to an investigation by ProPublica, such conspiracy theories and disinformation have been propagated under the direction of China News Service, the country's second largest state-owned media outlet controlled by the United Front Work Department. Global Times and Xinhua News Agency have similarly been implicated in propagating disinformation related to COVID-19's origins.

Multiple conspiracy articles in Chinese from the SARS era resurfaced during the outbreak with altered details, claiming that SARS is biological warfare conducted by the US against China. Some of these articles claim that BGI Group from China sold genetic information of the Chinese people to the US, with the US then being able to deploy the virus specifically targeting the genome of Chinese individuals.

On January 26, Chinese military news site Xilu published an article detailing how the virus was artificially combined by the US to "precisely target Chinese people". The article was removed after early February.

Some articles on popular sites in China have also cast suspicion on US military athletes participating in the Wuhan 2019 Military World Games, which lasted until the end of October 2019, and have suggested that they deployed the virus. They claim the inattentive attitude and disproportionately below-average results of American athletes in the games indicate they might have been there for other purposes and they might actually be bio-warfare operatives. Such posts stated that their place of residence during their stay in Wuhan was also close to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the first known cluster of cases occurred.

In March 2020, this conspiracy theory was endorsed by Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China."




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  • RE: The best defense is a strong offense response is very overused in politics these days. - Krav Maga 04/10/2019:57:47 04/10/20 (1)
    • Thanks! - Goober58 22:10:55 04/10/20 (0)

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