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In Reply to: Oops! posted by Jay Buridan on June 1, 2021 at 13:29:26:
Why is this suddenly in the news again? Because the Biden administration stirred the pot. And why did the Biden administration stir the pot? Because Republican PACs have been running TV ads in swing districts targeting Biden and Democratic legislators as soft on China. In my area, they started appearing about a month ago. A few weeks later, Biden announces that he's ordering an investigation.
We're never going to know how the virus got into humans. If it did get out of the lab, and the Chinese government knows it did, we'll never hear about it. That would be the closest guarded secret you can imagine. And if the Chinese government hasn't been able to reach a conclusion, we're not likely to either.
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Follow Ups
- This is a political game - Dave_K 06/2/2109:48:24 06/2/21 (10)
- Did you read the report in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists? - Jay Buridan 01:42:25 06/3/21 (9)
- Did you read Biden's statement? - Dave_K 08:28:48 06/4/21 (1)
- Agreed, accidental lab escape of a bioengineered virus - Jay Buridan 18:58:31 06/4/21 (0)
- What I read... - Steve O 06:16:36 06/3/21 (6)
- Right, the Lancet article swayed opinions in the early days - Jay Buridan 14:12:38 06/3/21 (0)
- It's the greatest forensic challenge in history - Jay Buridan 10:29:17 06/3/21 (4)
- The scientific community already did converge on agreement as to the probable source - Dave_K 08:26:26 06/4/21 (3)
- The analysis is forensic precisely because the Chinese aren't cooperating - Jay Buridan 19:13:12 06/4/21 (2)
- You're missing the big difference - Dave_K 05:45:31 06/5/21 (1)
- Okay, I have a slightly different set of facts - Jay Buridan 14:41:05 06/8/21 (0)