Jesus, reading this in the footer of that webpage blows me away:
Public health officials often mislead the American people through conflicting messaging, knee-jerk reactions, and a lack of transparency. Most egregiously, the federal government demonized alternative treatments and disfavored narratives, such as the lab leak theory, in a shameful effort to coerce and control the American people’s health decisions.
When those efforts failed, the Biden Administration resorted to “outright censorship—coercing and colluding with the world’s largest social media companies to censor all COVID-19-related dissent.”
Unnerving how constant their efforts are to undermine American trust in American institutions. From the President! Unnerving.
I mean they did engage in gaslighting about the lab leak being impossible, thou Trump was president during much of that, so I guess he is blaming himself?
But not in any meaningful scientific sense - I believe the mainstream science view is (still?) that it was likely a spillover event similar to the original SARS epidemic.
Jesus, reading this in the footer of that webpage blows me away:
Unnerving how constant their efforts are to undermine American trust in American institutions. From the President! Unnerving.I mean they did engage in gaslighting about the lab leak being impossible, thou Trump was president during much of that, so I guess he is blaming himself?
Isn't the lab leak all but confirmed at this point?
Confirmed or not, that US government website does not give me any confidence in its content.
It looks so unlike a western government page to me.
My guess is that they will use this as an excuse to confiscate Chinese held treasury bonds at one point.
No
In a terms of US politics - yes.
But not in any meaningful scientific sense - I believe the mainstream science view is (still?) that it was likely a spillover event similar to the original SARS epidemic.
Nobody has really confirmed it yet. It's a good theory and a likely one. But that's no proof and there may never be.
It is the most plausible so far. Or ever for that matter.