RickDick-246 t1_jcff5sk wrote on March 16, 2023 at 1:25 PM

Reply to comment by Infernalism in [OC] More Americans are believing COVID-19 originated from a lab in China. However, there is still no conclusive evidence to support one theory over another. The topic is highly politicizing both internally (US Political Parties) and externally (US-China relations). by Square_Tea4916

To me it doesn’t make a difference. 1. I’m fairly left leaning and always likely was created in a lab. At the same time, countries are doing this type of research all the time and it could have been anyone who fucked up. And 2. Chinas mismanagement of Covid has been horrific no matter how it started. Potentially covering up the issue and then their 0 Covid policy was horrible for their citizens.

We all know the CCP is a dictatorship that treats their citizens like shit, allows genocide and spies on their own people. Whether or not Covid was created in a lab is a very small reason I look at chinas government as a bunch of douches.

mynameismy111 t1_jcofdt2 wrote on March 18, 2023 at 9:34 AM

No, not a lab, it's been a threat and concern for decades cause it happened before

https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/06/ehd-zoonotic-diseases/_old/article.html#:~:text=Previous%20Coronaviruses&text=SARS%20was%20initially%20present%20in,into%20humans%20in%202002%2D03.

SARS was initially present in an as-yet unknown animal reservoir, perhaps bats, and was passed to civet cats, relatives of the mongoose. Evidence shows that as it circulated in the civet cats, it gained mutations that allowed it to cross over into humans in 2002-03. More than 8,000 people worldwide became sick with SARS and 774 died.