Comment on covid.gov redirects to lab leak conspiracy insanity
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 week ago
For the honesty interested, This Week in Virology did some very thorough episodes deep diving with legit experts.
Exec summary: Definitely from a bushmeat market, not from a lab.
https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/tag/lab-leak/
Most recent:
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 week ago
Thanks man, I was actually under the impression that it was a lab leak until these idiots started claiming it. I just operate under the pretense that literally everything from the right is wrong.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 week ago
Serves to remind us of our shared humanity.
Pre-2020 my social circle consisted almost entirely of libertarians and small-government republicans. After Gulf War II ("they have WMD!"), then Snowden ("we’re not spying on you!"), we came to take it as a given that the government always lies. After all, did you not see the lying to Congress about mass surveillance?
Those same people – many of whom self-identified as “skeptics” – were easy prey for Russian bots
All they had to be told was that the government was lying to them about COVID. It matched the pattern of everything else. 95% of them disappeared into disinfo bubbles and became ring-wraith Trump-enablers. Perhaps 5% kept our eye on objective scientific sources and realized in this case actually the government isn’t lying