Covid did not escape from a Chinese lab.

China is an untrustworthy, paranoid, autocratic state with a history of deadly epidemiological coverups (SARS), and it mishandled and lied about the covid crisis early on.

But covid is not a bioweapon.

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tldr: "Not only do these arguments — discussed in detail below — lack merit on their own, factual scientific studies concerning the origin of SARS-CoV-2 actually provide the strongest refutation to date of the claim the virus was & #39;created in a lab.& #39;"

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It& #39;s not true.

There are actual coronavirus conspiracies, like the loopholes that let big businesses siphon 94.5% of the $349 Paycheck Protection Program earmarked for small businesses:

#ppp">https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/20/great-danes/ #ppp

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And the conspiracies by private equity companies to slash health workers& #39; pay while collecting bailouts and denying claims and spending millions to lobby against surprise billing:

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1252340836940931074

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As with 9/11 truthers, the coronavirus-in-a-lab truthers have grasped something essential - that opportunistic sociopaths view tragedies as opportunities to loot and consolidate power - and then reach the wrong conclusion: that they caused this crisis.

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Disaster capitalists and other war criminals DO sometimes cause crises (toppling governments in Latinamerica, say), but they don& #39;t need to.

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They have created a world that& #39;s so unstable that disasters happen on the reg, and they have "ideas lying around" waiting for the right moment.

#disaster-socialism">https://pluralistic.net/2020/03/21/most-dangerous-ghost/ #disaster-socialism

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This is actually way more sinister. It means that when elites contemplated a crisis like 9/11 or coronavirus, their response wasn& #39;t to plan to prevent the crisis or soften its impact, it was to plan how to use it to their advantage.

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We don& #39;t need to indict sociopaths for conspiring to cause crises. The depravity of planning to profit from them is more than sufficient to condemn them as unfit to rule.

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