06-14-2023, 07:47 PM
(06-14-2023, 07:27 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: While I too consider the CCP to be monstrous and would not put biological warfare past them, I feel like the incompetence angle is much more likely. Don't get me wrong, the conspiracy theorist side of me definitely sees the narrative of the CCP unleashing this as a form of population control on their own people (their aging population has a potential to cause a lot of issues for their economy) All that being said, I think the accidental leak is a more likely scenario.
I agree that human incompetence is far more likely than clever conspiracy. I honestly hadn't considered the population control for China side of that equation. I did consider it being yet another tool to ratchet down the control of their own people, but they may already be at 1984 standards in that regard already. Thanks for giving me a new angle to consider for my conspiracy scrapbook.
Quote:That's what I don't get, to be honest. The original story looked bad for Trump because his reduction of staff in China and throwing out the pandemic response plan that was handed to him by the Obama administration really contributed to the problem. So you would think the media would have ate that shit up with a spoon and he would've pushed against the lab leak idea. Instead, we had the media pushing the story from the administration, which was Fauci et al, and Trump going against his own administration.
The pandemic really was a weird situation.
Precisely. So much doesn't make sense, which makes one think you're not viewing it from the proper angle. One thing is for sure, the past three years have given conspiracy theorists a huge shot in the arm.
(06-14-2023, 07:35 PM)Nately120 Wrote: Methinks the racism came via Americans looking to blame people who fit a vague racial profile. Again, easy for me to brush off but I'm not some Asian American who got to be tacitly labeled as "the enemy" by the oh so powerful powers that be and the media. I'm sure it sucks for white people to be called racists at the drop of a hat, but it probably also sucks to have Asian heritage and try to go about your life while people are harassing you about releasing covid on them.
The media doesn't cause misguided hatred and division, people cause misguided hatred and division.
I may lack perspective here, as I've lived most of my life around a sizable Asian population. I understand that's absolutely not the case for most of the country. My friend group is predominantly White and Asian, with numerous close friends who are Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and Chinese so it's hard for me to put myself in the position of a person who knows few, if any, people of Asian descent. Also, when I speak of accusations of racism I'm not just referring to Caucasians being accused. The term is bandied about freely against all manner of people.
