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goobster  ·  897 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Mysterious Case of the COVID-19 Lab-Leak Theory

In short, China has no reason (except the death of 4m people, which is peanuts to them) to ever help clarify the origin, or assist an investigation in any way. And if the next virus kills 80m Chinese, who cares? Xi will just make more.

It's a horrifying thought, and a view of humanity that is going to become more prevalent as we fight each other for dwindling resources. Lots of dead people makes room for the living to thrive. It's fucking morbid, but you know Xi is doing these calculations in his head...





b_b  ·  897 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Pretty grim, right? Xi is stuck between a rock and a hard place, and all he can do is obfuscate.