But I thought conservatives said COVID was all made up and a plot by the democrats to control the populace through mask-wearing?
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Note that mask-wearing only makes it so you can't breathe if Democrats want you to do it for public health reasons. Mask-wearing is hunky dory if you're doing it because you're a Nazi who doesn't want to be personally identified.
Oh sure this is like them claiming that nanograms of mercury in vaccines cause autism but they argue that companies dumping mercury into their local atmosphere, soil, and water are overburdened by liberal government regulations and shouldn't be regulated.
Then in order to "cure" said autism, they pump their children with any manner of completely worthless and dangerous interventions from the same pharma companies they claim to hate.
Yeah I just listened to the newest Behind the Bastards about this and Robert Evans describes numerous examples of parents treating their kids like lab rats and pumping them full of expiramental drugs until they died. It's awful shit all around.
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We have always been at war with Eurasia
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.... Is this the new age dark ages?
Yup.
I feel like I'm screaming, "help" at the top of a mountain, yet nobody can hear me. I feel like almost all online interactions are false. I feel like my day to day life is shrinking from country scale to community to household scale. This is where we are divided and we don't care for another, but only ourselves. Not out of greed, but out of perceived necessity. It's all fake.
I completely understand sometimes it feels like everyone has their head buried in the sand or worse is lapping up the misinformation without a second thought, living in a post truth society is truly hell for the analytical.
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For the US maybe, but right now it seems like the wider world may survive.
I moderate the bad religion community (they have a song called The New Dark Ages). Its pretty bitchin. it was written during the W Bush presidency but their material get progressively more relevant as time goes on
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That website is batshit. It looks like a tabloid website. It's not just promoting the lab leak theory. It also calls out Fauci, Andrew Cuomo, and Biden. It is basically a political hit piece. Fucking embarrassing.
It would basically be like Biden changing a site about Russia to include info about Trump's pee tape.
That website is batshit
So it is on point?
I’m just sitting here watching the end of the world
I saw a billboard outside of my city yesterday saying something like "did your loved ones really die of COVID-19?" and had some "covid is a hoax" website named on it. What a fucking dark timeline we're in.
I overheard a guy in 2021 say to someone that his brother said, "I just came from a funeral for a friend who died from covid." The next thing the guy said was, "I told him, no, your friend died with covid, not from covid.
It really upset me. I just tried to ignore him but it actually kinda ruined my day.
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The US government really is just being vandalised.
This is a group of people who feel they've been unfairly made fun of for too long finally getting their revenge.
Lab leak: picture of Trump. Hm, I always suspected that’s how he came into this world. Good thing they’re officially confirming it.
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The "ANDREW CUOMO: FAILURE" at the bottom of the government site is some random shade, but I enjoy that at least. Fuck Andrew Cuomo
Yeah, fuck Cuomo, but a lot of the reasons for New York's poor performance at the start of COVID were structural issues that were out of his control.
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It is insane how many comments here believe that humans somehow made COVID-19 in a lab and leaked it. It is obvious and clear that the critical sequences responsible for the jump to humans exist in wild type form in nature. In fact, the critical spike protein sequence is so similar between coronavirus that the antigen work which the vaccine was based upon was done BEFORE COVID-19 in Jason McClellan’s lab at Dartmouth.
This WILL happen again, and conspiracy theories that have now shut down labs and funding are likely to cause millions of lost lives next time. We got lucky and the tinfoil hats are going to guarantee we’ll be unlucky next time.
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By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced
Ah yes, we've already discovered everything. Science is over, everyone, let's go home.
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The tall letters in all caps.
The dramatic fade to blue.
Trump standing in the middle.
The fancy font on 𝓒𝓸𝓿𝓲𝓭.
Oooh the tackiness is too much to bear
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So the narrative is COVID was a dangerous lab leak - but also, you don't have to wear a mask?
Consistency is not a strong point of these dumbasses.
It's pretty standard to play both extremes simultaneously, and people just pick whichever they want to relate to at any given moment.
eg.
- (such-and-such group) are lazy, but also they are taking all the jobs.
- They are stupid, but also have secret organisations that control the world, with mind-control, and lasers that control the weather, etc.
- They are snowflakes obsessed with inclusiveness, but also they want (target-minority-group) to take over.
- They are against free speech; and we must silence them.
I'm sure others can think of more, and variations on those.
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USA are sooo close to reinstate flat earth!
Why would he want his photo in the middle of that text? He's associating himself with negativity, I feel like this is marketing/propaganda 101. It honestly looks like a movie poster where he's the one leaking it.
China had a Wuhan Covid research lab with lax safety standards, is it really a conspiracy?
Usually you'd assume a high probability at least?
Ok, so people not overwhelmed by the election may remember that even under Biden last year, it was suggested as a solid, if not more likely possibility. Now, their position ultimately was "we don't think we'll ever find the truth" but I think part of that is also knowing that finding out is generally not with the trouble.
Naturally Trump doesn't care about truth or being nuanced with an "probability" of something, so they're going to be a bit more definitive.
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I always wondered what it would be like to live in oppressive regimes like Russia or China. Also never thought I'd live through a pandemic. Checking all the boxes lately.
First this, then releasing 10000 pages worth of John F. Kennedy files. lol these are right out of the dictator's handbook to public agenda manipulation. Trump can't even do the dictator thing very well, it is such a rookie level move.
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So… Chinese Americans (and anyone vaguely Asian looking) the next to be sent to concentration camps?
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He really has to put his ugly ass face on everything.
I don't think there's enough evidence to conclusively say that it was natural or that it was a lab leak. There is actually quite a lot of evidence that it was a lab leak, but this website looks like such BS.
There's also good evidence that Jeanne Calment was not the world's oldest woman, but was instead her mother. Also, it's well-understood that lightbulb manufacturers conspired to lower lifespans of bulbs throughout the 20th century. Just because there was a conspiracy don't mean it ain't real.
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