The covid lab leak theory gets people really angry, mostly because it's culture war nonsense, like you're attacking science itself if you say "Sure, it's possible."
Seems kind of stupid for non-virologists to read one article and go online and yell "No way was it a lab accident! What are you, a Trump voter?!"
I can admit it's possible it was a mutation. So what? Half the shit you read online is a psyop to begin with. Shouldn't labs always be improving their safety standards anyway? Jfc.
@esaeger Seems to me that a lot of the people who are raving about lab-leak conspiracy nonsense are likely to also hate masks, vaccines, and public health measures.
It’s almost like…like… 😉
@Jones_NX03 - I honestly don't know. I wear a mask all the time, it simply seems to me that a lab leak could have happened. Like, you can find tons of evidence supporting either theory, and all we can do is choose our reality wrt what we honestly think. It's all good afaic.
@esaeger The conservatives who are pushing the lab leak conspiracy theories the hardest are the same group who have been pushing back against fighting the virus. They hate masks, vaccines, and public health measures.
It must be that they truly don’t believe there was a lab leak, or that they don’t care either way. Covid is still Covid, regardless of its origin.