The article it's referencing is here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202769119

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      2 years ago
      1. US/Fauci funds the Wuhan lab to do Gain-of-Function research on COVID. The lab accepts because hey, free money
      2. Chinese scientists do the actual intellectual lifting while the US just acquires their end result and keeps it in Ft. Belvoir/Ft Detrick
      3. the US fuck up and it escapes. (Ft Detrick shutdown 2019)
      4. knowing the coming damage, US personnel heavily seed it in China at the Wuhan military games so that they can lie and write it off as a Chinese lab leak.
  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Anyone have an article about it that’s not RT? RT is honestly one of the more reliable news sources there is imo but if I sent it to my lib friends they’d be like “RUSSIAN STATE MEDIA FAKE NEWS” but they also won’t bother to read a PNAS article

  • SovietyWoomy [any]
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    2 years ago

    Trump will leak proof that covid came from fort Detrick to own the libs. There will be a breakthrough in the Jan 6 hearings the next day and he'll be arrested for treason and Epstein'd within a week.

  • jackal [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I'm confused, this guy isn't an epidemiologist or biologist, he's an economist. What's he doing chairing the COVID-19 commission at Lancet?

    • metallicyarn [any]
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      2 years ago

      You ever see how much it costs to either submit a paper or gain access to a journal? That's why. Also from conditions the political-economical derive, even the most bought up bourgeois academics will fess up to it to some degree.

  • Commander_Data [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I personally believe the Ft. Detrick narrative. There were half a dozen schools shut down in the immediate vicinity in November of 2019 due to a highly transmissible respiratory virus. Covid was a product of usamriid and you'll have a tough time convincing me otherwise.

    • moujikman
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      2 years ago

      A close family member of mine got it and she lived in Frederick relatively near Ft Detrick. She said it was the worst flu she ever had and retrospectively she thinks she had covid. She never got covid after that despite being a nurse. Also, one of my other family members in the frederick area worked in nursing home and a mysterious respiratory virus killed a lot of the residents. I have more stories but I don't want to dox myself.

      • yellowparenti5 [none/use name]
        hexagon
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        2 years ago

        https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=outbreak+fairfax+county

        one of those? its 55 miles from ft detrick

        • moujikman
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          2 years ago

          No, one about 10 miles from ft detrick in Myersville. It never made the news as far as I'm aware. Those things didn't always make the news pre-covid.

    • BynarsAreOk [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I like that theory too, but it is still possible that it is just a coincidence and that some American(maybe even some gov agent) caught the virus abroad and then traveled to the US in early 2019.

      It doesn't explain how the virus got to China other than some unlucky person caught it near some foreigner in a T1 city and then traveled to Wuhan after.

      It is practically almost undeniable that the virus existed for quite some time before before December 2019 already.

      • Commander_Data [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        There was an international armed forces athletic competition in Wuhan in November of 2019, there's a link in this thread from an armed forces news site detailing all the US armed forces folks who competed there.

  • comi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It doesn’t say usa biolab though

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Another nice linked article https://www.rt.com/news/558110-european-commission-pfizer-texts/

    Love seeing these hoity toity moralistic white supremacist EU scumbags showing their corruption.

  • shiteyes2 [any]
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    2 years ago

    I'd like to see the specs they had in mind when they made this thing. But on the other hand I don't really trust an economist's opinion on epidemiology.