I didn't click the link because I don't want to give them views. Unlimited WHATABOUTISM replies when you point out the United States is currently dealing with Bird Flu, Listeria, and more covid variants because Americans won't mask, vaccinate, or quarantine.
This is the type of rhetoric that leads to stuff like "they're coming to eat your pets!" Reactionaries say the wrong things on purpose to justify their worldview. They know covid wasn't a Chinese bioweapon. They know Chinese people don't eat every animal they can get their hands on. And they know the US's response to covid is why it continues to spread.
They say these things because they want to depict China as amassing WMDs so the US can amass WMDs. They want to say covid was a bioweapon for ethnic cleansing so Isreal can continue murdering Palestinians. Depicting China as eating diseased wild animals feeds the narrative of "gommunism is when no food so they eat bugs and dogs to survive."
The language NPR uses is deliberately inflammatory.
It's not weird to describe the consensus origin of covid as infamous. It is infamous.
"It's not weird to describe the consensus view about North Korea as a mysterious and reclusive hermit kingdom"
Good point comrade they're the same