The last year they've been going non-stop with the anti-China shit. Now they're dropping all pretext and are just running stories like "So when we gonna start war with China, fwends? UwU"
I don't care what you think about China. This shit is stupid. We don't need war in the middle of a pandemic, even if it just ends up being a trade war. We'd lose that war. Call me a paranoid freak but this kind of shit terrifies me.
It's honestly so depressing. It's fucked up that the whole "did corona escape from a Chinese bioweapon lab?" thing is being discussed by reputable news sources, and all the discussion is like "there is no evidence in either direction, but what if..." I feel like we are at the point where you could make any claim about the monstrous things China is doing and most people would at least strongly suspect that it is true.
There's also no way to have like, any form of nuanced discussion with fucking anyone when the word China comes up. If the person leans towards conservative they lose their fucking minds and start foaming about how China is the literal devil and out to destroy the entire world and controls every politician like a puppet and needs to be nuked. If the person is any form of liberal they immediately into a tirade about how coronavirus must have been made as a bioweapon because China arrested the guy who first reported it or something, and also needs to be nuked.
It's like the only people who don't wanna see China nuked are leftists and even that depends on the person.
Literally got called a communist like it was a bad thing today for saying I don't think China is any more evil then the west.
Not even for saying anything good about China.
I've been in near shouting matches for suggesting that maybe those articles that mention Covid-19 antibodies in Spain and Italy back in September might lend credence to the anecdotes of people who got knock out sick in the fall before anyone had even heard of Covid, and makes a bit more sense to me personally than apparently one dude eating tainted bat meat in a relatively obscure (to the West anyway) Chinese city and somehow spreading that worldwide within a month.
US lab theory is fun to throw in peoples' faces, see my other comment here.
John Birch Society 2.0
This has been the case on reddit for years now.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9
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Let's form an independent tribunal to find Br*tain guilty for... well take your pick really.
I just turn it back around, being up the theory that its from a US lab, got out and blended in as flu like symptoms in late 2019 inside the US til it reached China, then china identified the new virus. It explains why the US is doing so dogshit at containing it, cuz its been around longer and spread further than they will ever tell us. Comparisons to the 1918 Spanish flu are apt when making this argument, it also came from the US and was first reported on by and blamed on a different country. The reasons the US wasnt honest even line up in both spots, in 1918 the US didnt want to appear weak in the middle of WW1 so the government ignored it, in 2020 Trump didnt want to appear weak for his re-election so his government ignored it.