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Actually the US and the wider world has had access to this sort of stuff because peer review means sharing knowledge.

https://thevirginiastar.com/2021/06/07/american-higher-educa...

Covid is a fart in a room and China was first smeller so first stinker.

Waste water samples from other countries show it was around months before China went official so were those other country's just keeping quiet?

Besides, its not like you can stamp Made in China, Made in US on viruses so Covid is resigned to the conspiracy theory books, and even if someone came forward to own up that it was some state biological weapon, the country in question can just play the mental health card on the whistle-blower. Very few people can afford to step out of line because it would put their family at risk and even if they could afford, there is always the getting knocked over by a bus risk.

So many ways Covid can be plausibly spun, its probably just best to keep abreast of the news, reduce risks where possible and get on with life so you don't have any regrets or at least have lived life as fully as humanly possible however that might be.



Other countries weren't the first one with crematorium running 24/7 with staff breaking down on social media. Also other countries did not censor the event then detained a doctor who just posted a warning txt to his colleagues in private chat. Let's not even go into the whole deny WHO visitations years after.

I especially like the kicker, alpha variant isn't even the one found in Wuhan. Good job on whoever made that happen.


You dont have much experience of national health care systems do you?

China is a developing country it doesnt have the established early warning systems in place that developed countries have for monitoring potential health risks and they dont have the contingencies or over engineering in place that other countries have.

Simple example for you to understand, take the new VW Golf R, officially its 320hp and 420nm 1550kg, power to weight ratio is worse than the Seat Cupra Leon R at 300hp and 400nm 1392kg, yet why is it performing better than the Seat. You can watch the mystery here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycKWQBCpwMg but let me tell you, sandbagging technology, ability, performance, what ever you want to call it is a valid technique, I believe its even mentioned by this Chinese philosopher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War

So are we "watching" a magic trick of sorts and if so who is the magician in this case? Is it Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics?

I find many GP's to be "useful idiots", they know what they have been taught, I love pushing them towards jihard aka cognitive dissonance when I have to interact with them but if you are clever enough, you could create a system which could even keep them in the dark. Try to think how clever terrorists might work, so take a look at the security services around the world like the CIA for example. Look at the things they have done in the past! Shocking! Shocking I Say!


FYI, the wastewater story you refer to was clearly nonsense and has not withstood any serious scrutiny. But, I agree with your larger point.


Perhaps such a stamp should be required for gain of function research to continue? (preferably somewhere in Antarctica)




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