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Originally Posted by crystalworks
I agree with you that it does not make sense for it to be a purposeful act on the part of the CCP. Much more likely an accident by an understaffed, undertrained, and over-worked facility which the CCP then wanted to discredit and cover up because it doesn't look very good. Nevermind pissing off the world community. The question regarding their culpability was more rhetorical, I don't think there is any chance anyone is recovering anything from China willingly. Other options for hurting them financially (tariffs, etc) hurt the citizens of every country participating. Just another tax. 
I don't trust what the WHO says at all anymore. Media has to be double and triple checked all the time and has it's own agenda depending on what you're watching. It's no wonder most of the country just picks a political side and always sides with them regardless of job performance/results. The time and effort required is more than most voters are willing to put in.
Hopefully, as time goes by, most of the facts will leak out or be discovered. But with the grip the CCP has on China and the people, I think what actually happened will never be known with 100% certainty. Just one more conspiracy to be debated.  |
crystalworks:
I agree with your assessment. I think the COVID-19 virus probably was somehow accidentally released/escaped from the Wuhan lab and spread from there. But , alas, I think that we will most likely never be able to prove it and know for sure due to the world-wide embarrassment that the Chinese would experience, as well as the well-deserved condemnation of China from the rest of the world that would surely result, more so than has already happened.
I think that almost everyone wants to get over this worldwide virus pandemic and start to resume some level of pre-COVID normalcy in their lives. That is understandable but also may be wishful thinking, to a certain degree. We have learned a number of very important and life-style changing lessons over the past year that will transform our country and many others, ranging from how we interact with strangers to how we conduct our work habits and routines and where we are located to perform that work.
Most normal, intelligent, educated people will be just glad to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and then get annual booster injections for whatever the evolving virus mutations start to spread, just like our annual influenza vaccinations. They understand that the vaccines are not 100% effective and that we still do not know all of their possible short and long term possible side affects. But we also understand that at this point, the benefits far outweigh the known risks, in order to take a major step in protecting ourselves and others from this awful virus pandemic.
The real wake-up call should be that this may not be a 1 in 100 years event, but that zoological viruses could materialize and spread again on a more frequent basis, due to our infringement into previously wild nature areas, as well as some cultures insistence on using all types of wildlife for either food or supposed health ailment cures. Sometimes, man can be his own worst enemy....
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