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If they intentionally let out something that killed millions of people then it should be met with extremely hard sanctions or more to force change at the CCP.

If you let a country intentionally kills hundreds of thousands of people and enact no penalty they will only escalate.

Still - I'd say the chance it was intentional to be less than 1/1000. Chance it was by accident - and that they covered it up - to be fairly high.




I don’t think anyone disputes that they covered up the severity, that was clear in real-time.

The question is if this was an intentional lab leak as is being suggested, I’m curious to know what people expect to happen.

As you pointed out this has killed millions of people, seems like people are angling for a war.

That outcome is why the accusation that this is intentional is a very very serious accusation and not one that should be tossed around by a bunch of half cocked internet sleuths (not saying you are one, just in general).


If it were intentionally released, they'd have planted it at the CDC or somewhere else that studies coronaviruses so they wouldn't be the obvious ground zero. China intentionally releasing a virus in Wuhan makes no sense.


Totally agree, all this hullabaloo and these arm chair virologists remind me of this scene from the Simpsons https://youtu.be/BNpmJVa10PU




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