• TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com
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    19 days ago

    what I don’t understand is what rand paul is trying to get at. OK, let’s say covid did come from a lab leak. Would that have changed, in any way, how the pandemic was handled? IANAD, but I suspect not. I think it’s just rand’s inferiority complex about just being an optho while he’s talking to arguably one of the greatest infectious disease specialists on the planet.

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      19 days ago

      OK, let’s say covid did come from a lab leak. Would that have changed, in any way, how the pandemic was handled?

      The presumption is that China caused COVID, not domestic health policy. And that by falling to acknowledge Wuhan as the proximate cause of COVID, we are ignoring the clear and present danger of Chinese immigrants, Chinese trade, and interstate travel to the Chinese mainland.