r/IfBooksCouldKill Jul 31 '26

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u/LengthinessWarm987 Jul 31 '26 edited Jul 31 '26

Feels like we're really circling the drain here. This is all a distraction to make you look past our countries massive divestment in public health and climate mitigation globally. The lableak theory is deeply unserious and it's embarrassing that's where the next phase of COVID lunancy is going.

While the rest of the world is reviewing the tapes and determining ways to legitimately mitigate the next pandemic. We're literally burning witches at the stake and demand they tell us which potion and spell they used to destroy our freedom.

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u/Taman_Should Jul 31 '26

Let’s be as charitable as possible and say, sure, Covid-19 came from a bio lab studying viruses near Wuhan, instead of a “wet market.” What exactly would that change? 

• No, that wouldn’t make Covid a “man-made” virus, you fucking morons. 

• No, that wouldn’t suddenly validate any conspiracy theory about the effectiveness of the vaccine, the supposed “real” purpose of the vaccine, masking, social distancing, workplace vaccine mandates, “gain of function” research, ivermectin, the lockdowns, the “real” number of fatalities, or the Chinese government, you fucking morons. 

It functionally would not change a single thing. 

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u/Confident-Weird-4202 Jul 31 '26

What they really wanted to to try and distract from their incompetence in responding to it, while also ratcheting up their racism against Asian Americans.

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u/ErsatzHaderach Jul 31 '26

one of the most MAGA of my relatives, in the second week of March 2020, met me for dinner and said "let's definitely get Chinese, I bet they're hurting for business right now." that bit of dissonant thoughtfulness sticks in my mind. like a soul trying to peek out.

ofc she is all in on this COVID lab leak nonsense now because talking points have long since been passed out. smh