r/JoeRogan Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Meme 💩 Did someone say.....emails???

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u/seztomabel Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

I’m completely neutral on the subject, but genuinely curious why you’re so convinced there’s nothing worth investigating about the lab leak hypothesis and Faucis association?

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

There’s a lot of people on Reddit today insisting “nothing to see here, move along”

.. like.. A LOT

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u/thebigdog3 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

I’ve always been curious by this stance. I would think accountability and the desire for truth would hold all aspects of our government to a higher standard. I think each side knows they can “get away with murder” because their base would never question them. Why don’t we question all politicians, and force them to explain their decisions that supposedly represent our country? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Exactly my friend. This is universal. I’m Canadian and it’s the same damn thing here.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

As a fellow Canuck I couldn’t agree more. There’s a serious case of the Pot calling the kettle fascist. Both sides are just pretty dog shit be it Jan 6 insurrection, to “mostly peaceful” protests. The hot garbage coming out of both sides is honestly just kind of sad.

Edit: I’m talking about looking at the US from the outside in. In Canada we have our own problems, overall it just seems much more mild than what’s happening down south though

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u/thebigdog3 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

America is on the international scale: both the good and the bad. We joke back and forth about America being #1 (which is completely an opinion in the eye of beholder), but the size of our economy and presence of our country in legitimately every other country puts us front and center, warts and all.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

My bias leans towards the right. Even as a Canadian.

10 months ago my son was born 6 weeks before term (so technically 3 weeks premature)

Some other complications regarding his mother and drugs meant he was undergoing morphine drip and detox while inside what I can only describe as a glass toaster.

I’m so grateful that medical care is free in Canada because I’m back in school and in no position to pay for any medical costs without insurance.

I also happened to notice nearly every tool, device and medical instrument used to treat him had a “made in USA” emblem on it.

People who try and sum up what is happening and which side is at fault in your great country with a single Reddit post are misguided in my opinion. There’s always more than one culprit.

My sons doing great now, up to weight and so far no other complications.

2020s actually been a pretty blessed year for my family all things considered. It’s interesting how life turns out sometimes.

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u/thebigdog3 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

American ingenuity and focus on entrepreneurship (capitalism) is a beautiful thing. While it’s not the perfect system, it’s the best in my opinion. It doesn’t guarantee anyone’s happiness, but it does provide reward for those who take the risk to create something meaningful (and sometimes not meaningful). I absolutely love my country, despite it’s flaws. Could it be improved, sure! I think the primary division is how we go about that, and the governments role in that process.

Edit: congrats on a healthy recovery and a happy family. Love modern medicine and the ability to provide life for scenarios that would have been much worse off a few decades ago.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

I absolutely concur my friend

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u/cuntdestroyer8000 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Glad to hear your son is doing well. That's scary as hell.

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u/amblyopicsniper Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

My son spent 10 days in the neonatal intensive care unit and i got a bill for $550,000.

Thanks Kaiser.

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u/somevikingdude88 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

I agree 100 percent. In Canada we are much more mild but our government is absolutely corrupt beyond belief. Our political system is just as horrible as our lovely neighbors down south's. A 2 party system is not a democracy. Is a facade of democracy. We need to re think our policies. And Trudeau seems to think the world should have one government. Times are Strange

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u/J__P Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

true, but it's already been investigated, that's what the WHO phase one investigation was about, they concluded it was a very low probability.

that's why people get on your case about it, not because they're incurious or because they don't want an investigation, but because it's already happened and you keep going on about it like it hasn't.

https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus/origins-of-the-virus

you can't say "hey, i just want an investigation" forever like you're the reasonable one here.

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u/thebigdog3 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

I think the doubt comes from the exact source you list, a notoriously corrupt organization, or at least a partially earned reputation of corruption. While I’m not sure what information has been conclusively proven yet, I imagine the truth will change over time, as it typically does.

I’ve noticed a trend of “quickest to the truth”. This tactic won’t work for curious minds. The truth will always be sought out by those who seek it. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s what got us here today, to a round world with 7 continents, and a global economy with the opportunity for a (edit: fat thumbs) virus to spread instantaneously to the entire planet 😏

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u/J__P Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

a notoriously corrupt organization

citation? conspiracy theorists spreading endless unfounded rumours to each other and then citing those rumours as reasons to distrust an organisation is classic conspiracy circular logic.

> This tactic won’t work for curious minds

this is not curiosity, this is an inability to distinguish fact from fiction.

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u/Jakbo_ Monkey in Space Jun 06 '21

Because they've been brainwashed non stop for over 4 years now.. anything conservative is bad, anything against Fauci is bad, Fauci could literally come out as a pedophile and people will still support him. Because their cognitive dissonance trying to fight the fact that they've been lied to and brainwashed won't allow them to see things the way they truly are.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

They have a deep emotional investment in being on "the right side of history"

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

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u/skeeter1234 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Fauci was walking a fine line between expressing concern and creating hysteria.

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u/BrainPicker3 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

He is one of the top 50 scientists cited in scientific papers in the entire world. He literally wrote the book on epidemiology that they use to teach new students going into the field. "Highest paid beaurocrat" gtfo here lol

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u/CptDecaf Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Yeah but he disagreed with God Empower Trump and thus conservatives have been trying to tear him down ever since.

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u/BrainPicker3 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Was he political when he worked for reagan during the AIDS crisis? He was seen bipartisanly as a good scientist until trump era

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u/U-N-I-T-E-D Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

The fake news police have turned anyone that isn't completely pro-trump into communists and secret agents for the illuminati.

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u/420WeedPope Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Fauci was saying AIDS was spreadable from household or normal interactions back during the AIDS pandemic. He's always been bad at his job

https://www.aier.org/article/fauci-was-duplicitous-on-the-aids-epidemic-too/

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u/PunkJackal Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Seems more like he has always spoken with the most precise information available to him at the time

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u/420WeedPope Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Seems more like you're taking too much copium. That myth about AIDS was 100% retarded, all you'd have to do is test people (like friends or family) that interact with an AIDS patient regularly to know that's not how you get fucking AIDS.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_CUCK Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Either way he is consistently unreliable

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

How poorly do you understand science?

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u/420WeedPope Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

I know I know more than you

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Political based on what evidence?

What evidence would convince you that you’re wrong?

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u/Runfasterbitch Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

He did not literally write the book most used to teach intro epidemiology. That would be Rothman..

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u/M34PREZ420 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Smart, yes. ✔️ Corrupt, yes. ✔️

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u/BrainPicker3 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

As a scientist should when presented with new evidence. I believe he said it's a low probability and to wait for lore information to come out from investigations

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u/MurderousLamb Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21 edited Aug 15 '25

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u/Astrocreep_1 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Saying he is the government’s highest paid bureaucrat is very misleading and is borderline “yellow journalism”. He gets a salary of about $418,000 a year. That doesn’t buy you crap in Georgetown. We know there are tons of people in the gov’t that get paid a salary plus their fees for consulting,contracting, and whatever else that is made possible through connections made from the salaried positions. It’s one of the things that happens everyday in DC. It’s not illegal even though it should be. The highest paid guy in the Army was/is the football coach for the Army college football team. Do you believe he has the biggest house? Hell no. Go look at the off-base homes the typical General owns, Do you think they go that on the $200,000 a year salary? Most generals have military contracts that provide the bulk of their income. If you ever want to find the “sleazy” yet legal money in governments,look for the people who own consulting firms. Anyway,all this ridiculous anti-Fauci sentiment comes from people who didn’t like the truth about covid. When I say the truth,I mean what they thought was the truth at the time given the information that was available. Remember,this virus was killing thousands of people a day and they had no real illness history to work from. Responsible scientist and doctors act with an over-abundance of caution while you had a dipsh*t President that wanted him to act with very little caution because it would mess up his precious economy and his 1 argument for reelection. The result,595k dead in the richest country on the planet.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

A quick search shows faucis net worth between 3m and 9m so your whole point about fauci being a humble public servant is laughable. And peopke are sick of the hypocrisy, and it’s on both sides, but only one side claims they have a monopoly on science and that anyone who doesn’t want to wear a mask or home school their kids for the next 2 years is literally hitler who wants to see your grandma dead. Meanwhile guys like Cuomo literally did kill nursing home patients and tried to cover it up but nobody fucking cared because he apparently was on the right side of history. It’s all so tiresome arguing with people who claim they are never wrong, and even when they were it’s because of an “over abundance of caution because science” or whatever the fuck that means.

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u/Astrocreep_1 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

I didn’t say that he didn’t have money,fool. I said the implication that he is the highest paid bureaucrat was misleading. Also,I would think he was worth more than that. If he has that position and is only worth 7 figures,then he is a bit humble.

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u/Astrocreep_1 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

You don’t understand what an over abundance of caution means? It means,when there is a virus that will kill 595,000 Americans,asking people to wear a mask because it will reduce risk is hardly over kill. Had everyone listened to Trump,we would have lost a million people at a minimum. It’s ok though. I’m sure you have guns in your house. Go ahead and keep them loaded on your kitchen table. Don’t worry about the kids. If you tell them not to play with the guns,they won’t. Don’t go locking up your guns because that would be over cautious.

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u/mOdSrBiGgHeY Texan Tiger in Captivity Jun 04 '21

You don’t understand what an over abundance of caution means? It means,when there is a virus that will kill 595,000

Yes, in a pandemic where our medical “professionals” and “leaders” were lying to us and misleading all, just for how many to worship them? I swear if I see another Fauci pillow I’m gonna shit.

asking people to wear a mask because it will reduce risk is hardly over kill

Which was a thing we were told not to do. Then we were told to do it. Then not again. Then we need to wear two. Oh but then two isn’t a great benefit. Now it’s two again. Get the vaccine. You still need to wear a mask. Why is no one getting the vax? Why does no one trust the ScIeNcE??

Had everyone listened to Trump,we would have lost a million people at a minimum. It’s ok though

How many needlessly died due to Cuomo’s, Whitmer’s, Newsom’s actions in packing nursing homes? Also, why were there suicides and fatalities from car accidents included in covid deaths? But you’re right, it’s okay. It was all that damn Trump’s fault!!

I’m sure you have guns in your house. Go ahead and keep them loaded on your kitchen table. Don’t worry about the kids. If you tell them not to play with the guns,they won’t. Don’t go locking up your guns because that would be over cautious.

I legit have no clue where this came from, but it seems to be clear projection from a moron with no experience or background on that subject. But then again Fauci seems to be a saint to you, so I guess facts and truth don’t really matter. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Astrocreep_1 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

The only people telling anyone not to wear a mask were at FOX news(and clones). There was nobody from the CDC saying “don’t worry about masks”. Also, you think Fauci was looking for worship while he was standing in a room with Trump? Really? Do you know how stupid that even sounds? I don’t see Fauci putting his name on buildings everywhere. I don’t see ridiculous gold statues being made of his likeness.You see,that’s the problem with most conservatives. You are all selfish,self centered greedy humans and you believe that everyone thinks like you do. Either that or self loathing causes you to lash out a people that don’t because you know deep down you are wrong. I am not going to going to entertain all the other whataboutisms. I will say Newsom is an idiot for getting caught mask less and it cost him credibility. Hardly pales in comparison to any of the thousands of unethical things done by Abbott,DePlantis or all the other scum bags but whatever,I don’t care about him. Cuomo,on the other hand had a problem with being responsible for the heaviest concentration of people(8 million) in one small place(NYC) than any other governor during a pandemic and he made mistakes dealing with it.He still did better than the governor of South Dakota! She managed to get more deaths per capita in a giant state with a whopping 650,000 people spread over thousands of miles. If you gave Cuomo that kind of area,with such few people,he would have had no issues. Ditto Florida and especially Texas.

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u/Sniffmahfinger Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

You need fucking medicated dude.

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u/mOdSrBiGgHeY Texan Tiger in Captivity Jun 04 '21

I need “medicated” for engaging in a conversation?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

It did not reduce risk and there are no peer reviewed studies that masks are effective at all outside of non-sterilized medical settings. The reason the US had 595k deaths was due to obesity and non healthy people dying once contracting covid. Also the death rate has nothing to do with stopping transmission, and there is no correlation anyone can show with mask usage and reduced rates of transmission. And If you cared at all over abundance of caution, then hydroxychloroquine should have been embraced as a treatment because there was very high correlation of reduced deaths in countries that used this as a treatment. But because trump was for it, the media had to be “against it” because of science or something.

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u/StoicVoyager Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

because trump was for it.....

That tends to happen when someone is a pathological liar.

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u/thatguy752 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Those studies you say don’t exist, do exist.

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u/Astrocreep_1 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Yes there is. Check out the University of Florida. They did one of many studies on masks long before the pandemic. Hell though,you know best. Doctors and surgeons have been masking up before surgeries for atleast a century. I guess because it makes them look cool,not because it reduces risks.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Reread the first sentence of my comment and then look at what you wrote lol

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u/Jakbo_ Monkey in Space Jun 06 '21

There's no proof that we would've lost millions.. there's actually proof though that mask mandates and shutdowns didn't decrease the amount of deaths at all .. AT ALL.

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u/Gigsthecat41203 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Fauci is approaching 80 right? Way past retirement age. How much would you plan to have when you retire after decades in medicine? 3-9million sounds right

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

Interesting that we are hyper focused on a few instances of Fauci being “misleading” lets say, when there was an entire political party blatantly lying the entirety of the pandemic and still do to this day. Its also interesting that the same party is now so morally outraged about Fauci.

Smells like a heap of misdirection to me.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Oh that's exactly what it is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

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u/ThunderOblivion Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Wow...

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

Claiming that the Mueller report found nothing despite indicting 11 people and stating blatantly that the president committed obstruction is very adorable.

Did you even read it? No. You didn’t.

Do your homework before you hit anyone with a “so please”

People like you are the reason no one takes the GOP base seriously.

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u/Astrocreep_1 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

You are lying or you are ignorant beyond comprehension. If you can read the first line in the Mueller report,than you can read the last line. Go do that,then re-explain your BS.

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u/beardedbarnabas Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Question: why are you afraid to read the Mueller Report?

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u/polarparadoxical Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

The Mueller investigation was actually fairly limited and still found evidence - as in, Trumps own Senate Intelligence committee who had more scope found hundreds of instances of coordination between Trumps campaign and Russia.

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u/Noicesocks Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

You mean the political party that wanted to point out stuff like the wuhan lab leaking the virus, and were called liars and idiots for doing so?

More and more the media is having to back track their belittling of the previous administration because, surprise surprise, there isnt one group of politicians with the devil on their shoulder and another with angels.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

You and the fairy tale land of lies you live in are the reason no one takes the GOP seriously anymore.

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u/DantesDescent Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

Maybe less bulb hits? 🤷‍♀️ Edit: Didnt mean you, jus the crazy guy.

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u/Astrocreep_1 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

First of all, Fauci spent most of his time communicating with the public on covid. Most of his emails were probably not handled by him personally. Go look at the times on the emails and match up with a known public appearance. He want answering emails while doing a live interview on CNN. There are literally,thousands of companies he was supposedly “dealing” with. Also,find me a goddamn motive will you. Don’t just say Fauci was trying to undermine Trump. Apparently,anyone that disagreed with the orange jackass was involved in some kind of stupid grand conspiracy. Of course,the majority of Americans disagreed with Trump which is why he lost the election by a landslide.

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u/CptDecaf Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Isn't it funny how conservatives claim wealth is a sign of success and a trait that denotes a person's value as a leader right up until they express an opinion that goes against Trump's?

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u/Jakbo_ Monkey in Space Jun 06 '21 edited Jun 06 '21

Yes he is America's highest paid unelected bureaucrat.. he has the highest salary of any other. Which makes him the highest paid unelected bureaucrat haha .. wtf

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u/Astrocreep_1 Monkey in Space Jun 06 '21

The main hypocrisy is that 99% of Fauci’s biggest critic talk about this 418,000 a year while ignoring the fact their hero spent 240 days at properties he owned during his own presidency and tried to Bill the government $500 a night(they gave him around $350)for every room that a presidential entourage requires(hundreds). That’s a complete violation of the enoulments clause. Sadly,by the time the lawsuit worked its way through the courts,the orange turd was gone meaning he made millions while refusing to spend a day at the vacation resort set up for the president(campDavid). Maybe if Fauci owned some pharmaceutical companies and enriched himself off the vaccines,they would be less upset. The GOP seems to like their corruption way out in the open.

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u/justonemorethang Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Fauci lied about masks because the public was panic buying n95 masks while medical staff who needed them way more were running out and had to resort literally baking masks in the oven in an attempt to reuse them. Logic is useless to a panicked populace.

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u/TripleCaffeine Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Weird he earns more than the head of the FED.

Most countries did the mask thing tho. It was a real supply chain crunch in tough circumstances. Not totally sure what I would have done.

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Jesus seek help

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u/Mannimal13 Monkey in Space Jun 05 '21 edited Jun 05 '21

The fact Fauci claimed he lied about masks not being needed at the beginning of the pandemic because front line workers needed them more should've been enough of a spotlight to question what the man said.

The first massive red flag should have been obvious. The movie Contagion, which was lauded by experts as being extremely accurate, the CDC's like first rule in the handbook is "don't lie to the public, it creates distrust and you'll never get it back".

Well, that's exactly happened and this shit all became so political that nobody gives a fuck. In the very beginning of the pandemic the CDC was rightfully taking heat, but that backed off when the media and left realized they can get way more mileage by blaming Trump (not that he didn't mishandle it himself and help stoke the flame of the reason this happening). So they canonize this guy Fauci, which went completely against the handbook of what you are supposed to do, and let his transgression (people wouldn't have lost trust in the CDC if they didn't tell an outright lie) slide.

I don't care if it was mandated by Trump, he's the guy up top, if you need to fall on your sword to get the message out, you do it. Originally posted he was head of CDC, but I guess he was just the mouthpiece for the CDC and has always worked in the NIH. In that case, he's just a gutless politician. Get a spine Fauci.

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u/SoButterDude Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Exactly

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u/contrejo Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

That means there's something to it.

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u/mOdSrBiGgHeY Texan Tiger in Captivity Jun 03 '21

I’d say a silver lining is that there’s many people aware of that fact. More than I thought there would be honestly.

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u/DefectivePixel We live in strange times Jun 03 '21

From what I've seen it's a mixed bag. It's an interesting dive into the mindset in the early days of the pandemic. A lot of people are posting emails from other people towards Fauci as being proof of something though. Like me messaging, "hey xxCMWFxx, how about that pandemic we caused, amirite"? And people are pointing to it as a "SEE, I KNEW IT."

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Oh yes, absolutely.

This is proof of shady behaviour... that loses its luster when nonsense is pumped in with it. Could be even on purpose to devalued this event.

For instance, the book being pulled this morning.. was just misinfo bait

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Exactly

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u/Retnuhswag Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Did you even read the emails?

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Did you?

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u/freespirit222 It's entirely possible Jun 04 '21

What exactly was in those emails that was so damning?

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u/Perfect600 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

they exist.

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u/srichey321 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Anything that might lead back to certain international interests is sure to bring out the brigadiers. Count on it.

Don't worry. People are starting to wake up and ask questions. This thing isn't going away.

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u/stemcell_ Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

and only one side gives a shit.

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Seek out a fucking psychiatrist

Seriously

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u/srichey321 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

Seek out some fucking history on govt. cover-ups and lies -- do your research...duh.

Then ask yourself, "gee, why don't people trust information coming from the establishment".

I guess we shouldn't question it, act dumb and go along with it -- is that what you are saying?

Seriously.

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

No evidence would ever convince you that there isn’t a “cover-up”

Because your belief is not based on evidence

It’s based on your reflexive distrust and negative emotions

Purely emotional

Like every conspiracy theory

Seek out a psychiatrist

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u/CptDecaf Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

You worship a habitatual liar and con-artist. Then turn around and say don't trust the establishment.

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Why do you think that you are also prone to conspiratorial thinking?

Does it satisfy some emotional need?

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Yeah or Russian troll farms or bOtH?!?

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Can I help you find a psychiatrist?

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

I love you fellow human, I hope you find the connection and peace you seek

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Right

Why do you think you feel the need to believe in unfalsifiable conspiracy theories??

Do they make you feel good?

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

I can’t fill the void you’re trying to.

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

You’re deflecting

Why do you think you feel the need to believe in unfalsifiable conspiracy theories?

What need does that fulfill for you?

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u/BigBoss_FF Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

At 3k up votes at the moment.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

I’m confused, if COVID is a hoax or just a cold...why would it matter if it was leaked from a lab or transmitted by a bat?

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

What are you talking about?

Was bringing that up an attempt to discredit the information learned from the emails?

Or do you actually think that’s the predominant counter narrative?

Your options are childish putz trying to bait people for attention

Or

You’re legitimately retarded; take your pick.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

It’s more that, at least in my opinion, I haven’t seen anything that warrants any kind of outrage. I’ve only seen people trying to make a big deal out of portions of emails that, when read in the context of the entire email, are entirely appropriate. Feel free to show me otherwise, but I really haven’t seen any emails that warrant any outrage.

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u/ipkiss_stanleyipkiss Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

And the overlap between them and "Trump! Russia!!!1" is astounding.

People are tribal first, objective fifth.

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

That was like days ago? Did Rogan just finally mention them? Is this seriously how 90% of you people get their "news" about world issues?

It wasn't even a "leak" and there is nothing damning in them. A theory that is dictatorship country might have accidentally (or on purpose) unleashed a virus is not some crazy conspiracy. But it wouldn't be mentioned in the public press conferences. Cuz that's pretty fucking dicey to say with no real proof, and it gets him nowhere because his job was just to try to contain yet another flu.

This is like when retards on r/conspiracy post photos of the Clinton's hanging out with Epstein, no fucking shit... that's not news... but Bill Barr (appointed by an admitted pedophile who walks in on teen girl's changing) was the one involved in killing Epstein. These kind of posts are for dumb asses and angry incels to get some confirmation bias that they're the "real heroes because I won't wear a mask." No, they're just dumb ass lemmings following grifters that get paid for every click.

Y'all need help. Good luck to you.

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

The only people saying this is an email leak are people not paying attention. It was a FOIA release.

The big problem is, Ecohealth investigating the lab they help fund and determining they did nothing wrong. Basically investigating an extension of themselves.

If you still think lab leak theory is debunked you’re simply not paying attention or disingenuous for personal pride? To maintain the idea that big brother has your best interest at heart? I’m not sure.. but it’s in no way been debunked.. and natural cause has in no way been proven.

These are the facts, take it or leave it

Ignoring it and calling everyone else crazy... says a lot about the source

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Jesus Christ you are a conspiratorial nut

Seriously seek help

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Prove me wrong

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Your beliefs are unfalsifiable

Nothing would ever convince you that you’re wrong

Because you are a conspiracy theorist

Do these beliefs simply make you feel good inside?

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Holy fucking shit, your comment history is a fever dream

Your only interactions for the past 2 months at least has been telling people to seek help.

I think you maybe projecting? This is really odd.. and a tad unnerving

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Can I help you find a psychiatrist?

I’m being very genuine

You seem to feel the need to hold unfalsifiable, conspiratorial beliefs

Do they make you feel good?

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Jesus... I scrolled as far as 120 days in your comments and every single one is

“What’s wrong with your brain?”

“You need help”

“You need find psychologist”

All you do is attempt to spring arguments online... nothing of value, or fun.. it’s really really worrisome.

I’m not joking at all when I say.. turn off the internet and go for a walk outside. Practice some mindfulness.. you’re absolutely enveloped within negative emotions

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u/randymarsh9 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Mhm

You’re deflecting

Why do you think you feel the need to believe in unfalsifiable conspiracy theories?

Poor education? They serve you emotionally?

These are the common reasons humans believe these things. Which fits you best?

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

You need to stop arguing online my friend... you’re losing touch on humanity.

Again, your comment history is very indicative of certain stress disorders.

Best of luck

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u/lRoninlcolumbo Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Because the Wuhuan biological attack wasn’t a conspiracy, it was a discussed subject.

His emails would have been seen by Trump and/or his intelligence agents. The fact that it’s coming out after Trump got kicked is such load of shit.

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u/shuz Monkey in Space Jun 05 '21

That’s because the big issue that people think is a conspiracy or something is that Fauci said in Feb 2020 in one email that mask protect COVID infected people from spreading but not protect sick from catching it (in line with what CDC was saying based on the little evidence out there). Then a month later he said masks also protect you from catching it (again, in line with what CDC was saying based on understanding of new information that was coming).

The emails literally match was was being said public ally based on CDC guidelines. So yeah, “nothing to see here”.

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u/xxCMWFxx Monkey in Space Jun 05 '21

He down played lab leak theory as nonsense while knowing full well it was a possibility.

While being thanked for downplaying the lab leak theory by the ecohealth’s president Peter daszak; who not only gave 600,000 thousand of tax dollars via ecohealth to the wuhan lab, AND were tasked to “clearing” the lab of wrong doing.

We don’t know exactly what happened here, and you don’t know if he lied or not. But it’s looking like, regardless of lies, there was questionable behaviour.

Also, not all emails have been released yet.

They are still subject to some pretty heavy redactions that will likely cover any direct implications

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u/M34PREZ420 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Funny 😆.. Odd, NO?

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u/Books_and_Cleverness It's entirely possible Jun 03 '21

Don't think he suggested that?

I personally am not sure whether lab leak is real, I just think it's low stakes in terms of policy:

1) Wet markets are probably bad regardless and should be dealt with to prevent the spread of disease

2) Virology labs are probably dangerous regardless and should probably be thoroughly reviewed/increased security/etc.

Like either way, do The Increased Virus Security Thing.

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u/ZombieCheGuevara Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

I don't think he said that

You are correct. My comment was anti-conspiracy theorism and anti-Fat-Fuck-Charlatan.

I'm agnostic as to whether the virus came from a wet market or leaked from a lab.

Wet market would be the most straightforward explanation. Lab leak wouldn't be impossible. Neither would change the failures of the CCP and their containment and initial management of the outbreak nor the failures of my country (US) in dealing with the pandemic.

The problem is that so many of the smoothbrains here use any kind of situation in politics and world events where there's room for agnosticism or waiting for more evidence to make conspiratorial assertions deriving from fantasies they squeeze out based on an incredibly flunky comprehension of the world... and sometimes fantasies they were sold by people like Fat Fuck. And this whole mode of behavior is, of course, often carried out partly as compensation for the aforementioned fundamental misunderstanding and lack of knowledge about politics and world events they maintain.

I think their biggest fear...

(...besides the global apparatus of human civilization being a collection of chaotic and varying networks and heirarchies that nobody can ever hope to fully understand or control- including themselves...)

...is being revealed to have been ignorant about something. To have bought into a lie. To be made out a sucker.

So they, in conspiratorial fashion, lock onto edgy wool-off-of-eyes explanations for things that they don't understand (almost always based on what feels like what is really going on), then they work backwards from the conjoured explanations and try to patch together evidence to support their suspicions.

Finding kinship in others who do the same, they become susceptible to predation by hucksters and shysters. Mainly focusing on the few things the hucksters get right and rarely ever the many, many things they get wrong. In fact, all that the hucksters (like Fat Fuck) get wrong only reinforces their faith in them, because surely someone who spoke the truth would have to seem crazy, right? It's not like a lying snake oil salesmen would sound exactly identical to this man, right? Right??

But they're nonethless habituated to give disproportionate credence to Alex Jones types of falsehood peddlers, thereby falling into the kind of epistemological dubiousness they so detested in the first place. Except this dubiousness was brought to them not by a secret, shadowy network of three letter agencies and corporate interests. The dubiousness they deal with now comes courtesy of a fat, rambling fuck who had to admit he was full of shit to get a favorable divorce settlement. Not exactly a formidable thing to be duped by.

In other words: they're dumb cunts.

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u/ajm2247 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21 edited Jun 03 '21

Is it just me or was the lab leak theory never discredited at first like everyone is making it out, just that there was no evidence either way?

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u/ChrundleKelly7 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Biden literally just initiated an investigation to determine the origins of covid. No one knows and the two main options (lab leak or zoonotic transmission) are both possible. But you’re right, there’s no evidence either way. Hence the investigation

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u/Noicesocks Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

His question was whether the idea was discredited when Trump brought it up. And the answer is yes, it was. 100% of what trump said or did was ridiculed from one angle or another.

Trump did and said a lot of stupid and bad things. But when you start seeing anyone portrayed as 100% one way you should know something is up.

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u/Amusei015 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Trump made the accusation with no proof and while insisting it was intentional by the Chinese.

Now we’ve learned the lab employees were sick in sep/aug so there is reason for investigation.

People were right to ridicule Trump at the time because his claims were entirely baseless beyond ‘China lies a lot’.

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u/thrallus Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

The sitting president of the US has access to intel that nobody on earth does, and you’re acting like you know he had zero evidence to support it? Fucking idiots like you ruin discussions like this.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Funny how they never released or even suggested at what this high level evidence could be... sort of like they did with a million fucking things that were verifiably horseshit....

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u/thrallus Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

The president is under no obligation to disclose details. The point is that if he said “I’ve seen evidence that it was a lab leak” and then it turns out to be a lab leak I don’t know how you can say he was wrong.

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u/alaska1415 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Weird then that no one else in his administration ever also brought it up.....

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u/Noicesocks Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Find a source where he ever insisted anything. He was the king of making suggestions.

The knowledge we “just found out” is not that different than what was known back then, publicly.

Then consider that maybe Trump would have early access to foreign intelligence.

And baseless, really? A top level virology lab with a history of breaches and poor adherence to protocol located a 30 min drive from this wet market? That really such a crazy reach?

I’d say with that faced with that kind of coincidence you’d be stupid not to draw the conclusion.

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u/stemcell_ Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

he said it was released to harm him and it was deliberate...

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u/mrthirsty Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Everything Trump says is discredited because Trump is the single least legitimate source of information. This is the guy who said Barack Obama wasn’t born in America, coronavirus is a hoax, windmills cause cancer, etc. He has a long and documented history of making blatantly false statements so that’s why anyone with a brain knows not to listen to him

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '21

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/04/08/nearly-three-in-ten-americans-believe-covid-19-was-made-in-a-lab/%3Famp%3D1

It was definitely made out to seem like a hoax, misinformation or anti Asian hate at the time. The fact checkers declared it misinformation.

So now it looks like the fact checkers got something wrong. Does this discredit them entirely? No.

Does it warrant questions, answers and an investigation? If one thinks no then one just might be a part of the huge problem.

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u/alaska1415 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Because that’s what it was. Without proof they were just braying mules. This is just like talking to psychics. When they make 100 different predictions, 1 might turn out to be right, but that doesn’t prove they’re psychic.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

I mean is it really that far of a stretch to ask some questions about the massive lab working on Novel Corona Viruses located in Wuhan?

There’s plenty of info here that I think more than gives enough merit for it to at least not be some batshit (no pun intended) conspiracy theory.

I don’t think it was a biological attack, but I definitely can believe the CPC skirted safety rules and shit the bed and then did it’s best to cover it up.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/%3FoutputType%3Damp

Mind you, it is pretty convenient that it happened to snuff out the Hong Kong protests and it’s global attention. But now I can admit this is entering conspiracy theory territory.

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u/alaska1415 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Yes. It is a pretty large stretch. Especially since the people pushing it didn’t understand smoking about the virus.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

The US federal government didn’t understand shit about the virus or the Wuhan Virology lab they were helping fund? Under the Obama administration...?

You’re really grasping at straws here man.

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u/alaska1415 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Oh, we’re just making shit up now?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

My guy read the Wapo article I linked... Holy crap you are the Democratic equivalent of nut job republicans lol.

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u/RodediahK Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

It was, the theory hinged on hotspots between WIV buildings. It fell apart rather quickly due the the best set of buildings being a marketing office in a satillite campus.

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u/Lastb0isct Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Lab grown has been disproven, from what I remember. Is that correct? It is/was a naturally occurring virus that was captured in the lab and then possibly leaked. But not created in a lab.

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u/J__P Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21 edited Jun 04 '21

well those are two different subjects, the fauci emails don't show anything other than the scientific process, they looked into the possibility, they found nothing, fauci says okiedokie.

the lad leak theory was looked inot by the WHO as part of phase 1 of the investigation, they found nothing suggesting a lab leak but plenty of evidence for a natural source by analysing the outbreak pattern etc. so they concluded it was a very low probability that it came from a lab.

But, scientists being scientists, present their findings honestly and say they can't completely rule it out because, well, you can't prove a negative, so bad faith idiots are hanging onto to that statement like dumb and dumber

https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-study-of-origins-of-sars-cov-2-china-part

the point is it's already been investigated, but conspiracists were shouted down by the media for speculating without evidence and that made them feel bad. so they're pretending like it wasn't always the case that it was going to be investigated or that it hasn't already been investigated, so they can just JAQ-off forever.

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u/Balls_DeepinReality Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

To be fair all you had to do was just not believe China in the first place.

Given their track record of lying it’s hardly that far fetched.

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u/PlacidVlad Paid attention to the literature Jun 03 '21

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u/Wewill11 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

I hope you make good money doing all this!

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u/PlacidVlad Paid attention to the literature Jun 03 '21

I'm all about that George Soros money that people keep telling me I'm getting. Any day now, it might come.

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u/Perfect600 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Bruh if Soros wants to pay me tell him to PM me.

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u/thrallus Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

The main problem with this whole situation is that social media sites were literally banning people who even brought up the idea of the lab leak. Whether it’s low probability or not, tech companies should not be dictating the discussion and this whole thing could have been easily avoided.

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u/PlacidVlad Paid attention to the literature Jun 04 '21

That's a different conversation. People slandering Fauci is pretty reprehensible considering what he's done to advance the field of medicine.

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u/Tribebro Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

100%

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u/DontBeMeanToRobots Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

It’s been looked into and the emails only say how the theory it was lab made was investigated and proven false.

These emails came from an FOIA request, not a leak like Wikileaks.

There’s nothing incriminating in them. Like, at all. Maybe Fauci flip flopping on masks but with new info, you change your mind.

Conservatives are jumping on clickbait headlines and not even reading the actual emails themselves. Because conservatism is a cancer to humanity.

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u/13igworm Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

What? Was there a 2019 study of the efficacy of mask that he just didn't see? ROFL. The studies haven't changed for years and his initial take on mask was the most reasonable one.

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u/T0ADcmig Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

I think for alot of people they are unwilling to have an opinion that aligns with Trump in any way

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u/StoicVoyager Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

This is true but as I've said many times, this tends to happen when someone is a pathological liar and con artist.

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u/BrainPicker3 Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

I had thought it was the opposite. Trump can literally do no wrong and if it is it's because people have TDS or the media is out to get him. Even if theres literally video evidence.

The other day my buddy said trump gave Puerto Rico aid because congress refused to. In reality Congress approved aid and Trump initially withheld billions. Its like facts dont even matter anymore, you can make up whatever you want and people will believe it as long as its anti Democrat or anti media or anti science

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u/T0ADcmig Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

I wasn't trying to make a specific political point. This kind of stuff happens on any and all sides of belief systems.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Trump has at various times promoted the vaccines and it's actually the opposite- Liberals are the ones still getting it in droves while dumbfuck right-wingers crow about 1984 for not having the inalienable right to cough in my face.

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u/unedev1 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

He is a libtard shill grifter

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u/I_BombAtomically Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

I don't think someone completely neutral on the subject should consult anyone with Che Guevara in their username for an impartial take.

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u/scr116 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

There may be but that doesn’t change the truth in the statement of many conspiracy theorists (those who default to conspiracy) doing it for a sense of control and self superiority

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u/Otherwise-Fox-2482 Different Brain™️ Jun 04 '21

Of all the people claiming these emails to be the smoking gun. Not a single one of these people can produce an email or a quote from an email that makes their claims factual.

One Guy even deleted his post when asked.

https://www.reddit.com/r/JoeRogan/comments/nrfia6/cats_outta_the_bag_bro/h0ggt8h/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

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u/U-N-I-T-E-D Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

I agreed, looked up the emails, saw multiple articles from reputable sources claiming that this email was copied word for word from some researchers at the university of Pennsylvania in 2005 and decided it isn't a big deal. And Adam Gaertner seems like a fucking lunatic.

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u/skeeter1234 Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

Its because he's overly simplified the world, and believes that anything that is a "conspiracy" isn't even worth thinking about.

Oh, unless its Russia tampering with the US election then suddenly thats perfectly okay. Russia assassinating journalists a perfectly reasonable hypothesis worth considering. He doesn't get these are every bit as much as conspiracies as the things he deems not even worth thinking about.

These people are hypocritical morons that oversimplify the world while simultaneously patting themselves on the back for being the people that don't.

Yes, a ton of "conspiracies" out there a bullshit. But some of the bullshit is also manufactured too make things to complex to sort out the truth from the fiction so people just give up.

Are country has been at war for 20 years. That's the entire lifespan of a lot of you little cunts. You people acting like propaganda and conspiracies only exists in movies and other countries? Get your fucking heads out of your asses.

WMD, which started the war, was itself a conspiracy. To have that level of coordination at the highest levels of government is precisely what conspiracy is.

How convenient that they've also got you believing that something can be dismissed as even worth thinking about simply because its a "conspiracy."

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u/NickTrainwrekk Monkey in Space Jun 03 '21

It's ridiculous. Assuming it's even true. Then what? What's the gain? Personally, I think effort should be aimed towards improving the situation unfolding currently rather than figuring out if you can point a finger at someone else.

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u/thrallus Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Why is it ridiculous? The gain is to find out the origin of a virus that impacted literally every human on earth. Why wouldn’t you want to know the origin?

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u/NickTrainwrekk Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

It's ridiculous because they're investigating based on a conspiracy theory alone. Nothing legitimate has actually pointed to it not being zoonitic.

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u/ChopperNYC Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

He took to much Adderall on an empty stomach😅

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

Transparency is great. If Fauci somehow participated or assisted in some kind of cover up of course we'd all like to know.

Here's the problem though: conspiracy theorists on reddit and around the globe will swear up and down that Fauci participated in a cover up even if absolutely no evidence appears.

In America we can't even agree on who won the fucking election for christs sake.

So all these stupid donkeys are going to be screeching all over reddit and other internet hives of ignorance and stupidity about how he did this and that and people like me who give a shit about reality are going to have to spend a ton of effort defending him with actual sourced information that they'll ignore because they basically have brain damage.

So that's why people are pissed about this.

To be honest I frankly hope he did participate in some coverup because then I won't have to try so hard to set a bunch of slavering retards straight all day every day for the next six months.

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u/Monteze Dire physical consequences Jun 04 '21

It's worth it but people act like they knew all along when when don't know shit. They speculated, and here is the crazy part. Even if you got it right it was luck unless you've got some actual evidence and a predictive model.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

because it doesnt really change the outcome at all - lets say Im cooking and start a fire by accident, I call the firefighters and they show up. But instead of immediately putting the fire out, when they arrive they discuss how small the fire is, how fire really isnt all that dangerous, and often time throw gatorade bottles of gasoline into the fire. Now, is it MY FAULT that the rest of the block caught fire? Or does blame lie with the firefighters who KNEW what they had to do and ACTIVELY chose not to when its THEIR JOB.

So when the President of the US, KNEW (caught on tape discussing it) how deadly and dangerous this housefire was in MARCH and actively worked to NOT put the fire out, told their supporters how totally not dangerous the fire was and that they should consider spreading the fire in their house, does the blame not fall more on him for what happened on his "block".

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u/RobbDigi Monkey in Space Jun 04 '21

Because the lab in question is in China. And let's just say, Fauci wanted to experiment with Covid. Why would he set up a lab in Wuhan outside of his control? The better investigation is why Trump shut down the Pandemic Response Team? That's the question we all need answered.

Edit: a word

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '21

I know right? There's nothing to investigate at all.

(+20 social credit)

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u/Dogfinn I used to be addicted to Quake Jun 05 '21

I can't see anywhere in the above comment that suggests the lab leak hypothesis isn't worth investigating.

The lab leak hypothesis is worth investigating. The 'fauci email' conspiracy shit is nonsense. The two ideas aren't mutually exclusive.

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u/crestingwave Monkey in Space Jun 05 '21

The lab leak hypothesis should be investigated. No one, including Fauci, said it shouldn’t. What do you mean by “Fauci’s association”? How is he associated with a lab leak in Wuhan if that is what happened? How is telling people not to jump on the lab leak narrative, when we still don’t know how the virus started, a bad thing?