Originally Posted by
gimmick
This wasn't shut down in 2020, due to concerns of "racism".
None of the above was concluded false by "experts" in 2020 or deemed unworthy of discussion.
Are my posts an answer showing you that it maybe incorrect? Is this too ambiguous, "i don't have a huge preference for either theory"?
Why am i including this bit, "the inverse hypothesis about the exclusively natural origin of the virus does not yet have strong evidence either", that i think is 100% true in the sphere of public knowledge?
Was i some how not clear when i said Plandemictards were the biggest reason for several conspiracy claims?
Ps. The false bit is mostly about, is it likely that RaTG13 was used as backbone in engineering cov2. The person that wrote the paper about likely Lab Leak doesn't even believe that. It's an unlikely backbone. It's very hard to get from RaTG13 to cov2 by using humanized mice for reproduction.
Discussion of the lab leak theory was shut down in 2020. You can continue being naive or willfully ignorant as to the reason.
In the other thread, I linked an article (which I found after a minute of googling), from May 2021, regarding Facebook and Twitter having shut down ALL lab leak discussion for a long time.
Pretty amazing that you are excusing this because "Plandemictards" took it a step further and made conspiracy claims surrounding it. So what's the conclusion here? That we should have a complete shutdown on legitimate discussion of a virus' origins, because a small group of conspiracy theorists are pushing a false narrative around it?
You're really stretching here.
For all of 2020, it was considered anywhere between "racist" and "conspiratorial" to even bring up the Lab Leak Theory. Discussion was actually banned on Facebook and Twitter. The Twitter sidebar actually showed that "experts" had determined that COVID-19 did not escape from a lab.
If you want to be naive and think that had nothing to do with the election that year, go right ahead. You might as well also state you believe that Facebook and Twitter banned discussion of Hunter Biden's laptop because of their "hacked materials" policy, and not for any political reason.
There are basically two separate and distinct discussions surrounding the Lab Leak Theory:
1) Is the theory correct or incorrect?
2) Why was the discussion of this censored in 2020, and why was it portrayed as highly unlikely to be true back then, given that there were substantial reasons to consider it?
Lefties love to jump to discussion of #1 in order to avoid #2. Both are equally important.