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Brilliant piece of propaganda, or not?

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Best practice to post summaries as well as links, so we don't have to watch videos if we don't want.

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Without knowing the facts, I don't see how to evaluate the tldr video vs the brief denial.


I have read elsewhere that it was likely a natural sport of an existing virus, and hope the video is mistaken, because war is worse than an outbreak.


That said, some conspiracy theories are true, just as some scientists are qualified as forensic virologists and others are not.


We don't need yet another rhetorical conflict.  We need facts.


I'll say this as well.  Since creating a vaccine is supposed to take up to 18 months, it is imo not unreasonable for it to take a similar amount of time to ensure that sufficient analysis of this SARs variant can tell if it was engineered.


The quick publication of a video makes its claims suspicious imo.  I've used "Factually incorrect" in Category 1, because we don't know which of the assertions is correct and that's the core of the issue. The suspiciously quick appearance of the video makes me choose "weak argument" for Cat 2.

Hmm, people making politically motivated comments based on pulling things out of their behinds, versus the conclusions of people who actually understand the science. The type of person who latches onto the propaganda is more than likely the same type who invests themselves into every conspiracy theory going. It's a waste of time speaking to them, I've tried and it ends up with something like "the Nazis were too scared to attack Switzerland which proves that the global elite lizard people live there".

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