Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Thursday, December 31, 2020

This is How Conspiracy Theories Gain Oxygen

China has been clamping down on research into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, trying to make sure that science serves the interests of the state and the CCP.

Clmping down on science and being opaque is how conspiracy theories can gain traction. China is hiding the truth. So while it's highly unlikely that the Chinese engineered COVID-19 (why would they kill offf thouands of their Han citizenry) and cripple the economy of a major city), the mere fact that the Chinese are hiding shit implies that they have something to hide.

And that is where the conspiracy theorists come in....

11 comments:

Ten Bears said...

I am not at all unconvinced it didn't originate in a bio-weapons lab in Ohio, and that all of this manufactured 'china virus' hysteria is more than just manufactured hysteria. It's a 'ew ew ew look at that ill-dressed woman' coverup.

Comrade Misfit said...

No, it originated in a bioweapons lab down the hall from Josh Hawley's office at the school of law and over-the-road trucking.

B said...

While I strongly doubt that the Chinese intended it to get out into the wild, I also have no doubt that it escaped from their bioLab in Wuhand. It probably WAS an accident.

We will likely never know the truth for sure. It's not like we can expect the Chinese to tell us anything but their version of the truth.

Jones, Jon Jones said...

The virus likely came from one of Vietnam, Laos or Myanmar. A WHO team is going to investigate. It's not a weapon if it can't be controlled.

Dark Avenger said...

why would they kill offf thouands of their Han citizenry)

Nostalgia.

dinthebeast said...

Scientists who investigated the genome said that there was almost no possible way it could have been engineered. But that isn't nearly as useful in the propagandization of folks like B, so there's not the same incentive to spread it around.
What China's motivation for suppressing information about it might be, I don't really know, but their penchant for suppressing information that might not make the Party look good is well known and widespread, so yeah, likely SOP for them but fuel for idiots with agendas.

-Doug in Sugar Pine

dan gerene said...

China probably suppresses the information for the same reason that Trump knowingly lied about the virus especially at the start of the pandemic, it makes them look incompetent and weak if they aren't completely in control.

Ten Bears said...

I suppose I should clarify: I was being a smart-ass, a reformed drunk. I am on record here and elsewhere as finding it as likely to have thawed out of the thawing tundra a viri that hasn't seen a human since before we were human as to have jumped from raw bat to undercooked dog to ill-fed human or to have escaped a bio-weapons facility in Cincinnati, St. Petersburg or Tel Aviv.

Blind boars 'n acorns: b is right, we'll never know the truth of it.

B said...

SO y'all are gonna believe the CHinese? THeir original story that it came from bats in a Wuhan "Wet Market"...bats that live 250 kn=m away from Wuhan.

Of course, the Disease Lab is only blocks from the "Wet Market"....But that's just a coincidence, right?

dinthebeast said...

Perhaps the NIH would be a better place to start:

https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2020/03/26/genomic-research-points-to-natural-origin-of-covid-19/

-Doug in Sugar Pine

Dark Avenger said...

B, the next thing you’ll be telling is that the virus was cooked up with the help of Hunter Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Dr. Fauci,