Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Pemalite]

Nighthawk117 said:

Pemalite said:

Yes the Chinese need to be ridiculed for what they have done.

But the rest is all conspiracy theory stuff... Which I cannot possibly adhere to unless you have the citations to backup such claims.

Ok, how's this for starters...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-department-cables-warned-safety-issues-wuhan-lab-studying-bat-coronaviruses/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-china-compete-us-sources

Allow me to tear this a part.

Firstly... It is Fox News. They are about as legitimate as CNN, it's mainstream media, they conflate, they get shit wrong, they make up conspiracy theories.

I mean... That "news source" doesn't have empirical evidence or citations to backup it's bullshit... And even goes so far as to cite' "The Washington Post" who have even previously gone on record to state that Fox News misinforms millions of Americans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/fox-news-has-succeeded-misinforming-millions-americans/

Not to mention Fox News has it's journalistic ethics coming into question anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News#Journalistic_ethical_standards

The Washington Post has also been found to have engaged in false misleading "news reports" as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post#%22Jimmy's_World%22_fabrication

These are your sources... Which are questionable at best.

Not to mention they don't really backup your arguments anyway... The Washington Post source doesn't assert that the virus was engineered by the Chinese.
And in-fact goes on to quote "The evidence it leaked from the lab is circumstantial."

Either way, they aren't asserting anything as fact... And we can move on from this.
Doesn't mean we don't lay blame at China's feet, far from it.