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Comment by GuinansEyebrows

2 days ago

> There's also nothing inherently wrong with selling intelligence tools to a western government

i emphatically beg to differ with this statement

Spies have saved so many lives throughout history and they prevented nuclear Armageddon during the Cold War on many occasions. Therefore the more spies the better.

Better spies than more covid research at wuhan.

  • > they prevented nuclear Armageddon during the Cold War on many occasions

    Spying created the conditions where we were on the brink of nuclear armageddon. That they also saved us from going over the brink isn’t really to their credit.

    Also, fyi - as best as we can ever know there was no lab leak. If you want a good summary of why not - have a listen to the most recent “If Books Could Kill” podcast episode.

    • 5 minutes in, “Look how far away the breakout was from the lab!”

      Really?

      6 minutes in “look at the viruses they were working on…”

      Can’t, it’s been scrubbed, thankfully some people saved some of the data before it was deleted.

      7 minutes in: “never been a confirmed case of a lab worker getting covid”

      The documented black market of animals out of biolabs in China and the fact that it’s an aerosol virus might be important here…

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