* If only China had provided the world with accurate data about covid-19 the US wouldn't be in this mess.
* Covid-19 was developed by the Wuhan research lab.
* China developed covid-19 as a weapon against the US.
* China is responsible for the tens of thousands of deaths in the US.
“Developed by” and “released from” are two different things. It’s a fact that the lab was studying bat coronaviruses. It isn’t a huge stretch that improper procedures could have led to one of those viruses getting loose. That’s a subtle, but important nuance. If an outbreak of polio happened a few miles from the CDC in Atlanta, wouldn’t it be fair to suspect that the virus could have escaped from the CDC? It’s also a strange coincidence as to how many deadly pathogens have come from China in the last 20 years. When was the last time some significant, world altering virus originated in Belgium? China has several. And all relatively similar.
It might just be a coincidence, but in my years as an NBC officer in the US Army, I learned that coincidences, especially in these matters, is pretty rare.
Was it intentional? There is no evidence to suggest it was. Was it negligent? Possibly. Is China benefiting strategically? Definitely. Draw your own conclusions, but I would trust even Trump more than I would trust anything coming out of China — and that’s saying a lot. China is not much different philosophically than North Korea. China still teaches in their schools that the Korean War was started by a US invasion. I lived in China for many years; amazing people, extremely hostile government. Imagine living in a place where your phones are tapped and your internet activity is fed to the local office of the Ministry of State Security where you can be subject to questioning over anything even slightly “disruptive.” I was questioned once because I had accessed a video (over VPN!) of the Tiananmen Square event. The principle of the school I was at called me to his office to ask me “to not do that again please.”
There is nothing in China’s character that would suggest they should be trusted over anything. They lie about air quality readings for f-ks sake.