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Some of the comments here are eye opening on how effective the misinformation campaign has been on this issue. There is no real evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab leak. Rand Paul is being intentionally distracting to push a false narrative.

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Agreed. You do have to ask, why the misinformation campaign happened in the first place, and to what extent are we seeing the misinformation campaign still being deliberately continued (rather than the aftermath echoing) in this thread and other recent ones.

Some of the comments here are eye opening how effective the government propaganda has been on this issue. Rand Paul is not the person in here that is being "intentionally distracting". The science^1 has turned into a pathos that can literally do a 180 in a week because of "new evidence" and people will blindly accept it, even encourage this because "they are willing to change their opinion based on new evidence". Doomsday cults had better excuses for why their apocalypse failed than these "experts". [1]https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/05/scientific-regre...

>There is no real evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab leak. Rand Paul is being intentionally distracting to push a false narrative.

Despite that, I think lying before public should he held accountable. Particularly when the person in question is responsible for life and health for the people all over the world. (Yes, all over the world, because there are a lot of places who blindly follow US in these matters)

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