The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory(nytimes.com)
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The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/china-virologist-li-meng-yan-coronavirus.html
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Yes, the weapon theory doesn't make sense. But it meets many people's emotional needs. So without a simple and emotionally satisfying alternative - or a serious cost to being wrong - it will be widely believed.
Between Chinese officials burying the evidence, and all the political and emotional drama, I doubt we'll ever really settle where the virus came from and how it was released. The pandemic went poorly enough for China that the CCP should be far more interested in preventing repeats than in developing or releasing bioweapons. Similar for other nations' ruling classes.
> Not only that, we all just moved on as if nothing happened, despite this event having killed so many ...
True, but the 1918 "Spanish" Flu pandemic played out similarly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu Since ancient times, humans have lived in flood plains, near active volcanoes, on hurricane-prone shorelines, and otherwise at risk of large-scale mortality events.
Between Chinese officials burying the evidence, and all the political and emotional drama, I doubt we'll ever really settle where the virus came from and how it was released. The pandemic went poorly enough for China that the CCP should be far more interested in preventing repeats than in developing or releasing bioweapons. Similar for other nations' ruling classes.
> Not only that, we all just moved on as if nothing happened, despite this event having killed so many ...
True, but the 1918 "Spanish" Flu pandemic played out similarly - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu Since ancient times, humans have lived in flood plains, near active volcanoes, on hurricane-prone shorelines, and otherwise at risk of large-scale mortality events.
The Wet Market theory seems to have some racist implications about Chinese people eating bats sold at wet markets. It completely ends one line of discussion by pushing another angle.
Thought controlled. A phenomenon modern minds refuse to acknowledge.
But it's still amazing that we haven't settled where it came from, and instead everyone decided to approach this factual matter as a political one, stupidmaxxing.
Not only that, we all just moved on as if nothing happened, despite this event having killed so many people, and destroying countless other people's lives. Not by natural event, but (under either theory, since it really wasn't that deadly) due to the actions or reactions of people.
Kind of makes one understand where the emotional urge for "judgment" stories like the Egypt locusts in bible etc, where whole societies just get wrecked, motivated by various forms of wanting righteous retribution against society at large come from. The average person's attitude and behavior is just so profoundly contemptible.