6/15/21

Why are we pretending to believe China?

6/15/21

 Stories like this, about the China Bat Lady and her defense of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, imply we are very much open to believe China's story, or at least take their arguments in good faith. Can we just stop acting like idiots? Can we at least stop pretending to be idiots?

“How on earth can I offer up evidence for something where there is no evidence?” she said, her voice rising in anger during the brief, unscheduled conversation. “I don’t know how the world has come to this, constantly pouring filth on an innocent scientist,” she wrote in a text message.


 In a rare interview over email, she denounced the suspicions as baseless, including the allegations that several of her colleagues may have been ill before the outbreak emerged.


The speculation boils down to one central question: Did Shi’s lab hold any source of the new coronavirus before the pandemic erupted? Shi’s answer is an emphatic no.


But China’s refusal to allow an independent investigation into her lab, or to share data on its research, make it difficult to validate Shi’s claims and has only fueled nagging suspicions about how the pandemic could have taken hold in the same city that hosts an institute known for its work on bat coronaviruses.

Emphasis mine.There are two key questions, one of which is: did the virus originate from the Wuhan lab? The other and perhaps just as important, why is China stonewalling any and all investigation into that question? 

It's like believing North Korea is dismantling their nuclear program on their say-so, while they deny international observers access.

I honestly find it hard to understand why we are still trading with China, despite well-documented wide-spread human rights violations, and I'm not talking about political stuff, but real and horrible ethnic-cleansing-shit for which any other country would be globally excoriated and harshly sanctioned. I know, it's the money. And it's depressing.

Sometimes the blocking of truth-seeking endeavors is complicated and genuinely has to do with factors having nothing to do with hiding guilt. But other times, especially when it's the fucking theme song of their entire modern history, it pretty much means they're hiding guilt. Sanctions are in order.


Also, free Hong Kong, Taiwan is a country, China is asshole.

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