[ExI] covid origin

[William Flynn Wallace]

I am not channeling anyone, much less Clinton.  My point was simply that we
are not going to know what happened.  China, for whatever reason, is not
going to let the truth out, assuming that it knows.  We can punish them
just in case they were doing bad things.  What is that going to
accomplish?  We have to work with whoever is in charge there even if they
are combinations of Stalin, Idi Amin and Mao.  We are trying to punish them
for the Uighur situation, and that's not going to accomplish anything
either.  We can make big noises and let the world know we don't like some
things other countries do.  But are the noises having a beneficial effect
on the perpetrators?  I suspect that there is no data on that.  The noises
may make the politicians look good.  Changing other countries, even with
boots on the ground war, has not happened.  And is China going to change
because we are not 'officially' entering the Olympic Games?  Hah, and
furthermore, Hah.  bill w

On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 2:03 PM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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>
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 11:54 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> At this point, why do we care?  Labs all over, including ours, no doubt,
>> are making all kinds of things, likely much worse,  and accidents will
>> happen.  Lab people are human.  Does anyone think that China knowingly
>> released this virus?  Then it's an issue.  If not, then not.
>>
>
> ### You are channeling Ms Clinton commenting on the deaths of the American
> soldiers she sacrificed in Benghazi," ‘What difference, at this point,
> does it make?'
>
> Wrongdoing matters in ways that differ from mere happenstance. Failure to
> punish emboldens wrongdoers, both the original ones, and the onlookers.
>
> The aptly named PLA (People's Liberation Army, the organization in charge
> of keeping the Chinese people unfree) openly runs a research program to
> develop ethnically targeted bioweapons. I watched a video by the intrepid
> laowhy86 where he shows screenshots from official PLA publications which
> describe the plan to collect genomic information about the Han and about
> all other ethnicities, and then develop bioweapons that spare the Han and
> slaughter the rest of us. This is not a conspiracy theory. It's not an
> accident that the Chicoms banned the export of genomic information about
> the Han while avidly collecting the genomes of everybody else.
>
> Recently I heard one titillating tidbit of information - the Chinese
> government just banned the sale of used lab animals to the public.
> Apparently some enterprising lab administrators were selling used dogs and
> other animals (maybe even bats?) for human consumption, as a little
> sideline business to supplement their incomes. What a country!
>
> Rafal
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