[ExI] Reality is a Communist Plot

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM Gregory Jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> The way the two theories were presented fails to express what sounded to me like a plausible scenario when I first thought of it: that the institute created the virus (in order to study vaccines (funded by US bureaucracy)) with a process which produces a lot of dead bats.  A worker tasked with collecting the bats and loading them into the incinerator scooped them into a pillowcase and sold them at the wet market, which preferred live bats, but would take the dead ones, from which they made bat wing soup.
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> We don't even need to reach for the notion that the bat devourers caught the virus from the soup.  The chef or the low-level institute employee could have caught the virus from handling the dead bats.

Huh.  I had not heard that theory before - though it would fall under
"lab leak".  (Specifically, the employee of the lab leaked the virus.)

> What really bothered me is the notion that masks and vaccines could be mandated.  Neither worked

What data I have seen suggests that both of them worked, where they
were implemented.  (Not just "mandated but worked around" or
"refused", but "the physical objects, when actually used as designed,
reduced fatalities and casualties attributed to the virus in most
cases where data was reliably measured and published, as compared to
cases where the physical objects were not used and virus-attributed
fatality and casualty data was reliably measured and published".)