A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.
  • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
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    8 months ago

    This is bullshit. No credible sources outside the GOP caucus, and Rand Paul give any credence to this. Now, it is certainly the case that the #45 administration did a horrible job in response to the pandemic, certainly increasing morbidity and mortality, a problem that continues to this day. smh.

    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Jeffery Sachs is a primary source on this issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs#COVID-19

      In spring 2020, Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, appointed Sachs as chair of its COVID-19 Commission, whose goals were to provide recommendations for public health policy and improve the practice of medicine. Sachs set up a number of task forces, including one on the origins of the virus.

      The Lancet is referenced over a dozen times on Wikipedia’s main COVID-19 page.

  • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Reporter: [REDACTED]
    Reason: This isn’t news it’s just an opinion piece. Trash

    People seem to have no idea who Jefferey Sachs is. Corporate-backed journalism only, please.

    • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Same dude also jumped on the Robert F. Kennedy Jr podcast to push this idea and thinks Ukraine should cede its land to Russia. Source sounds like a mouthpiece for a certain agenda.

        • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Bet if I suggested the Palestinians just give up the West Bank for peace I’d get a different reaction from you.

          • Alsephina@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Is Palestine currently governed by a fascist coup gov like Ukraine’s has been since 2014?

            “Israel” is a western colony in Palestine. There’s no similarity between these two situations.

            • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
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              8 months ago

              People who call Israel and Russia similar out themselves as illiterate puppets for white fascism. I think it is a good brainlet filter.

          • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Israel doesn’t want to give Palestinians full and equal rights as Israeli citizens. Ukraine likewise doesn’t want to give the people of Donbass full and equal rights as Ukrainian citizens, as evidenced by them banning political parties that were popular there and shelling their cities well before Russia was involved.

            What has the Ukrainian government ever done to show that they’re interested in governing the Donbass in the interests of the people living there? What has Israel ever done to show that they’re interested in governing the West Bank in the interests of the people living there? There is no hypocrisy, you’re just not examining the issues beyond a surface level knee jerk reaction.

      • robinn_IV [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Um, wow, okay, Putler is genociding Ukrainians simply because he’s evil, and you don’t have the heart to donate a couple of dollars to Raytheon? Civilized people with blond hair and blue eyes are being killed, this isn’t like those righteous Western holy wars across the Middle East. Have some decency and fill out your ballot for Biden then enlist to fight alongside the Ukrainian armed forces as they wear Slavic runes and type beautiful inspiring poetry about Putin being Voldemort and Ukrainians being Han Solo… unless you want Russian imperialism to spread across all of Europe and then the world? Yeah, didn’t think so tankie.