The COVID Clinic

[Sam (Sam Foerster)]

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@Faizal_Ali

To be clear, I also do not believe there is anything inherently racist

at least on the surface in conflict with,

@Faizal_Ali

@Sam

“Can someone explain to me why it’s racist to wonder if a virus escaped from a Chinese lab, but it’s not racist to insist that it infected humans because of Chinese wet markets? If anything, isn’t the latter more racist?”

Gladly.

The scientific evidence in favour of a zoonotic origin of COVID is, by now, pretty much conclusive. Racism does not generally predispose one to accept scientific facts.

It is, OTOH, entirely reasonable to speculate on the reasons so many people continue to trumpet this Lab Leak conspiracy theory, and suggest racism as among these.

Any time, Glenn!