He gots credentials and I don’t. Yet I was right and he was wrong.

calling it early. L pic.twitter.com/u04lEK4UTb https://t.co/eeKTuh1Uee

— jacob (@jacobdotgov) May 25, 2021

That should never happen, yet it does quite often.

It’s funny seeing epidemiologists and virologists who run labs herd onto Twitter to say that there is just absolutely 100% no way that SARS-CoV-2 and the resultant pandemic was a lab leak.

This of course has nothing to do with whether Covid was a lab fuck-up or not. All these claims are just the result of the fact that they they don’t want to be defunded or have tighter restrictions placed on their research.

When you understand that, it’s easy to see why they claim scientific certainty when in reality there is no actual evidence either way.

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?

Also, isn’t the relevant question: *what happened*? Or no? pic.twitter.com/vSqqJnehf7

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) May 26, 2021

The truth doesn’t matter.

If it makes a liberal cry, it’s racist. If a MAGA person believes it, it’s racist. If Trump said it, it’s racist. If it happened more than 20 years go, it’s racist. Etc. It just doesn’t matter to most people what actually happened or what the truth is — they just want to be on the “right” team. This is just as true, by the way, of conservatives and Republicans as it is of liberals. Probably even more so.

But because I am a liberal, it bothers me more when people I tend to want to associate with engage in this jackassery.

I can’t believe it’s necessary to say this, but if the leak of a pathogen from a research lab killed >10 million people and cost over $10,000 billion, it’s important to know that so we can take steps to make sure it never happens again.

— Robert Wiblin (@robertwiblin) May 27, 2021

The reason this assertion makes the liberal side angry because they spent nearly a year portraying anyone who said, “Maybe we should look at a lab leak” as completely and insufferably insane. This hasn’t been totally forgotten, unlike the “not shaking hands is racism” at the very start of the pandemic. And since it has not been just cast into the outer darkness of ideas it’s a very sore point since it’s looking more and more likely that SARS-Cov-2 was in fact a lab accident.

Also, these very same people were portraying labs leaks as something that basically never happen when anyone even remotely close to the bio research field knows they occur quite frequently.

Thus, this cowardly eschewal of looking at the issue plainly emerges from a combination of people who don’t want to be seen to be hideously and hilariously wrong, even though that’s exactly what they are, and not wanting to experience the geopolitical implications if COV2 was in fact a lab leak (which it probably was).