Thread by @caitoz

"I oppose cold war escalations, but if China's responsible for Covid we need to get the truth."

And who do you imagine will be "getting" this "truth"? In what possible scenario could such an inquiry lead to objective truth unmanipulated by the western cold warriors pushing this?

I'd really like specific answers to this question. How SPECIFICALLY do people imagine an inquiry into the lab leak theory taking place in a way that can lead to unmanipulated facts, or indeed anything other than more cold war escalations by US and its allied power structures?

I mean surely nobody is naive enough to believe that literal psychopaths like Cotton are interested in truth? Surely we all understand that the only people with real power who are pushing for a China investigation are trying to engineer aggressions, right?

https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1401689191549898753

That does not come anywhere remotely close to answering a single one of my questions. Come on guys. At least try to look like you're trying.

https://twitter.com/GlobalSatori/status/1402041296806723589?s=20

Again, dodging every single one of my questions, just like everyone else in this thread. Yet I'm the one burying their head in the sand?

https://twitter.com/tasmaniacal1/status/1402041322869952515?s=20

Who is "we"? Who SPECIFICALLY do you imagine is going to be obtaining this truth for you? Are you planning on going to the lab yourself? Explain to me how specifically you imagine this happening in a way that yields truth instead of lies and more cold war.

https://twitter.com/peacepumpkinpic/status/1402041326028328961?s=20

AGAIN: Who is "we"? Who is going to be leading this investigation? What institutions will be overseeing this, and in what possible scenario could they be guaranteed to be objective? It's clear that nobody's thinking very hard about this.

https://twitter.com/GlobalSatori/status/1402042600253689859?s=20

AGAIN: Who SPECIFICALLY will be responsible for obtaining and publishing that "understanding"? Under what possible scenario could anyone be assured that their findings would be unmanipulated by the power structures pushing for this inquiry?

https://twitter.com/ErikReisz/status/1402042725927690241?s=20

AGAIN: Who SPECIFICALLY will be responsible for overseeing that "understanding"? Who SPECIFICALLY will be responsible for making sure they "don't get a pass"? Why are every single one of you dodging 100% of my very simple questions?

https://twitter.com/tasmaniacal1/status/1402043785773666305?s=20

What "international experts"? Under what organizing body? Tell me SPECIFICALLY who this would be, and how we could trust that their findings wouldn't be manipulated by the US power alliance a la OPCW investigations etc.

https://twitter.com/Freshphoton/status/1402044212972077060?s=20

Yeah it's pretty clear that nobody's thinking very hard about this.

https://twitter.com/dragutaman/status/1402045534672670723?s=20

It's a generic summary of sentiments I've been hearing ever since the Covid lab leak hypothesis went mainstream.

https://twitter.com/TonyFigs3/status/1402045473414959104?s=20

No one. That's my whole point: there's no mechanism in place for conducting such an investigation that won't be subjected to the most high-octane narrative management imaginable, and I can't think of any way you could create one. Apparently no one can.

https://twitter.com/NetBoyRick2pt0/status/1402047303570104323?s=20

Then it's a safe bet we'd never hear about it, if the organizing body conducting this hypothetical inquiry is subject to the influence of the US power alliance. And I can't imagine any scenario where it wouldn't be.

https://twitter.com/SimonGunson/status/1402048761002528786?s=20

It's clear nobody has an answer to my questions. In summary, there is no international mechanism which could oversee such an investigation fairly. The US dominates all such international investigative bodies, which is why Bush and Cheney aren't rotting in a cell at The Hague.