Like most examples of the Right crowing over #TheLeft getting 'owned' - Conservatives giddiness over #JonStewart suggesting #COVID came out of Wuhan Labs is thanks to a bad faith conflation of racism, corruption and legitimate scientific enquiry
Movies like Outbreak, World War Z, even reboots of Planet of the Apes that start with an infection of some red shirt lab worker that starts a plague. Considering the first #COVID case WAS a Wuhan Lab worker it's not completely for many Americans to look at Wuhan skeptically
But most trusted research suggests that it COULD be from the lab, it could also come from a variety of zoological sources. No one knows for sure - Yet. And we may never know. nature.com/articles/d4158…
But there is a HUGE difference between #JonStewart believing a Wuhan leak is possible and the conspiracies being peddled by the Right and the former Trump administration - A difference that the far right ignores and the centrist left is afraid to acknowledge
Trump promoted #WuhanLabLeak theory as a way to stoke racism & blame China to distract from his own corrupt and incompetent #COVID19 pandemic response. There is a HUGE difference btw "China intentionally infected us" v.s. "This might be an accidental outbreak"
On a conspiracy scale from #QAnon pushing space lasers to Birtherism - Believing that a virus lab might have something to do w/ an outbreak may not be correct but it certainly isn't crazy, and #JonStewart is definitely not trafficking or co-signing the xenophobia of the right
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