Thread by @davenewworld_2

when the goalposts move from "we never funded that research in wuhan" to "okay we did fund it but not for that virus," it demonstrates how woefully incompetent our institutions are in keeping us safe

"The work, funded by a multi-year grant awarded in 2014 and done in collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), involved engineering coronaviruses to see how they affected mice."
newsweek.com/ecohealthallia…

not being transparent --> more mistrust in science --> more anti-vaxxers --> more deaths

I'm done replying to this. If you don't think a lack of communication or transparency contributed to the massive influx of pandemic conspiracies, you clearly didn't go down their rabbit holes. If we were informed right away it could be a lab leak, public trust would be higher.