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How the Media Failed Its COVID Test: The Truth Behind the Lab Leak and Masking Debates
Plain English with Derek Thompson
The Chinese Pandemic
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is not the only place in the city where potentially dangerous research might have been carried out. Do you consider the reluctance of the Chinese government to play ball a useful piece of evidence for either side of this debate? I don't. There's a bunch of different plausible origins for this virus in the same city and that just makes it difficult, especially in the absence of anything approaching a agreeable and open Chinese government to arrive at a final truth.
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