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310. Viral: The Origin of Covid 19 | Matt Ridley

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Pathogen of COVID?

It isn't obvious to me at all that the lockdowns were justifiable ethically, as far as I'm concerned. Xi Jinping has completely abandoned any idea of free enterprise for ordinary Chinese people. He has gone to a completely state directed view of the economy,. and a police state of the most brutal kind. And so we have a pathogen of COVID to contend with, but we also have a pathogenic of totalitarianism to contend with. The latter poses a much bigger threat than the former, lest we keep mocking about with gain of function research.

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