Saturday, April 18, 2020

Facebook "Fact Checker" works with Chinese Communist lab where the #China virus may have started

The fact that a deadly corona virus outbreak started within a few miles of a Chinese bio research facility which apparently doesn't take biosecurity seriously is reason for investigation.

But FaceBook censored a New York Post opinion article that raised the issue, an issue since raised by US intelligence.

The article did not say that that was the case. It was an opinion piece which said that that might be the case.  Hardly crazy talk.

What makes this more amazing is that one of the "fact checker" that FB used admired to being highly biased.

That's Danielle E. Anderson who is an assistant professor at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.  It turns out that she regularly works with the Chinese lab in question and has even worked in the lab herself.

Clearly it's not in her own best interests for that lab's security features to be questioned.  Yet FB trusted her on this issue.

Back in January 2018 State Department cables were released that the US government has had long standing concerns about the biohazard safety at the Wuhan lab.

Even the biased source, Anderson, admitted that the SARS virus escaped from a Beijing lab not once but four times.  Historically communist/socialist regimes have been less careful about all sorts of health and environmental contamination because the people aren't the priority.  Look at Chernobyl or the two previous viral outbreaks from China--Bird Flu and SARS.

Hence raising the potential that the research lab might be the source, due to an accident not due to a deliberate release, shouldn't be controversial.

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