I think the reason progressives don't buy a lab leak is because in their worldview a lab leak is simply not possible. Smart people run labs, smart people never do stupid things, a lab leak is stupid... ergo 1) it didn't happen, or 2) stupid people made it happen. The virus came from a part of China where there's a lab AND a "wet market?" It must have come from the wet market, and Chinese people who shopped there went to the lab after contracting it. Or it somehow got out of the lab because of an error made by an unaccountably stupid person and then got to the market. Either way, only the market is important to them. They do not care whether it turns out that the virus has nothing to do with the market at any time--in their minds, it's covered.
Likewise, smart people can stop a highly contagious virus (you know like we've been able to stop colds and flus, ha ha ha)., smart people tried to stop it, the disease wasn't stopped... ergo, stupid people are to blame.
You’ve understood my thesis exactly. Smart always equals progress. Therefore smart and progressive is never wrong, only thwarted, by dumb people. And we know what ought to be done with THOSE PEOPLE for the sake of “progress.”
Exactly. The genius of Margaret Sanger was that she saw that it was too horrible to kill everyone, and too difficult to sterilize everyone (although her ideal solution was to sterilize about 70% of people by force). All she had to do was get people to stop reproducing on their own... which they have, as a general rule, done.
Covid saw many liberals of the King ilk trot out the law of merited improbability: “It’s likely Covid won’t kill all of you dumb people who disagree with me, but if it does, you totally deserved it...”
I think the reason progressives don't buy a lab leak is because in their worldview a lab leak is simply not possible. Smart people run labs, smart people never do stupid things, a lab leak is stupid... ergo 1) it didn't happen, or 2) stupid people made it happen. The virus came from a part of China where there's a lab AND a "wet market?" It must have come from the wet market, and Chinese people who shopped there went to the lab after contracting it. Or it somehow got out of the lab because of an error made by an unaccountably stupid person and then got to the market. Either way, only the market is important to them. They do not care whether it turns out that the virus has nothing to do with the market at any time--in their minds, it's covered.
Likewise, smart people can stop a highly contagious virus (you know like we've been able to stop colds and flus, ha ha ha)., smart people tried to stop it, the disease wasn't stopped... ergo, stupid people are to blame.
You’ve understood my thesis exactly. Smart always equals progress. Therefore smart and progressive is never wrong, only thwarted, by dumb people. And we know what ought to be done with THOSE PEOPLE for the sake of “progress.”
Exactly. The genius of Margaret Sanger was that she saw that it was too horrible to kill everyone, and too difficult to sterilize everyone (although her ideal solution was to sterilize about 70% of people by force). All she had to do was get people to stop reproducing on their own... which they have, as a general rule, done.
Covid saw many liberals of the King ilk trot out the law of merited improbability: “It’s likely Covid won’t kill all of you dumb people who disagree with me, but if it does, you totally deserved it...”