China is protecting itself from liability, there is my conspiracy theory.

Regardless of the source, the actual transcript proves nothing. Pompeo backtracked. No proof or substantiated claim of a manufactured virus.

yeah here is a perfect example of ABC news reporting on a fierce fire fight in Syria 👌

https://youtu.be/EjukWo3KMfI

That article is to show support for the medical personnel in China who alerted the world to the Covid-19 outbreak, in defiance of the Chinese government. Those doctors were arrested after they refused to stay quiet. How is that pro Chinese government propaganda?

Hey Chief: We're still waiting for proof that the virus was manufactured in a lab. Or proof that anyone in the administration made that claim (without backtracking when called out.)

No, it absolutely is not.

And they issued a retraction and apology as the more reputable news sources do when they get things wrong. Didn't say they were perfect, just a categorically more reliable news source than actual propaganda/opinion blogs such as Breitbart.

You already have proof.
You choose to ignore it

That is PRECISELY my point about not ascribing malice when incompetence would serve. They had what SHOULD have been a P-4 (biosafety level 4) facility with KNOWN deficiencies in both equipment and policies.

if you are handling organisms as dangerous as MERS or SARS or Ebola, IT DOESN’T MATTER if the organism you ket get away from you has been genetically modified by human intervention, by random mutation, or if it’s just the native unmodified pathogen which - you ought to know - can be dangerous enough.

If you are handling any of that stuff, and screw up, disaster is possible. Which is why you don’t necessarily want to put your lab in the most populous area you can find. And why you shut it down until things can be corrected, not just soldier on.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/...uspension.html


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/h...biohazard.html

Well who is a perfect "reliable" news source??
Can you name one?