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I'm old enough to recall the videos we got coming out of China back when Covid was just reving up. People spontaneously dropping in the streets, apartments being welded shut with tenants inside, the works.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Covid was bio-engineered in a lab, and when they realized it had gotten out, they didn't know which variant had escaped - and that there were much, much nastier variants than the one we got.
Hence China's initial reaction looking like something out of a zombie movie.
The thing is they kept up that reaction long, long after we knew what it was.
But yeah I'd like to see a documentary on the Chinese response. There's tons of great footage out there and some of it is the most dystopian stuff I've ever seen. Drones flying by apartment blocks telling people not to go out on their balconies and sing, and marking those who do.
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It's really the most charitable explanation for the Western response as well -- I've personally settled on the theory that most first-world government agencies are a bitchin combination of evil and incompetent -- but if high-level officials had back-channel (ie. not publicly sharable) information from China that this virus was a potential bioweapon, what they did actually makes sense and might even have been a good idea.
The blackpill theory is that the virus was a bioweapon, designed to make ~everyone a drooling retard -- Mission Accomplished! (source: my lyin' eyes)
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