Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "US Energy department and FBI agree on Lab leak" video.

  1. Three years ago we didn’t have enough evidence to justify the inference. We still don’t, you know. Hence the declaration “low confidence.” Most likely we never will. And whichever way it originated, sooner or later something similar will happen again, and we need to get ready. Saying as Dr Campbell does “we should stop working on this” is very unwise (IMHO). Either nature or some crazy apocalypse-minded bad-guy with too much money will create something worse. We need to learn what can happen, in order to be ready for what ever does happen.
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  2. It is a weapon. It was designed and unleashed in 2019 because at that time, the classical music world in Europe and USA and even South America had rediscovered Puccini’s last, unfinished opera Turandot. (If you have ever heard of an aria for tenor called ”Nessun dorma”, that’s from Turandot.) This opera is very offensive to Xi and the Chinese ruling party, because it depicts the Chinese people as brutal savages ruled by a sadistic tyrant. Opera houses all over the free world were planning, in 2019, to stage it in 2020. It's very challenging, for everyone - the soloists, the chorus, the orchestra, the costumers, the set-designers, everyone. La Scala, the Metropolitan, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Covent Garden, DeutscheOper Berlin, and even the little “petit-grand” opera companies like Regina Opera in Brooklyn and West Bay Opera in Palo Alto were going to take a crack at Turandot. The Chinese government released the virus in order to stop it. A telling detail: they seem to have succeeded. Now that the pandemic is (hopefully!) fading, the opera companies are doing plenty of Puccini, but not Turandot! They’re doing La Bohème, and Il Trittico, and a few of the earlier ones, but not Turandot. That's why they designed it to have such mild pathology, Dr Campbell. They weren't trying to kill a lot of people, just to make enough people sick enough to shut down the opera houses for a while so that the global classical music community could move on.
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  3.  @williamsnapp2605  Whether or not you should get vaccinated is an entirely separate question from how the virus originated.
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  4. Should we leave it to the Chinese, Russians, and Middle Easterners? We don’t control the whole world. We are not the only players.
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