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No “Lab Leak,” No “Climate Crisis” Matters, But This Does…
It doesn’t matter from whence we came as much as it matters where we go and what we do now.
Roaring Rivers
Torrents, currents, and ripples by Christyl Rivers
Cut the lab leak theory with Occam’s razor
Fight, scramble, or scream as much as you want, polarized, partisan people.
It won’t change many hearts or minds. It will waste time and energy.
It doe not change some very fundamental facts.
Whether it came from a wet market (it did) or a secret lab leak, COVID-19 is with us for good. It came from human people mucking about with animal hosts. Period.
Does it matter so much whether we people were in lab coats or market aprons when the invisible germs oozed out?
SARS CoV-2 came from invading habitats we have no business invading. In the shop. In the lab. In the factory farm.
The virus reproduced because people unleashed the barbed buggers.
The pandemic raged, sickened, and killed. It stabbed its teeny spikes into a world economy and upended about eight billion people because people invited it in.