Covid Origins
There are two hypothesizes
1. Wuhan wet market / Natural -
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/health/wuhan-market-covid-19/index.html
2. Wuhan Lab / Man Made -
https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/new-report-supports-claim-covid-19-came-from-wuhan-lab/
Even today, still the two hypothesizes exist and both are plausible. They still do not have a definitive origin. The DNI explained this. I added the
DNI.gov declassified assessment of Covid origins to this post.
Has
this document been revised? Because most of the DNI elements seem to agree, with low confidence, in the natural origin story. There is a difference between "plausible" and "evidenced", and there is still no evidence supporting a lab leak hypothesis.
Yet one of these Origins were considered conspiracy theories and misinformation:
www.science.org
WHO media briefing from Wuhan on COVID-19 mission, 9 February 2021
www.who.int
The DNI paper I quoted listed and discredited some actual conspiracy theories that were being pushed.
One Brow -
Except, the virus is not manufactured and shows no signs of being manufactured.
Still true.
Than again, you think Mercola is credible.
I hope this was never true, and I should not have been so unkind. I apologize.
Both of you shot down the man mad hypothesis even though you both can not, even today prove where the origin was. No one can. Both of you were on the governments and media's side on this subject.
What I don't like is the government promoting their "truth"(Natural) and shutting down conversation what they feel is "misinformation" (Man Made) and working with social media to do this.
The man-made hypothesis still flies in the face of the assessment of the most of the world's virologists, and still has no evidence. To claim it should have equal hold on our beliefs is untrue.
Vaccine efficacy
I have posted on this topic before and included a video that shows the government, including the President, that claims you can not spreed Covid if you are vaccinated.
I agree these were over-simplifications. Being vaccinated means you are much less likely to get inflected, get sick, and transmit the virus. It's true that the vaccine prevents most cases of covid19, but no protection is absolute, and ideally it would not been promoted as absolute.
Even though you heard about the man made more frequently, what was the narrative? When you heard about it, was it "Covid origin made in lab is a conspiracy theory" or was it more "Covid origin made in lab is a plausible origin"?
Various people were taking the lab leak hypothesis, promoting it as fact, and claiming there was a conspiracy to cover it up, kill people, sell vaccines, etc. Many conspiracy theories had the (unevidenced) man-made hypothesis at their center. The hypothesis may have been discredited too quickly on that basis.
Im asking again, at the time, was it considered misinformation that if you got vaccinated you could still get covid. The answer was yes.
Anyone who relied on more than a soundbite from POTUS would have been aware the protection was not 100%.