{"id":186298,"date":"2021-05-31T20:24:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=186575"},"modified":"2021-05-31T20:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T20:24:22","slug":"what-matters-about-the-origins-of-the-covid-19-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/31\/what-matters-about-the-origins-of-the-covid-19-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"What Matters About The Origins Of The COVID-19 Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up until recently I dismissed the hypothesis that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab as a crackpot conspiracy theory meant to increase anti- China sentiment in the US. Then two friends gave me very well researched articles making the case that the Lab Theory, as I will call it, was credible and should not be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>There is as yet no proof for either the Lab Theory hypothesis, or for the From Nature hypothesis. Still, the issue will rage in the mainstream media. If we don\u2019t address it properly, we will look ignorant, and we will be dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the key points to make in discussing it:<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/what-matters-about-the-origins-of-the-covid-19-virus\/\">What Matters About The Origins Of The COVID-19 Virus<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/what-matters-about-the-origins-of-the-covid-19-virus\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up until recently I dismissed the hypothesis that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab as a crackpot conspiracy theory meant to increase anti- China sentiment in the US. Then two friends gave me very well researched articles &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27148,304,5722,32,202],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186298"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186299,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186298\/revisions\/186299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}