So, I’m not trying to be snarky at all, just genuinely curious, as I’ve seen several people on Lemmy brag about how much they hate memes… Like, why? Do you not enjoy humor, or just not find them funny or something? It’s a bit like someone saying they hate dogs to me. I honestly don’t get it.

Only works if you’re rich, sorry.

But can we talk about climate change? Because we sure do. We talk about complicated economics topics, social issues, human biology… I just don’t see why the line is drawn at where Covid might have originated.

Of course. Again, I just don’t understand the weird polarizing effect even bringing it up causes. By your own reasoning there would be almost nothing most of us average people should even talk about. I find that highly questionable as a blanket statement. We can certainly talk about what we think the experts should be considering without making our own conclusions about it.

Edit: Just to clarify, you mentioned bioweapons. I haven’t heard anything to support that. I just wanted to be clear. I’m not promoting any extreme theories or indeed any theory.

Could anything be more symbolic of America’s political situation right now?

Yeah, I just think the resistance to even discussing it is very strange. Not suggesting conspiracy, just good old fashioned human irrationally.

You don’t think that a lab leak might suggest a need for more robust standards at such labs? It’s flawed to suggest that there aren’t differing future mitigation implications depending on how Covid started.

As far as racists clinging to certain theories, that doesn’t preclude rational people from talking about them as well. It’s the same kind of reasoning that produces arguments like, “Well, we can’t criticize Israel, because… Nazis!”

And, frankly, I have always found the idea that Covid started in a wet market much more racially charged than the idea of a lab leak.

The reasoning doesn’t make sense to me on multiple levels.

I’ve never understood the resistance to discussing the origins of Covid. It’s pretty important for understanding possible future risks. As far as being racist, I don’t get that either. We have to be able to criticize other nations regardless of who they are. I have a lot of respect for what China has done over the last few decades, it doesn’t mean they might not have screwed up and leaked a deadly disease out of a lab.

The reality is that we’ll probably never know for sure what happened because China blocked anyone else from investigating until long after the fact.

I thought it was only seven "na"s.

I wouldn’t say I look forward to it, it just helps me keep things in perspective. Wasn’t meaning to bring anybody down… Everyone take care of yourselves out there.

Let’s hope not, or if so let’s hope it’s very hard to prove… If Biden has all that planned, it would suggest executive interference and politically motivated prosecution. Don’t get me wrong, Trump needs to crash and burn, just saying…

Just remember this is all temporary, the universe is enormous and nothing we stupid humans do matters. One day we’ll be gone and it will be like we never existed.

Not like they’ve been part of the ecosystem for billions hundreds of millions of years or anything.

Great, don’t vote. I’m guessing with that rationale you’re a Trump supporter anyway.

I almost feel like a broken record pointing out that we really do need more than two political parties in the US, and that until then we gotta go with the lesser of two evils. For me, that’s Biden.

This is exactly how it works. Put your lies on the front page, then apologize in a tiny sentence buried somewhere no one sees. They know their audience has already heard what it wanted to hear, the apology won’t change a thing.

Well this is borderline unintelligible, I’ll see myself out I guess. Carry on, people.

Wow that’s very organized of you all.

As an American I can unequivocally state that differing time zones are one thing we do get. It’s a very wide place.

Don’t forget to have your pet spayed or neutered folks!