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Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory

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Jon Stewart appears on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and discusses the pandemic, vaccine science and the Wuhan lab origin theory. He jokes that the disease shares its name with the lab.

HN posts it in COVID origin threads as a blunt comedic take on why the lab leak question deserved investigation rather than dismissal.

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@khazhoux2022-01 · in “Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt”

Jon Stewart's take is brilliant: ▶ this video > "The name of the disease is printed on the lab's business cards!!" But the reason the Left in the US couldn't even consider Wuhan as the source, is because the Right (well, Trump himself) wanted to say that because it was " Chi na's fault", that his Administration bore no responsibility for dealing with it.

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@cypherg2023-03 · in “I Asked Leading Covid Scientists, Off the Record, About the Lab Leak Theory”

Seems rather insane to me to "not care" about the origins if we all intend on preventing this in the future. Each origin hypothesis has vastly different implications - incredibly vast. I'm shocked that this article didn't discuss the Biosaftey Level of the WIV or the many, many, MANY, other lab leaks from labs with even stricter BSL. The ever avuncular Jon Stuart said it well two years ago: ▶ this video

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@khazhoux2023-02 · in “Controversial experiments that could make bird flu more risky to resume (2019)”

Yes, somehow it is considered racist and sinophobic to ask if the coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, might possibly be related to the coronavirus research center in Wuhan. Jon Stewart says it best: ▶ this video

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@khazhoux2023-02 · in “Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Agency Now Says”

Time once again to post Jon Stewart: ▶ this video I still don't understand how in 2020 people were branded as racist sinophobes for saying that the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, probably originated from the coronavirus research lab in Wuhan . I know suspicion isn't fact, but that should have always been the leading theory to be disproved. Instead, IIRC Twitter and FB were flagging any post that said "lab leak."

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@davidanekstein2024-11 · in “Did scientists revive an extinct animal or just breed a less stripey zebra?”

When Jon Stewart was on the Late Show talking about the possibility of a covid lab leak [1], he gave a quip along the lines of “science says ‘why did curiosity kill the cat? let’s kill 10,000 cats and find out.’” and that if science can do it, it will do it, and it’s uncommon for people to ask “should we be doing this?” before it’s too late. I think that ego and scientific urge to understand are sometimes hard to distinguish because they sometimes lead to similar outcomes. [1] ▶ this video