Friends of The Rant hosts Gordon Anderson, Billy Liggett and Jonathan Owens talk about current COVID-19 conspiracies, the columns they wrote for the most recent edition of The Rant Monthly and Billy’s childhood friend who smoked in the fourth grade.
Friends of The Rant hosts Gordon Anderson, Billy Liggett and Jonathan Owens talk about current COVID-19 conspiracies, the columns they wrote for the most recent edition of The Rant Monthly and Billy’s childhood friend who smoked in the fourth grade.
LOVE you guys. Get a Female on Staff too! (for perspectives).
Oh Come On Guys!
You point out how silly it is for people to ignore the thousands of healthcare professionals and listen instead to two “Plastic Surgeons” or “Doc in the Box Doctors” when it comes to how serious the PANDEMIC is, then turn around and do the same thing you’re making fun of people for.
You ignore the virologists, geneticists, and epidemiologists that have repeatedly stated they see NO EVIDENCE of this being a designed or manufactured virus. Instead, you start parroting the crap politicians have been feeding us about trying to blame this on some Chinese lab. They have a vested interest in finding a scapegoat for this whole thing. Listen to the vast majority of scientists and not the “2 nuts on youtube”.
And I have no idea which of you said it, but stating it couldn’t be natural because its only been 10 years for this virus to evolve and that is just too short…. Stay in your lane, you know nothing about microbiology and/or genetics and off the cuff statements like that are not only false, they are dangerous when being spread by reporters. 10 years is short in human years, but is time for millions of generations of viruses to live, spread, and mutate. Viruses evolve and mutate in a matter of months – one of the reasons you have to get a new flu shot every year.
Jim Elliot speaks the truth!
What Mr. Elliott says is true and there is the additional factor that viruses need not follow the slow, steady model of evolution, where each generation can only add a tiny bit of new genetic material. Two viruses that are very different from each other, infecting two different species, can exchange large amount of genetic information, creating a chimeric virus that has no precedent, and is thus more likely to infect large numbers of people, since no exposure they have had to previous viruses has given them even a small amount of immunity against this novel threat.
I do disagree with one point. I notice that when scientists debunk the Chinese lab theory, they are very careful to say that it is unlikely that the virus was “created” in a lab. Only the real hardcore conspiracy buffs believe that. What is far more likely is that it is a natural virus that ESCAPED from a lab. That has not been debunked, nor could it ever be. It COULD conceivably be proven, if one thinks it likely that the Chinese government would admit to such a mistake or not cover up any evidence of it, in which case I am touched by your faith in the CCP to do the right thing. So we will likely never know for certain.
Personally, I find it mathematically unlikely that out of all the wet markets in China, it just happened to be one near a virus lab that was hit first (if that is indeed the case). At any rate, there is a huge difference between “lab created” and “lab sourced”. If a gas station leaked gasoline into Sanford’s water supply, it would not be accurate to say they were not at fault because analysis of the gasoline shows that it was refined in Texas.