The White House has redirected COVID.gov to a new landing page called “Lab Leak: True Origins of COVID-19,” which makes a five-point argument for the theory that COVID-19 originated from a mistaken lab leak in Wuhan, China.

The new site appears to use theories from the final report of the Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, released in December 2024. There has never been a consensus or a “smoking gun” to explain what started the pandemic.

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    25 days ago

    Imagine fucking up an epidemic so badly that 5 years later you’re still coming up with schemes to make it seem less disastrous

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    25 days ago

    Remember when over 1 million Americans died of COVID under Captain Horse Pastes’ watch?

    He’s going to try to break that record this time around.

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        24 days ago

        They might have meant excess deaths due to diaper donvict’s constant bungling and conspiracy theory-mongering and his total bitchiness about people smarter than him, like Fauci.

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    24 days ago

    “Only the best people”

    For FUCKS sake. These people are just every single worst person you ever had the displeasure of dealing with, summed up in one maladministration. The dumbest and most crass, mean, and hateful people, just out to troll all normal Americans.