Originally Posted by
A Quiet Monkfish
The West, Africa, even the USA, are all 'tied in' to China economically. Whilst China & Russia both have similar ideologies, the Chinese are clever, shrewd, patient, everything the Russians aren't. If Covid had been first identified in a remote area of Russia where the local scientists were experimenting with animal viruses and had laboratories specifically for this purpose in the same place, and had a history of awful bio-security, and had doctors from those labs escaping to other countries and saying how the virus escaped from the lab there, I think every government would be coming to the same conclusion. Instead it's swept under the carpet, not pursued, conveniently dropped.