Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (right) fanned the flames of a conspiracy theory on Wednesday when he said the coronavirus “escaped” from a lab in China, which led to the pandemic, repeating a popular theory that continually rejected the clinical community.
Reeves blamed the Chinese government for spreading the virus and said it “from the lab in China.”
The Covid-19 pandemic was born in Wuhan, China, one day in 2019, and scientists probably made the first impression on the human population after being transferred from a bat.
Wuhan also houses the Chinese government-backed Wuhan Virology Institute, which had performed the coronavirus long before the existing pandemic began.
The concept that the virus created in the laboratory is dismissed by experts as a conspiracy theory, and scientists claimed in the spring that “there is not exactly” evidence that Covid-19 originated in a laboratory.
But that didn’t stop many other people from clinging to the theory, especially conservatives, after President Donald Trump warned in April that the virus would possibly be in a lab, contradicting the conclusion reached through america’s intelligence community.
“The truth is that if this virus hadn’t escaped, no matter how it happened from the lab in China, I don’t know if we’d have the conversations we have all day, every day.It’s just a fact.” Reeves.Il then doubled his comments in a tweet on Wednesday afternoon.
“If you look at the evolution of the virus in bats and what exists now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very strongly skewed towards what may have been artificially or intentionally manipulated,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci in an interview with National. Geographic. .
Like much of the US solar belt, the US solar belt has been able to do so.Mississippi was severely affected during the record coronavirus outbreak in the United States this summer.The state is the third largest in relation to the case of the per capita pandemic, according to knowledge compiled through the New York Times, and the eighth largest according to the case of captain added in the more than seven days.
Reeves sided with science in early August when he issued a state-wide mask warrant.Most states with Republican governors do not have state mandates, while each and every state with a Democratic governor has a mandate in place.
Reeves made his claims about the lab after responding about his use of the term “Chinese virus” in a Facebook post.Many find the term racist, but Trump uses it all the time.
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I’m a Forbes reporter in New Orleans, covering the southern United States and the latest news.Previously, I wrote for The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Advocate covering
I’m a Forbes reporter in New Orleans, covering the southern United States and the latest news. Previously, I wrote for The Times-Picayune The New Orleans Advocate covering local government.