Jon Stewart On Vaccine Science And The Wuhan Lab Theory

Why HN readers recommended it

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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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Topic

covid lab leak debate

Format

commentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

2

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2021–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Jon Stewart's take is brilliant: [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 …

• 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: [VIDEO]

• Time once again to post Jon Stewart: [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, …