For the conspiracy idiots who think China designed this in a lab to take down the US

[Quixote1818]

A. The US is China's best customer so screwing up our economy is counter productive for China. This is how much we buy from China every in a year: $418 Billion!

B. Why let it lose in your own country first and destroy your own economy giving the US a chance to prepare (even though we didn't)? Why not just send someone into a number of big US cities and randomly spread it around so it takes off like a rocket ship?

C. Why is everything about the USA??? It's now in just about every country on the planet.

Feel free to add more.

[RockRaven]

1. If they WERE gonna release a deadly airborne virus for nefarious purposes,

doesn't "shutting down those mass street protests in Hong Kong" rank higher on their list of priorities than weakening the US? So much of what the CCP gets up to is about domestic politics, not international -- it's kind of arrogant we always assume it is about us.

[note: I'm saying this in the spirit of some conspiracy theory being true]

[GusBob]

2. Was or was not this disease the outcome of a Chinese wet market?

What's next

[Quixote1818]

3. Yes, those illegal wet markets need to be shut down by threat from the military

and China made some mistakes but the virus was NOT manufactured by China to wreak havoc on the planet. Viruses come from all kinds of places like farm animals in Mexico, primates in Africa, wet markets in China, cows in the UK etc.

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Also Gates had a patent on the virus and the globalists are out to get us with it.

[Quixote1818]

6. Yes, that one is just about as common. Saw this one today

This is the fact check but they were adamant that I looked up Event 201

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/03/26/fact-check-bill-gates-backed-pandemic-exercise-didnt-predict-covid-19/5081854002/

[brewens]

5. Diabolical Chinese scientists develope a bug that is "just the flu", "will just flow on through, or

worst case, "one day just goes away like a miracle". That's not exactly what I would shoot for if I was in charge of bio warfare.

[Windy City Charlie]

7. There's a new one each day

Seems like a new conspiracy a day from the deniers. I've heard it was man-made in China; that it was caused by 5G; that Bill Gates and George Soros are behind it; that everyone is embellishing the number of cases and deaths. Deniers have nowhere else to go now that the idea of this being a hoax didn't pan out for them.

[SCantiGOP]

8. Hate to say it but

We have an occasional post here on DU that sounds about as rational as a QAnon analysis.

[Celerity]

9. as long as they do not run a train

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213229755

[marlakay]

10. If it was made by them it was leaked out in

Error like Russia did with Anthrax.

[Starfury]

11. Plus, China owns over 1 TRILLION dollars of US debt. So of course they want to tank our economy...nt

[thesquanderer]

12. If you hear this from anyone semi-rational, here's scientific refutation to it being manufactured...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317175442.htm