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COVID Lab Leak Theory and Rage at Reopening Businesses
from #238 - Keep Your Mouth Shut | The Tim Dillon Show · #238
5 min
Tim discusses the growing credibility of the COVID lab-leak theory, then pivots to criticizing the intense anger directed at comedians and small businesses trying to reopen, suggesting the angriest critics are isolated, antisocial people who prefer the internet to real life.
- Tim accepts the lab-leak theory as increasingly credible, whether as bioweapon or manipulated research virus.
- The fury directed at Chappelle, Rogan, and anyone doing stand-up or opening restaurants baffles him.
- Twitter accounts raging at restaurants and comedy shows—does anyone believe that comes from concern for health, or just hatred of leaving the house?
- Many angry online activists barely exist in real life; they're gaunt, strange, anti-social people who found refuge on the internet.
- If you can't open when cases are falling, when could you possibly open—when no one is sick at all?
- Tim marvels that financial journalists get paid to write obvious takes, like Martin Wolf's declaration that containing China won't work.
ChinaJoe RoganDave ChappelleMartin Wolf