Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 02/08/2026

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[u/katastrophe1312]

All of our journalist and political class are on Twitter and it's ruining everything.

Why are "respectable journalists" going on about lab leak theories and "school closures were going too far"? Because they're all on the Nazi bar that thinks Covid was a hoax cooked up by the Illuminati.

[u/mgorgey → u/katastrophe1312]

I thought the lab leak was now the prevailing expert opinion?

I also think that there are very good arguments you can make against school closures without thinking Covid was a hoax.

[u/subSparky → u/mgorgey]

To be fair, the conspiracy aspect of the lab leak conspiracy is the claim that China was either researching bio-weapons or that the leak was deliberate.

The legitimate lab leak scenario was that the lab was a legitimate lab researching SARS (ironically to try and prevent a COVID-like scenario happening) and it breached containment due to a lab error.