China announces it’s ‘shocked’ the WHO plans to study the COVID-19 lab-leak theory

Did people expect them to say anything different?

Of course they did. https://t.co/NK7nKFk7wK

— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) July 22, 2021

Oh, well then. Never mind! It’s just a “rumor counter to common sense”:

Oh, well if China says so…. https://t.co/G4TL7s2BWq

— Susie Moore (@SmoosieQ) July 22, 2021

This is exactly what China is doing:

BREAKING: Toddler says he's shocked by mom's accusation he ate the cookie, dismisses the chocolate smeared on his face as a rumor counter to common sense. https://t.co/txt3HIPLzN

— Anna James Zeigler (@ajzeigler) July 22, 2021

And *this* is just what an authoritarian government would say if they were trying to hide the truth:

"Rumor counter to common sense" sounds like the type of thing an authoritarian government tells its own citizens to cover-up something. That wording is so strange. They didn't say "there's no evidence." They said "no one of good standing would ever believe this to be possible." https://t.co/f2iS8v2UXH

— Noam Blum (@neontaster) July 22, 2021

And what good is the investigation anyway since the “WHO is still in their pocket”?

Sacre merde! There is shock?

PSA. WHO is still in their pocket

In the worst catastrophe I have ever witnessed in my young and naive life I can't recall every side on the polar ends lynig about every goddamn thing

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some people find my naivete refreshing https://t.co/6UTlZxLDoA

— DaveinTexas (@DaveinTexas) July 22, 2021

The WHO will have to convince us they’ve changed:

their shock is quite understandable. @WHO has been so obedient to their wishes for so long. https://t.co/dk1h1T2BiI

— Byung Kyu Park (@bkpark) July 22, 2021

And, yes, this investigation should have happened already:

I'm shocked we haven't already investigated every possible origin. https://t.co/t9vI1M0QdS

— Heidi Hatch KUTV (@tvheidihatch) July 22, 2021

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