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So the Chinese government, it appears, may not only have hid COVID-19 in their borders and just

held on to that information long enough for COVID-19 to escape their borders and kill millions of people.

But it now appears that mounting evidence shows that this thing probably started or could have started in a Chinese laboratory.

Apparently this Chinese laboratory was performing gain of function research where scientists take viruses.

They make them more deadly so that they can learn exactly how to

fight those viruses, except the containment protocols at this Chinese lab were not proper,

and so some scientists got the virus and then proceeded to transmit it to others outside the lab

beginning, the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed millions of lives and completely destroyed

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