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How the USA has become a melting pot for anti-science 'viruses' (2)

By Li Yidan, Qing Ming, Xian Jiangnan, Liu Ning    People's Daily Online   08:04, September 02, 2021

For example, Senator Rand Paul, who introduced a bill to remove mask mandates on public transportation last month, was suspended from YouTube for one week after he posted a video claiming that most masks don't work. And don't forget Greg Abbott, governor of Texas. He was an adamant opponent for school mask mandates, and recently tested positive for COVID-19.

Well, the divide in vaccinations and mask wearing has made the pandemic in the US "a tale of two Americas", but it's not the end of the story. It is not only making the country worse, but making the world worse. By spreading conspiracy theories, such as the idea that the coronavirus was leaked from a Wuhan lab, it's making the global drive to save lives more and more irrelevant.

And the new low of America's misinformation campaign happened on the day when Joe Biden ordered American intelligence agencies to "redouble" its efforts to investigate the origins of COVID-19 in Wuhan. Intelligence agencies, yeah, you heard right, the ones that were responsible for concocting the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" hoax over Iraq.