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2022-06-17 07:58:36 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0EA7F2F7EB85A0F33E9157CB3487AE228B3A3E746267753D0FE81E6F02CD217B
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Original Note:
This is a joke about Anthony Fauci contracting Covid. Shouldn’t need a note, but here we are. The joke references a theory that gain of function research causes the outbreak, and the contested belief that Fauci, among other world scientists propagated this research. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/29/repeated-claim-that-fauci-lied-congress-about-gain-of-function-research/
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