I don't think Yuval is trying to "big brain", just rationalize what the world will become under the need of "emergency" like here, Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus[1], he's not shown interest in "speculating" the origins of the virus or how the pandemic begins so compare this trait to some other "big brain" out there
> There are real issues to criticize with China, and Huawei is not the worst one
you are right atm "Western Leader" only care and dare to point finger on things in their evidence and interest, when this pandemic still rampaging after a year and getting worst in some country despite the use of vaccines(made in China), Huawei is not the worst one to criticize and confront CCP with
iirc untyped is not incorrect, untyped lambda calculus for instance is where your value type is unknown until your runtime like dynamic type, untyped doesn't mean you don't have type in your language
there were similar conspiracy way back in 2003 when SARS outbreak, except this time in 2019~, the social medias are way more viral than the virus and CCP apparently can't suppress these "contents/info/fakenews" even with the enormous help from WHO