I don’t trust the US to detect it if the outbreak happened there. Two main reasons I can think of are the backlash their biological warfare research programs world get and how they don’t really care if people die which can be gathered from looking at their death toll to the virus.
I remember Jeffrey Sachs mentioning that waste water samples were available for a bunch of US states (with bioweapons labs) from the last few months of 2019, but strangely enough they were destroyed without being tested.
Just because people believe it doesn’t mean it’s correct. People believed the sun revolved around the earth too, that was an obvious fact for the longest time.
That’s the whole damn reason papers exist my dude. If you want people to take you seriously, you better justify your views with evidence. This isn’t the middle ages anymore.
It was first detected there because China has a robust public health system. There’s some epidemiological evidence that it was spreading in Italy before that, but was being misdiagnosed as influenza.
If proven, then this is the same situation as how the Spanish Flu got its name. It started in the US but Spain was the one most proactive in documenting it (like China is now) and ended up involuntarily getting their country slapped on it.
Interesting how the libs are way more doubtful of this than the China leak one, despite this one coming from a major western biomed journal.
Yeah, funny how that works.
Probably because it started in wuhan.
I don’t trust the US to detect it if the outbreak happened there. Two main reasons I can think of are the backlash their biological warfare research programs world get and how they don’t really care if people die which can be gathered from looking at their death toll to the virus.
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I remember Jeffrey Sachs mentioning that waste water samples were available for a bunch of US states (with bioweapons labs) from the last few months of 2019, but strangely enough they were destroyed without being tested.
Take your bets guys! Was it “we don’t even want to know” or was it “holy shit we actually found something in these!”
Hey, can I get a preprint of that counter-paper you’re submitting to the Lancet?
I suppose pointing out an obvious fact that explains people’s perceptions requires a formal academic paper now.
Just because people believe it doesn’t mean it’s correct. People believed the sun revolved around the earth too, that was an obvious fact for the longest time.
That’s the whole damn reason papers exist my dude. If you want people to take you seriously, you better justify your views with evidence. This isn’t the middle ages anymore.
It was first detected there because China has a robust public health system. There’s some epidemiological evidence that it was spreading in Italy before that, but was being misdiagnosed as influenza.
If proven, then this is the same situation as how the Spanish Flu got its name. It started in the US but Spain was the one most proactive in documenting it (like China is now) and ended up involuntarily getting their country slapped on it.