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Re:It’s Time to Build by Barrin92 on Saturday April 18, 2020 @11:21PM (#22913237)
Not only is that factually incorrect as the other user pointed out, but you may be surprised that more than half of the worlds population lives in this circle (https://i.imgur.com/CK6aONG.jpg), so the fact that a lot of diseases originate there isn't as surprising as you might think.

Not to mention that diseases can break out everywhere, making the response to a pandemic significantly more important than trying to shift blame for what is essentially a game of chance.

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Re:It’s Time to Build by tomp on Monday April 20, 2020 @05:20AM (#22922345)
It's still pretty surprising, and probably has more to do with cultural practices of eating all kinds of wild animals, than with population density.

How many diseases originated in India?

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Re:It’s Time to Build by qplex on Saturday April 18, 2020 @11:35PM (#22913300)
>factually incorrect

It's not. SARS is from China.

>not to mention that diseases can break out everywhere

>essentially a game of chance

It's 100% preventable. Just cut contact with wildlife that spreads these viruses.

I'm only correcting the fallacy of praising any goverment that fails to address the root causes of these problems.

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