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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by thehappypm on Monday November 09, 2020 @11:45AM (#25036648)
Yet another reason to move to a plant-based lifestyle. Covid came from some folks in China using exotic animals for some purpose. Now a new variant seems inevitable from animal populations. Is it worth the burgers and coats?
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by RobertDeNiro on Monday November 09, 2020 @01:33PM (#25037962)
You're being downvoted for no good reason. Mass farming is what brought us here. This will keep happening, unless we change our behavior.
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by Aaronstotle on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:38PM (#25040810)
Wet markets and mass farming are two different beasts
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by thehappypm on Monday November 09, 2020 @10:22PM (#25042547)
Are they though? Mass farming puts humans into orders of magnitude more contact with animals than wet markets. In the case of covid, a wet market led to the disease. There are plenty of cases — just about the majority of plagues — where a domesticated animal led to disease
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by to11mtm on Saturday November 14, 2020 @06:08PM (#25096546)
In some ways the dangers are different, perhaps more manageable in some cases. For wet markets, it's the unknown from nature. In the case of Domesticated markets, it is more typically an issue either from failures in procedure (i.e. e.coli/listeria/salmonella) or because of over-industrialization (Mad Cow Disease)
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Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by bamboozled on Monday November 09, 2020 @02:48PM (#25039050)
The true origin isn’t known. Maybe escaped from a lab, we don't know yet.
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by delecti on Monday November 09, 2020 @05:26PM (#25040707)
And maybe it was aliens, we don't know yet. But it's not really helpful to suggest random theories without a shred of evidence on the off-chance that they might be accurate, because that rabbit hole has no bottom.
Re:Covid vaccine: First ‘milestone’ vaccine offers 90% prote... by bamboozled on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:24PM (#25053482)
People have really overacted to my comment. It’s also “not helpful” to just dismiss the truth.

Without China cooperating and trying to save face, we don’t truly understand the origin of this virus and how it initially spread so well.

I responded to a post that said “we need to go plant based to avoid these things happening”.

Well going vegan won’t do so any good if this was released from a laboratory?