How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory

Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by katbyte on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:59PM (#27191129)

There hadn’t been one at this scale for 100 years, who’s to say how long it would have been till the next natural one, I for one would rather not have experienced a global pandemic even if a natural one was due in 50 years

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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by swader999 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:27AM (#27191258)

The 68 flu killed between 1-4 million, so the high end in that one would be comparable to what we see with covid.

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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by katbyte on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:56AM (#27191634)

1-4 that didn’t shutdown the wold isn’t comparable to covid nearing 4 million verified and likely far higher despite many actions and lockdowns taken. I’d much rather have lived through a 68 flu then covid thank you

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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by swader999 on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:33AM (#27191820)

The 68 was a lot more deadly amongst the young. Shutting the world was a political decision not a fact of the virus' behavior.

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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by Godel_unicode on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @12:57PM (#27197562)

In 1968:

- The population was much less densely gathered

- The world population was roughly half what it is today

- There was much less air travel

- Testing was much worse

- Statistics about mortality were much less evenly gathered

There are worse things than lockdown.

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