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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by geysersam on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:42AM (#30073019)
You cannot possibly blame the Chinese government or the people for the Corona virus. That's just insane.

Granted, the official response wasn't good. But a virus pandemic was ever only a question of time. It's unlikely it could have been prevented wherever it had started.

Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by iamstupidsimple on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:48AM (#30073108)
Is there a credible reason why SARS and COVID both came from the same country?

The right official response would've been to not start a cover up (and the rest of the world could've hopefully prepared better). Even the WHO was carrying water for China in Feb 2020.

Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by reincarnate0x14 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:54AM (#30073203)
Because that coronavirus in endemic to bat populations in that part of China. Covid19, for layman's purposes, is basically slightly mutated SARS, and is called SARS-CoV-2. That's why the virology lab is in Wuhan.
Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by geysersam on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:49AM (#30073130)
Yes, the reason is that a fifth of the world population lives there.
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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by officialjunk on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:06AM (#30073422)
you need to travel internationally more.
Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:20AM (#30073645)
Not just now, though.
Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by cinntaile on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:49AM (#30073132)
I don't think the dust has settled on whether this was manmade or not?
Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by geysersam on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:02AM (#30073328)
Even if it was manmade the responsibility for that should fall on the international scientific community rather than the Chinese government and even less so on the people.

The lab in Wuhan was not scientifically isolated, funding came from abroad. Similar research has been conducted elsewhere.

Of course it's still important to find out the truth on the matter.

Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by suifbwish on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:12AM (#30073509)
Sure we can blame them. They tried to cover it up in the beginning. It would be insane NOT to blame them for that. It’s also been debunked that the virus came from a wet market.
Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by tim333 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:31AM (#30073835)
It's still a bit of an open question on the wet market.
Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by bigyellow on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:00AM (#30073303)
> You cannot possibly blame the Chinese government or the people for the Corona virus. That's just insane.

Insane is what they do to animals in their so-called "wet markets". Take a look at some footage if you still have any respect left for the CCP.

Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by josephcsible on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:59PM (#30075316)
I can 100% blame the Chinese government. If they enforced Western safety standards, COVID almost certainly would never have happened.
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Re:We purchased a machine from China and it came with malwar... by Dah00n on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:59AM (#30073289)
> you want to live like that or remain free

Depends on how you define free. The US population is definitely not free either when seen from Scandinavia. The US is only more free if freedom is defined as Free to be unprotected from big business etc.