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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by switch007 on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:23AM (#32948041)
Are you saying coronaviruses were completely unknown to us in 2020? Have some balance.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by PaulDavisThe1st on Friday September 23, 2022 @12:34AM (#32948100)
Nope. I'm saying there was no way to know who had any level of natural immunity to SARS-COV-2.
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Re:Censorship by big tech at the behest of the U.S. government? by origin_path on Friday September 23, 2022 @04:11AM (#32949238)
The topic was never explored so we don't know if there was no way to know. Instead, epidemiologists just assumed 100% susceptibility, droplet transmission and no seasonality, i.e. that everyone would get infected all at once in one giant wave. This was wrong and also, in contradiction with all pre-existing knowledge of both how coronaviruses work and how SARS-1 worked (SARS-1 was airborne over long distances).
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