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Re:Interim Report Analyzing Origins of Covid-19 Pandemic by 323 on Thursday October 27, 2022 @02:59PM (#33362340)
How does blaming a lab in China for the origin absolve the failures of the Western public health systems.
Re:Interim Report Analyzing Origins of Covid-19 Pandemic by rrwo on Thursday October 27, 2022 @04:57PM (#33363935)
It doesn't absolve anyone, it's a distraction
Re:Interim Report Analyzing Origins of Covid-19 Pandemic by davidork on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:25PM (#33364258)
A distraction from what?

China still has lockdowns and COVID is still all over the map in the US.

Aside from a few exceptions, most of the world seems to have suffered multiple failures in various areas in handling a pandemic.

Re:Interim Report Analyzing Origins of Covid-19 Pandemic by rrwo on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:00AM (#33369527)
It's a distraction from saying that the US public health system failed to deal with it.

The system (like in most countries) failed to detect that new and potentially virus was circulating for months.

The system failed in encouraging people to take precautions. A significant portion of the population, mostly associated with Republican party, fought against things like mask mandates and social distancing and ended up actively spreading the virus and making the pressures on the health care system worse.

The health care system in the US has been a failure even before the pandemic.

So rather than a constructive report that looks into how the system can be improved before the next pandemic, they'd rather point fingers at a lab.