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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by jakear on Sunday June 11, 2023 @10:30AM (#36281770)
Hospitalization doesn’t mean severity. It has more to do with your confidence in your immune system and health insurance than anything else, though the hospital’s extra capacity and desire to make a buck off you is up there too.

But if you’re here to be put off by the smallest use of rhetoric, sure pop off on that.

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by BryantD on Sunday June 11, 2023 @10:41AM (#36281858)
If I reversed it and said “this can’t be a lab leak because lab leaks never happen,” would that be okay? They’re certainly rarer than serious cases of flu among adults in the age range.

It’s a contentious, difficult debate. I do actually think it’s bad to dismiss arguments you disagree with with casual rhetoric.

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Re:What went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted by jakear on Sunday June 11, 2023 @10:54AM (#36281968)
If that rhetorical device led me to research and discover reputable data suggesting the frequency of such occurrences was indeed so minuscule as to be disregarded entirely, I’d welcome it upsetting my preconceived notions.
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