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Re:Pandemic your grandparents forgot about by photochemsyn on Sunday September 03, 2023 @10:44AM (#37370839)
Covid will be much more memorable because it's the first global pandemic that originated via reckless genetic engineering practices that transformed a non-human bat coronavirus into a novel human pathogen.
Re:Pandemic your grandparents forgot about by 303uru on Sunday September 03, 2023 @11:33AM (#37371204)
Can we not with the disinformation?

“Of the three possibilities — natural, accidental, or deliberate — the most scientific evidence yet identified supports natural emergence. More than half of the earliest Covid-19 cases were connected to the Huanan market, and epidemiologic mapping revealed that the concentration of cases was centered there.”

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2305081

Re:Pandemic your grandparents forgot about by playday on Sunday September 03, 2023 @12:13PM (#37371573)
Because of the censorship and self censorship of science, it’s impossible for outsiders to know what happened one way or another. Linking to a journal article doesn’t solve that problem.
Re:Pandemic your grandparents forgot about by photochemsyn on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:17AM (#37388139)
I could have used all the qualifiers but at this point - I mean an outbreak in Wuhan going global that just happens to coincide with a sloppily managed virology research lab in Wuhan, the desperate effort to dissociate this common-sense version of events only demonstrates the scale of modern propaganda systems don't you think?

Oopsie we killed as 1/5th as many people as died in the WWII, but that's okay because it wasn't intended it was just an accident.

Re:Pandemic your grandparents forgot about by gardenhedge on Sunday September 03, 2023 @11:11AM (#37371041)
What's memorable was the lynch mobs that came after anyone saying it could have been made in a lab
Re:Pandemic your grandparents forgot about by liquidpele on Sunday September 03, 2023 @11:48AM (#37371332)
He didn’t say “could have” though did he? They never do.
Re:Pandemic your grandparents forgot about by philistine on Sunday September 03, 2023 @12:16PM (#37371594)
The lynch mob come out when people declare beyond the shadow of a doubt that COVID-19 is bio-engineered.

I have a very strong hunch that COVID-19 originated from rookie mistakes related to research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Unfortunately, we do not have enough proof, and can never move past the wishy-washy phase of it's probable. The Chinese apparatus made sure to quell any source of information that might leak.

People declaring it as fact without referring to the unfortunate reality that China has cast a veil around the origins of the virus is not helping the cause of truth.

Re:Pandemic your grandparents forgot about by trust_bt_verify on Sunday September 03, 2023 @01:10PM (#37372043)
Source for the lynch mob claim? I remember skepticism but no lynchings.