Which literally won't happen because the information does not exist in the world. Unless you're expecting a Chinese researcher to identify themselves as patient 0.

So your fixation on root causing is having precisely the effect that I mention, which is preventing mitigation.

> So your fixation

Friend, I don't seem to be the one with a fixation here. Please avoid personal attacks.

Your declared imperative? Your stated goal? Your admitted priority?

It's not a personal attack, it is referring to a belief that you stated you have.

Not sure what's triggering about "fixation" but feel free to swap out any of the above phrases.

> declared imperative? Your stated goal? Your admitted priority?

No, I'm not sure any of those phrases fit a casual conversation on a message board.

> Not sure what's triggering

Are you triggered? I'm not triggered. I just posted a link, and responded when prompted.

Huh, if you don't believe it's important to discover the origin of COVID then I'm not sure what we've been talking about. Have a good day!

I'm not sure what you've been talking about either! Seems like you have beef with someone about epidemiology. I don't know who. Or maybe you're just burnt out on discussion of the topic, which happens. Others of us are not. And that is OK.