I hope he dies

  • NoEyed [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Maybe there was a coronavirus lab in Wuhan because coronavirus variants have been a known threat for a long time and they wanted to study them but I dunno I'm just some guy

    • pooh [she/her, any]
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      3 years ago

      Or maybe also that’s just where it was first identified in part due to help from the lab. There’s some evidence that it was circulating undetected well before this.

      • CommunistBear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I've had some thoughts about this point for a while now. Let's say it started in America: would we have ever even caught it? What are the chances the initial few patients would have even had healh insurance? What are the chances they would have gone to see a doctor even if they did have insurance due to time/cost? What are the chances the doctor wouldn't have just said "sounds like the flu, go home and rest"? What are the odds the doctor would have ordered samples of the virus to be looked at to see if it was a novel disease? At every possible instance the American system would have failed horribly.

    • Segorinder [any]
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      3 years ago

      Oh sure, my house is on fire and here comes the FIRE department to put it out! Your truck literally says FIRE on the side of it in big letters, and I'm supposed to listen to you? I'm really supposed to think it's just a coincidence that FIREfighters are at my house every week telling me to stop spending $3600 on candles?