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  • khodahafez_dispenser [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    July 17, 2019 at 2:43 p.m. PDT

    A third person has died following an outbreak of respiratory illness at a Fairfax County assisted-living facility that began more than two weeks ago, county health officials said Wednesday.

    The outbreak at Greenspring Village in Springfield also spread to the unit’s staff, affecting 19 employees, Fairfax County Health Department officials said.

    Jesus, y'all are huffin on the fumes of contrarian propaganda. If there was a cluster of a couple dozen people with Covid who work at an assisted living center in early July 2019, there would have been large swaths of outbreaks immediately cascading in the aftermath.

    There's being skeptical. And then there's being gullible.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      If there was a cluster of a couple dozen people with Covid who work at an assisted living center in early July 2019, there would have been large swaths of outbreaks immediately cascading in the aftermath.

      You're assuming that whatever escaped there would've had the same level of transmissibility, which all confirmed COVID evidence shows would almost certainly not have been true. The virus has been GAINING transmissibility ever since November 2019.

      The Wuhan strain was less transmissible than the European strain, which was less than the UK strain, which is less transmissible than the Indian strain.

      It has literally been evolving to get more contagious for the last 1.5 years. If it had hypothetically escaped in July 2019 without starting an uproar, that wouldn't really contradict any of the confirmed pattern we've seen with covid thus far.

      There’s being skeptical. And then there’s being gullible.

      Why not bring up possible leads when everyone else is? Am I supposed to just swallow the idea that this definitely leaked from the Wuhan lab (which was fucking funded by the US anyway lmao).

      Are we supposed to just say "yes investigate Wuhan, but not also the suspicious events in the US"?

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      there would have been large swaths of outbreaks immediately cascading in the aftermath

      Like this? Or this? Or this?

      Maybe those outbreaks are all smaller and later than you'd expect, but consider the fact that if it did leak from Detrick, then the authorities likely knew who the patient zero was relatively quickly, which means they had an opportunity to do contact tracing to control the spread of the virus before they realized that it was too late to stop it. That could account for the slow spread for the first few months.

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        All those links you posted are from Decemberish, which is kinda whatever because everybody knows it was already here by December. I've posted a death from November which while not confirmed COVID, was EXTREMELY LIKELY to be COVID (blood clot after recovering from pneumonia in a young teen)

        However, your logic is correct, a single-person leak in June would've taken months to spread, especially if the original strain was even less contagious than the Wuhan one.

        There were also the August2019 vape-pneumonia outbreaks, which WAS NOT caused by vitamin E, and DID NOT happen in other countries. Vapers are 5x more likely to contract COVID if it's in the air: https://imgur.com/8mRz34e

        Perhaps the guys at Ft Detrick were tracing it, realizing it was getting out of hand, and decided to seed it en-masse at the Wuhan military games as a last resort. That's my current theory.