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  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    4 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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      4 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.