LMAO

  • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Absolutely watch it be from US factory farms.

  • secretspecter [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    This being notable only to highlight the idea that it literally doesn't fucking matter the origin except to play some absurd blame game or whatever the fuck. Shit it's almost like we share this responsibility that fundamentally transcends delusional legitimization of State—almost as if we live on one planet together. Fuck.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    This fucking makes sense because my partner caught a strange respiratory infection around March that year

    Like, they thought it was strep throat for a bit, but they got waylaid for three straight months with a bunch of (what we know now as) COVID symptoms

    It was nuts because she went to the doctor like five times and they kept telling her it was nothing to worry about because "Lots of people have been showing up with symptoms like these and they're fine because it wasn't showing up on strep or flu tests"

    • Randomdog [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      went to the doctor like five times and they kept telling her it was nothing to worry about because “Lots of people have been showing up with symptoms like these

      Reminds me of an old joke.

      What do you call the person who finished bottom of the class in medical school?

      Doctor.

    • PlantsRcoolToo [any]
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      4 years ago

      Wow, the same exact thing was happening in early 2020 at a school I worked at. A bunch of teachers kept getting sick and everyone just kinda thought it seemed like strep but people weren't testing positive for strep.

      Then in mid February 2020 I had a weird illness for a week, not too bad but nothing like any cold or flu I have had before. Probably wasn't covid but looking back on it I wonder.

  • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    While the presence of antibodies in a person's blood means they have been exposed to the pathogen in the past — in this instance the virus that causes Covid-19 — the kinds of tests used in this study are broader and less specific than would be needed to confirm that without any doubt. It is possible, as the authors themselves acknowledge, that the tests are picking up another kind of antibody that, while similar, is distinct; coronaviruses are a large and relatively common family of virus, including some that can cause the common cold, leaving open the possibility that infection by a non-Covid-19 virus induced the positive test results.

    Pretty important note for everyone who is just going to read the title and not the article.

    • gammison [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah every single one of these "covid was in x place in 2019" studies all use tests that can pick up other coronaviruses that cause common colds as false positives, take all them with big grains of salt.

  • JoeySteel [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    :thinkin-lenin:

    WASHINGTON – Less than a month before data shows the first Chinese citizen became ill with coronavirus, nearly 300 members of the U.S. military, Department of Defense, and support personnel attended the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China. When the games ended, they returned to at least 219 home bases in 25 states, without ever being screened for possible COVID-19 infection.

    https://prospect.org/coronavirus/did-the-military-world-games-spread-covid-19/

    I 100% believe it started in the US out of Fort Detrick and US used those military games to spread the virus in China in the same way the US refused to take resposnibility for the "Spanish" flu despite it originating in USA and Spain just being the 'first' to identify it. Whether they did it deliberately thinking they could witness " Chinas Chernobyl moment " or whether it was an accident like the US leaking lyme disease is anyones guess