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Maybe I inhabit a different world from others, but this was not a conspiracy theory - at least if you had at least one friend from mainland China. However, I t
by dhbsbd636 6y ago
Maybe I inhabit a different world from others, but this was not a conspiracy theory - at least if you had at least one friend from mainland China.
However, I think that people were right to push back against strong claims about a novel virus. At the time it was unclear whether this was another SARS or MERS, not quite as bad, or something worse. We didn’t even know for sure whether it bound ACE2 or DPP4 before mid February.
Hindsight is 2020 and I am very skeptical of anybody who claims they knew anything about the SARS-CoV-2 virus with any degree of certainty back in January.
- apostacy 6y agoThe fact that the Chinese government was reacting to is so severely was all the evidence required. And all I wanted was temporary travel moratorium while data could be gathered, and some temporary mask mandates. We ended up doing it anyway, but we did it the hard way, after it was far too late. I had no real idea of the nature of the virus, but I knew full well in December 2019 that we should be closing the borders and stockpiling supplies. Things would surely have turned out better for all of us if we hadn't tolerated big tech interfering in the news. But sadly, for so many people, they trusted the debunkers and really believed it was all fake news. I can't imagine what a shock it must have been for them.