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Imho, it's an interesting question but we will never know whether the virus started at the lab or the market (or somewhere else). Either way, it's China's inco
by LatteLazy 5y ago
Imho, it's an interesting question but we will never know whether the virus started at the lab or the market (or somewhere else).
Either way, it's China's incompetence and reckless endangerment of the rest of the world that has caused this. So the more important question is what we will do about it?
So far the answer seems to be "nothing because the price of cheap plastic shit might go up 2p a tonne and that's more concerning than a global pandemic".
- Udik 5y ago> Either way, it's China's incompetence and reckless endangerment of the rest of the world that has caused this. After seeing the response from Western countries, (delays, denialism, half measures, etc.) I really doubt we would have done any better. Probably worse.
- LatteLazy 5y agoWe already did much better: we never created a pandemic in the first place. You don't need to be great at dealing with plagues if you don't make them. That's the take away here, China can be as denialist as we are, but they have to fix their food hygiene (and lab security maybe?)... (none of this excuses how shit my government, UK, have performed)
- DebtDeflation 5y ago>we will never know whether the virus started at the lab or the market It didn't start at the market. They tested every animal there and found nothing, yet they found many infected people there and found the virus all over surfaces there. The market was an early superspreader event, not the origin.
- LatteLazy 5y agoI think there are too many unknowns to state either case as a fact: Did they test every animal that had been there? How? Weren't half of them sold and gone already? Do we know none got loose or came from outside?