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s/common cold/over 200 distinct viruses that cause the illness we call "a cold."/

• echelon 4y ago
  Sure, but investigators need to treat this subject with reverence. Unlike pretty much every other discipline on earth, this one has the potential to disrupt billions of lives from a single mistake. Virologists were the first ones that jumped to say Covid wasn't a lab leak, yet what they should have been saying was, "we'll get to the bottom of this and then, even if wasn't a lab leak, work to make sure that outcome never comes to pass." Instead we got a blame game, accusations of racism, and everyone not in their field was called stupid or incapable of understanding the situation if we asked for more light to be shed in the subject. Also, what happened to the scientific method? There was a whole lot of certainty being prematurely thrown around. This hubris won't do. I don't know how Covid came about, and at this point the only reason to know is to prevent the next one. But no matter the case, whatever is next better not be from a lab.
  • varelse 4y ago
• John23832 4y ago
  You want a global replace, so the end is "/g"... but I feel you lol.
  • birdyrooster 4y ago
    This is incorrect. I have posted the correction. Which I will repeat here for convenience: s/is no common.*/are over 200 distinct viruses that cause the illness we call “a cold.”/
    • John23832 4y ago
      Lol, I didn’t think this would be a thing… but I would think in your statement that you would want a fix for the multitude of viruses that are considered “conmmon colds” right? That’s what I meant. So you would want a global replacement.
• birdyrooster 4y ago
  s/is no common.*/are over 200 distinct viruses that cause the illness we call “a cold.”/