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>The Origins of Covid-19 — Why It Matters (and Why It Doesn’t) >More than half of the earliest Covid-19 cases were connected to the Huanan market, and epidemio

by pcrh 3y ago

>The Origins of Covid-19 — Why It Matters (and Why It Doesn’t) >More than half of the earliest Covid-19 cases were connected to the Huanan market, and epidemiologic mapping revealed that the concentration of cases was centered there. In January 2020, Chinese officials cleared the market without testing live animals, but positive environmental samples, including those from an animal cage and a hair-and-feather–removal machine, indicated the presence of both SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-susceptible animals.5 Recently released findings included raccoon dog DNA, pointing to a possible SARS-CoV-2 progenitor. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp2305081 https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMp2305081

reuben_scratton 3y ago
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- toast0 3y ago
  > Humans brought the virus to the market. It's screamingly obvious and always has been. Well of course, the racoon dogs et al all come in via human transport. Testing infrastructure was poor, and maybe it still is. Chinese government interest was not in finding facts, but in taking action to 'solve the problem'. It's hard to find facts when the people with power just want the problem to go away. IMHO, that doesn't weigh in favor of either explaination. The wuhan local government and the chinese national government would have likely taken the same actions regardless of the source, because they're both not very interested in facts. US health authorities pushing on the market theory are just doing their typical behavior of taking what little information is available and pushing it with no nuance. I enjoyed seeing the cdc stickers telling me not to use a mask out in public areas when the cdc was requiring them; the congitive dissonance was so palpable.
  - Atotalnoob 3y ago
    They said not to use them because there was a shortage of PPE. They prioritized healthcare workers to wear masks
- th0ma5 3y ago
  Saying something is obvious doesn't make it true.

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reuben_scratton 3y ago

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toast0 3y ago
> Humans brought the virus to the market. It's screamingly obvious and always has been. Well of course, the racoon dogs et al all come in via human transport. Testing infrastructure was poor, and maybe it still is. Chinese government interest was not in finding facts, but in taking action to 'solve the problem'. It's hard to find facts when the people with power just want the problem to go away. IMHO, that doesn't weigh in favor of either explaination. The wuhan local government and the chinese national government would have likely taken the same actions regardless of the source, because they're both not very interested in facts. US health authorities pushing on the market theory are just doing their typical behavior of taking what little information is available and pushing it with no nuance. I enjoyed seeing the cdc stickers telling me not to use a mask out in public areas when the cdc was requiring them; the congitive dissonance was so palpable.
- Atotalnoob 3y ago
  They said not to use them because there was a shortage of PPE. They prioritized healthcare workers to wear masks
th0ma5 3y ago
Saying something is obvious doesn't make it true.