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I'm excited to find out in 20 years what the deal was with Covid once everybody has forgotten all their political opinions.

• iwonthecase 3y ago
  Good luck, there's still academics debating about the 1977 "Russian" flu [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu
  • Aachen 3y ago
    > The outbreak in northern China started in May 1977 Coincidence? Do they have a climate conducive to these sorts of viruses combined with a large enough population to make it likely they get infected first or is this my selection bias in noticing when it says "started in China" versus any other country?
    • philjohn 3y ago
      Large population that lives very close to natural reservoirs for viruses. Spillover is a great book to read about zoonotic diseases.
    • pvg 3y ago
      It would be odd vs any other country if any other country contained a quarter of the world population in 1977.
• Aachen 3y ago
  To me on an individual level, it feels like there isn't much unclear about covid if you know how to filter unlikely conspiracy theories and such. In what way do you see politics colouring the generally established information?
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