IIRC the theory isn't that it was created in a lab, just that it had been identified in the wild but was being researched in a lab and one of the researchers was careless and got exposed to it.

Will see if the team can extend the data more right now.

What else would shape that stuff? The magic conch?

That historic high was because they had to kill a lot of chickens infected with avian flu. CDC say nearly 60 million birds infect domestically in the US https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/data-map-commercial.html

47 million dead/culled to reduce spread as of October last year nearing the 2015 deadliest on record (50.5 million dead)

OP, any chance you saw that graph extended back a few more years?

Can we just get over it please. Being attracted to the same sex for some has been going on since the dawn of time. We're suppose to be the one with the brains, and yet we haven't figured that out yet? That tells me one of two things. We're either really stupid, or really selfish.

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I feel like this needs to be overlaid with the pornhub map of gay porn preferences.

How much would this chart change if it included banks that might have also failed, but were propped up by the federal government's TARP Act? Or it would there be a way to include this taxpayer cost to the chart, if it doesn't make sense to include those banks' corresponding sizes?

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More Americans don't even think about covid anymore nor give a shit about where it came from. We go on with our lives a year ago and loved the fuck on.

Interestingly, in terms of words with consecutive double letters, there is only 1 word with 3 consecutive double letters and only 1 word with 4 consecutive double letters. These words are Bookkeeper and Subbookkeeper respectively.

Here's the rub. If it were a true spillover event, the evidence would be EVERYWHERE. There would be so much worldwide evidence of a spillover that we wouldn't have even considered a lab leak scenario. In the absence of spillover evidence there are essentially two options 1) Wuhan was the epicenter of an extremely unlikely random combination of viruses leading to a pandemic capable SARS-CoV-2, or it somehow leaked from that lab. If I were a betting man, my money is on an accidental leak.

Origin aside, the CCP stopped all domestic flights from Wuhan weeks before they stopped all international flights. They knew about it and intentionally spread it to the rest of the world through that deliberate choice.

To me it doesn’t make a difference. 1. I’m fairly left leaning and always likely was created in a lab. At the same time, countries are doing this type of research all the time and it could have been anyone who fucked up. And 2. Chinas mismanagement of Covid has been horrific no matter how it started. Potentially covering up the issue and then their 0 Covid policy was horrible for their citizens.

We all know the CCP is a dictatorship that treats their citizens like shit, allows genocide and spies on their own people. Whether or not Covid was created in a lab is a very small reason I look at chinas government as a bunch of douches.

There’s more than a little evidence

Data source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Tool: Datawrapper

Post: https://mailchi.mp/grid.news/grid-today-what-desantis-means-on-ukraine?e=2181c60ee6

As it says plurality, I assume there were more than two options for a stance, ex. "Don't care' keeping "Support" from being the majority, but still a leading opinion.

yes it is but as I said a decade later a lotta old ppl will die and with better education the number would go up automatically . The lowest any major city gets is 68% at Dallas with NYC and others touching 91% already

Nutty is a good word. I'd also call it scary haha.

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Most prestigious institutions agree that a lab leak in China was most likely the cause.

We’ll never definitively know, but common sense, logic, and what little evidence we have all point to the most likely scenario being an accidental lab leak.

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It is a shame that in spite of such overwhelming support for gay marriage, we didn't have the courage to put it in as a Constitutional Amendment (despite there being several successfully passed Constitutional bans in many states, including California).

These opinions also shape politics, markets, and societal norms. Kinda nutty, innit?