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simpkill t1_jcoxlbj wrote

Well I think what keeps people unsure is articles like this:

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/3/11/three-years-later-what-we-know-how-did-covid-19-start

And conspiracy theories aren't a problem. The government does and has conspired to cover things up. I'm not saying that is happening here, but I can't blame anyone for not trusting the authorities.

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mynameismy111 t1_jcog61g wrote

Unlikely

Guess how many virus interact and spread every day in a wet market

One, dozens, millions?

Trillions?

About 10 to the 10-30 range

Combination of viruses? No, how did the variants since alpha form? Delta, omicron, Oh wait lab leak, got us there

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mynameismy111 t1_jcofp5q wrote

2003

What happened?

Coronavirus

19?

No

SARs

No

https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/06/ehd-zoonotic-diseases/_old/article.html#:~:text=Previous%20Coronaviruses&text=SARS%20was%20initially%20present%20in,into%20humans%20in%202002%2D03.

SARS was initially present in an as-yet unknown animal reservoir, perhaps bats, and was passed to civet cats, relatives of the mongoose. Evidence shows that as it circulated in the civet cats, it gained mutations that allowed it to cross over into humans in 2002-03. More than 8,000 people worldwide became sick with SARS and 774 died.

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mynameismy111 t1_jcofk04 wrote

"Low confidence"

Low

So............

For those not watching the news in 03 coronavirus jumping species into humans and killing contagiously already happened before

https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/06/ehd-zoonotic-diseases/_old/article.html#:~:text=Previous%20Coronaviruses&text=SARS%20was%20initially%20present%20in,into%20humans%20in%202002%2D03.

SARS was initially present in an as-yet unknown animal reservoir, perhaps bats, and was passed to civet cats, relatives of the mongoose. Evidence shows that as it circulated in the civet cats, it gained mutations that allowed it to cross over into humans in 2002-03. More than 8,000 people worldwide became sick with SARS and 774 died.

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mynameismy111 t1_jcofdt2 wrote

No, not a lab, it's been a threat and concern for decades cause it happened before

https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/06/ehd-zoonotic-diseases/_old/article.html#:~:text=Previous%20Coronaviruses&text=SARS%20was%20initially%20present%20in,into%20humans%20in%202002%2D03.

SARS was initially present in an as-yet unknown animal reservoir, perhaps bats, and was passed to civet cats, relatives of the mongoose. Evidence shows that as it circulated in the civet cats, it gained mutations that allowed it to cross over into humans in 2002-03. More than 8,000 people worldwide became sick with SARS and 774 died.

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mynameismy111 t1_jcof74c wrote

If? It's happened before

https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/06/ehd-zoonotic-diseases/_old/article.html#:~:text=Previous%20Coronaviruses&text=SARS%20was%20initially%20present%20in,into%20humans%20in%202002%2D03.

SARS was initially present in an as-yet unknown animal reservoir, perhaps bats, and was passed to civet cats, relatives of the mongoose. Evidence shows that as it circulated in the civet cats, it gained mutations that allowed it to cross over into humans in 2002-03. More than 8,000 people worldwide became sick with SARS and 774 died.

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mynameismy111 t1_jcof25s wrote

No

https://news.emory.edu/features/2020/06/ehd-zoonotic-diseases/_old/article.html#:~:text=Previous%20Coronaviruses&text=SARS%20was%20initially%20present%20in,into%20humans%20in%202002%2D03.

SARS was initially present in an as-yet unknown animal reservoir, perhaps bats, and was passed to civet cats, relatives of the mongoose. Evidence shows that as it circulated in the civet cats, it gained mutations that allowed it to cross over into humans in 2002-03. More than 8,000 people worldwide became sick with SARS and 774 died.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

Apparently virus jumping from species to species isn't taught

Considering it already happened in 03 with SARS and most Americans don't know

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mynameismy111 t1_jcoe56c wrote

Unfortunately for that theory no, we do know

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

We have actual research on the ground from the actual wet market it spread from

COVID-19 was some magic mutant only a lab could make, look at every variant since, that's what natural evolution looks like, it spreads mutates, jumps species

That this is still rocket science to the public after three years it's freaking insane

But if the public wants to believe whatever conspiracy theory they want than what's the worse could happen again

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mynameismy111 t1_jcodvi6 wrote

"Fauci, mainstream" ah yes right wing buzzwords from those sooooooo concerned about COVID they blocked any efforts to fight the pandemic no matter how small.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

We know how and where COVID-19 came from

Also.... Did China release new batches around the world for each new variant? Oh wait invisible data destroyed allegedly according to those with no political schemes

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mynameismy111 t1_jcodk4p wrote

Unfortunately people will study conspiracy tv theories rather than actual scientific articles

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

We know where it came from, the coronavirus (es) r among the most common natural pathogens and cross species contamination ( wet markets) encourage them to jump into new vectors and pandemic. It's been an obvious concern for decades, it happened before in China but everyone in the west forgot about. Therefore pandering them with creative lies works well on them.

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mynameismy111 t1_jcobkhx wrote

I'm interest rate drops strangled bank revenues, the 80s is the worst as that was their peak and largest basis point drop per decade in modern history

It's how the worst failures weren't at the worst points of the decade ie the bottoms of those decades/ crisis, but later as rates fell massively or sat near zero for years.

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