• @[email protected]
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    1382 months ago

    Oh we’re getting lockdowns alright, just not related to anything the WHO will recommend.

    • @[email protected]
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      302 months ago

      Remember how ok conservatives were about the parts of covid you could be racist about? Yeah they’re more or less going to do that but just those parts and probably unrelated to a virus.

      • @RememberTheApollo_
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        142 months ago

        And the parts that inconvenienced them.

        If NY was locked down with refrigerator trailers full of the dead, that’s fine. If Dallas has the same, fuckit, we’re going to Applebee’s.

        There’s a serious level of chauvinism to their ideological club.

        • @[email protected]
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          92 months ago

          A lot of people blamed Asians conceptually for Covid, everything from saying it came from eating dogs to the idea of the Chinese government making it on purpose.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 months ago

              Think about it for a second, even if it was a man made virus how would you go about proving that without somebody saying “yeah it was me and this is how I did it in immaculate detail”, and even if somebody did that there’s a decent chance they’re lying for the fame.

              • AnIndefiniteArticle
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                12 months ago

                I read that there would be genetic markers of a manmade virus, and that this virus’s RNA matched a natural evolution.

                Every action leaves some sort of trace.

                • lad
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                  12 months ago

                  Markers for manmade virus sounds like something you can opt out of if you don’t want to follow conventions. The best article I saw about whether it was human made or not stated that the virus has several mutations that made it better accommodated to humans, each of those could appear naturally, all of them appearing naturally is also possible but less likely.

                  Also no, it’s not like you could read a fine print ‘Made in China’ on a virus, unfortunately. Even if there are traces, those traces are much less definitive than what we can get in normal scale world