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the_bird 13 points ago +13 / -0

No...CHY-NA!

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HuggableBear 11 points ago +11 / -0

It is much more transmissible and much more deadly than the flu.

If there were no real treatments, like the flu, this shit would be a nightmare.

Luckily, antimalarial drugs work wonders if you catch it early.

The trick to this thing is to keep ultra close watch on high risk people and treat it immediately. The rest of us can go back to work.

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DemigoD 6 points ago +7 / -1

This is one of those cases where the truth is somewhere in the middle.

The virus is not the flu. It's significantly worse than the flu.

It also is (as best as I can tell) probably not bad enough to merit shutting down the entire global economy. That being said, I have the benefit of hindsight PLUS we have already significantly flattened the curve. A month ago, it was way scarier because the virus was wreaking havoc on NY, Italy, and most likely China (despite their poor cover up job)

In a nutshell, there's a HUGE difference between "flu" and "end of the world pandemic". I think this Corona is somewhere in the middle. It's definitely more than a flu though

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d_bokk 5 points ago +5 / -0

Context:

The virologist, from Wuhan in China, is the 'Bat Woman' scientists who discovered the coronavirus gene sequence within days of the first reported case of the outbreak.

But she was then 'muzzled' from revealing the truth about her incredible discovery in the fight against Covid-19, fuelling fears of a cover up by the Chinese authorities.

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OneOfMany_MAGA 6 points ago +6 / -0

A lot of people think it came from her lab, despite her denials.

She was awfully quick with that gene sequencing...

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d_bokk 6 points ago +6 / -0

Article also says she herself thought it came from her lab:

And Zhengli had one overriding fear - had the new virus been accidentally unleashed by the lab she worked in.

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DiscerningSword 3 points ago +3 / -0

The bitch is isolating a virus. It's alot eaiser to isolate a virus in a Lab with presequiced labratory animals than it is in Humans..

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Wuzizname 5 points ago +5 / -0

I’m sure this woman is in a tiger cage and hidden away in some Chinese gulag by now.

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BetsyRossRocks 5 points ago +5 / -0

Carol Baskins will feed her to the tigers

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BeMyFren 4 points ago +4 / -0

That fuckin bitch Carole Baskin.

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