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Re: too close to call imo
05/03/20 08:03 PM
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>One other issue I find most surprising is its timing. Notice how at the height of the
>protests in China and entering the center of attention on the world stage that low and
>behold a virus breaks out to force people into their homes and off the streets. Again a
>lucky coincidence for Chinese officials.
The timing of when the Hong Kong region protests [which I agreed with HK protesters regarding their issue against the HK regional government] might still be coincidental timing.
The lab being built had some assistance from US agencies for construction details, but the two factors that I still lean with are: "sloppy mismanagement of lab operations OR natural transmission hop of virus from one animal to another where things went downhill from there."
Either way it's on China regardless. If it were a deliberate release against HK protestors, government officials would go with mindset that it could easily backfire on them. There had been speculation on that, but with China having past SARs experience and other virus outbreaks, I can't see it being a deliberate stunt since they had a hard time trying to contain past outbreaks over last 15 years.
>As far as the u.s. goes, blame who ever you want.
If US still had pandemic response team and a Beijing based CDC staff member still there, the outbreak might have been minimized, but that is a big "If". It could have still gone bad, but Taiwan and S. Korea had learned from past outbreaks and went the extra effort to prevent latest outbreak from causing chaos in their regions.
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