Wuhan marks its anniversary with triumph and denial
www.bbc.com
In the city where the virus first emerged there is now an insistence that it came from elsewhere.

Favs included:

  • The West can't stop the virus because it has sooo much freedom!

  • OoOoOOoOoh what if the virus came from an spooky chinese lab

  • The chinese support their government (y'know the one that saved them from the virus while the west is still letting millions die a year later) therefore they are brainwashed

  • gammison [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah media bias is a fuck. It is highly likely it was a different antibody though tbh, but it still may have been in Italy a few weeks earlier than reported. Covid causes death spikes so quickly. There will probably be this year some study out on unaccounted pneumonia spikes in various places that will give more info on early outbreaks. The only for sure info I'm aware of we have from genetic sequencing on covid shows the two closest known viruses are a bat Coronavirus found in Yunnan, and a Coronavirus found in dead pangolins also in Yunnan. Getting more specific than that will require huge amounts of sampling various animals in the region.