Post AdYhIUDAiUGobWrVLs by kegill@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AdMM5K8kQ9AKfa9jEG by augieray@mastodon.social
       2023-12-31T03:34:12Z
       
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       4 years ago today, Dr. Li Wenliang warned of a suspected SARS patient in a Wuhan WeChat group. It went viral, becoming the earliest warning of what we now know as #COVID19.Days later, he was arrested for “making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak.”He returned to work, contracted COVID from a patient, and died on February 7, 2020.People were punished & died trying to keep others safe. Four years later, we still can't get people to care, mask, or protect each other.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdMMCrWIiIUODrldHE by baltakatei@twit.social
       2023-12-31T06:07:10Z
       
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       @augieray A citeable article for your claims: https://www.bjnews.com.cn/feature/2020/01/31/682076.html
       
 (DIR) Post #AdYgSMe1bZLu4sZJUe by jeffmcneill@fosstodon.org
       2023-12-31T10:30:41Z
       
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       @augieray This is not true in all regions / countries. The majority of people still mask in Thailand. My children mask in their elementary schools. We also mask when there is poor air quality.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdYgdE5Fm418iDU3s0 by kegill@mastodon.social
       2023-12-31T08:55:53Z
       
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       @RoyBrander@urbanists.social @augieray Dear Roy:SARS-CoV-2 was not “China’s fault”Researchers have found SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Italian samples from in September 2019.Two patients in Milan, Italy, tested positive in November 2019. The first globally declared case of COVID-19 was in Wuhan, China, on 8 December 2019.Retrospective analyses show the virus was in the US by the week of 13 December 2019.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8778320/
       
 (DIR) Post #AdYgdEgpWM4ial44RM by jeffcliff@shitposter.club
       2024-01-06T04:52:35.180373Z
       
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       > Researchers have found SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Italian samples from in September 2019.That doesn't mean covid was there. >The first globally declared case of COVID-19 was in Wuhan, China, on 8 December 2019.But the first cases were in wuhan earlier. generally: you are not taking into account @Angie_rasmussen 's report on the covid's early origin, and are making more out of Ig* tests than the data actually can say
       
 (DIR) Post #AdYhIRphYmJ9E9rjUW by auscandoc@med-mastodon.com
       2023-12-31T23:59:12Z
       
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       @kegill @augieray Some important detail from this paper (I’m not about saying it was anyone’s “fault”)“These findings do not at all suggest that the virus originated in Italy, but they endorse the idea that the virus was likely spreading in China before the first known cases and that could have been circulated by travelers given direct the connections between China and European and US countries, particularly the Northern West and East Italian regions,”
       
 (DIR) Post #AdYhISccctRJfsknk8 by auscandoc@med-mastodon.com
       2024-01-01T00:00:51Z
       
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       @kegill @augieray “Evidence used to support this hypothesis comes from a comparative genomic analysis of more than 175,000 genomes, which delineated 22 distinct SARS-CoV-2 haplogroups with a broad geographic distribution within China, pointing towards an early emergence and widespread cryptic circulation of the virus well before its isolation in January 2020”
       
 (DIR) Post #AdYhITJA4jT1noem36 by kegill@mastodon.social
       2024-01-01T11:07:27Z
       
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       @auscandoc @augieray Yup. And that was a relatively old paper. The “Spanish flu” did not originate in Spain… “the most likely site of origin was Haskell County, Kansas, an isolated and sparsely populated county in the southwest corner of the state, in January 1918.”Does that mean (riffing off the post that ticked me off) that the US “was responsible” for 21-100 million deaths … when the global population was <2 billion? We had a warning doctor, too. 🧵1https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC340389/
       
 (DIR) Post #AdYhIUDAiUGobWrVLs by kegill@mastodon.social
       2024-01-01T11:21:34Z
       
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       @auscandoc @augieray Answering myself, no. But there is a case for criticism. South Korea has a Covid death rate of 69 per 100,000 (36,000 in population of 52,000,000)The US rate is 357 per 100,000 (1,200,000 in population of 336,000,000). Why? We have a lot of politicians and news organizations who continue, through rhetoric and action, to affect our excessive level of death and infection (see long Covid). /2 fini
       
 (DIR) Post #AdYiwzX5mfEbHc3eCG by mac_ack@hidamari.apartments
       2024-01-06T05:18:32.910692Z
       
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       @augieray COVID mostly petered out over the last 2 years