One note: China’s policies will be seen as a failure due to their initial denial and persecution of the medical professionals attempting to call attention to the issue, they have already undermined any response’s success or failure
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This is a WAG, but maybe Vitamin D fortified milk?
Baseline rates of deaths from political violence are a bit tricky to pin down, but a process of elimination on homicides (YMMV, depending on which political acts you normalize as, on balance, apolitical. For various reasons, I tend to exclude DV, and theft, but include racism and police violence as political) gets us to 1k to 5k per year for the past decade, so, assigning an expectation of 1% for breaching 5k for the next year seems low.
We are likely operating on different definitions what constitutes political acts
To clarify, when you say ‘originated in a laboratory’ do you mean engineered in a laboratory; evolved in an intentionally infected lab animal; or transiently stored in a laboratory?
These are very different hypotheses, but are often conflated.
So far, there is strong evidence that it was not engineered [the spike protein is novel, and not something from the geneticists toolbox], and I haven’t seen any evidence that would favor lab storage or evolution over the much larger wild populations of bats and intermediary animal hosts.
On a side note, we probably want to preserve (or strongly encourage preserving) the quality of requiring and using a visible scratch space, the “show your work” quality is extraordinarily useful
Above and beyond it’s APM, it was doing things humans physically can’t do with the camera in order to micro perfectly on three effective screens at once, with effectively infinite mouse speed, and no input lag
Basically, #2 in the article dominates with how it won