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  • mg335

    Anyone else regularly have this overwhelming feeling that, whether it was a lab leak, or something at that wet market, if ONE, just ONE person hadn't screwed up, maybe none of this would have ever happened?

    Sometimes I feel like it's some kind of absurd dream that all depends on that ONE mistake or incident, and if it had not happened, all of this wouldn't be real.

    • It's the batterfly effectPhanLo
    • Bennn?palimpsest
    • same with that one idiot serb and the misfortunate series of events that led to hime shooting and killing Arch Duke Ferdinand. that one bullet caused the deaths_niko
    • of hundreds of millions of people, ushered in the nuclear age and created the world we know today._niko
    • Hahh few days ago i had this discussion with a colleague we ended up laughing at that the end of the world will be becausested
    • Dunno, where China's concerned, it's an entire political culture to blame, starting with Herr Poo himself.Nairn
    • one test engineer at the first working fusion reactor forgot to drink its coffee.sted
    • Someone just had to fuck a pangolin.monospaced
    • bigger than china tbh. lab fuck-ups are swept under the carpet all the timekingsteven
    • when the uk culled nearly 3m sheep because gov't based it's CJD policy on a lab study that mixed up cow and sheep brains tissue samples? report buried.kingsteven
    • Not really, we all know about it and it was acted upon. There's a gulf of difference between that and a deferrant culture that seeks not to challenge leadershipNairn
    • A group of people fucked up. That group are the CCP.shapesalad
    • its always a culmination to a singularity.. so pretty normal.neverscared
    • More if hundreds of millions of people didn't listen to sound medical advice, then yes we wouldn't be here.garbage
    • This, or something like this was an inevitability the moment virologists decided to alter viruses to become more infectious to humans...monNom
    • ...whether covid was that is an open question. But seems to be a question nobody really wants the answer to. If it wasn't covid, it would be another virus.monNom
    • The die was cast the moment someone discovered they could.monNom
    • It's a bioweapon. The softest bullet ever shotBrabo_Brabo
    • 12 Monkeysmisterhow
    • All this was a test.grafician
    • Soft launch.palimpsest
    • beta test almost finish...shapesalad
    • yes?Bennn
    • Statistically, you could argue it would never have hinged on one person's fault because as long as it exists, the dice would've kept on rolling.cannonball1978
    • Yes.palimpsest
    • We don't know how it originated but what's more likely? It happened from one freak event...or there was a virus already circulating in animals, and during theyuekit
    • millions of interactions between humans and animals it finally crossed over to humans. The second scenario is inherently more likely but it also means there wasyuekit
    • probably not one single person or event that made it happen, anymore than COVID-19 ending up in the USA (or any country) was the fault of one person.yuekit

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