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Here is the thing, I've been reading more and more about the spread of COVID-19 started in Wuhan due to the military games in October 2019:

https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/global/coronavirus...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8327047/More-compet...

If the illness there was COVID-19, with delegates from over 100 countries at the military games, the origin of the virus then is still very much unknown! China being the first country to detect the virus and report on it, while being demonised, makes a really bad precedence for countries to not be the first country to report on a new outbreak in the future.

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The Spanish flu is called the Spanish flu because all the other countries refused to report on it, so all the news of this new disease came from Spain, hence the name.

Sounds like a similar thing might have happened here.

Absolutely nothing in either of those articles indicates the virus originated anywhere but China.

That it was circulating in Wuhan in October widely enough for contagion at military games suggests strongly that it's origin is in fact China.

How does it strongly suggest the origin is in China? The disease was first detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, where many countries (especially European ones) are starting to find that their first cases were in December 2019 (if not earlier) as well. Once again, this is really stating my point that China detected COVID-19 sooner than everyone else, and hence demonised by it, setting an incredibly bad precedence for future outbreaks!

It's unfortunate that we as a species cannot prioritize the health of the whole over preoccupied defensive posturing in order to hide all weaknesses. Like a decayed tooth that's just a shell of its former self...

This is a conspiracy theory that was propagated by PRC state media which the CCP ultimately ended up back-tracking on due to the absence of basis in facts and research.

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