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The source is irrelevant to to the virulence. We were able to measure the virulence from the start. That should be the guide for our response.

A natural virus could evolve to be very dangerous and a lab leak could give you a sore throat for a day. Origin != danger level.

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That's not what GP is saying.

Facts and figures are next to worthless when trying to motivate billions of people to do something. If people hear "Covid gives you flu symptoms", they aren't going to care. If people hear "Covid is an experimental virus that escaped from a lab", that's scary and people will care more.

Nah, the people who deny the severity of covid will do the same, because of their masters who downplay it for political purposes and for personal inconvenience. You can see it play out right now in a certain part of the political spectrum. "Covid is just a flu, don't need to risk a vaccine from it, but also it's a very dangerous virus released by Chyna".

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