Glad to live in a free country where we don't praise dictatorships and authoritarianism. The world should just boycott fucking China.
No, that's not because we're secretly in cahoots with communists—it's because we don't want a site that consists of lame flamewars and then turns itself into scorched earth and then heat death. We want thoughtful, curious conversation. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Edit: your previous two comments were egregiously breaking the rules here as well—even worse actually. That's seriously not ok. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stop posting like that, regardless of how strongly you feel about $country, and regardless of how legitimate your reasons are (which I'm sure they are). I don't want to ban you but we can't have accounts carrying on like that here.
Watching ADV China really helped me understand how bad the government is over there: https://youtube.com/c/ADVChina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-GVcfP1zrg
And here's a pretty thorough analysis of the flaws with this theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab-r0capbzk
Just watching the 'thorough' analysis video, he talks about some person who posted a paper about the source, and in the screenshot it shows Feb 2020. And says the source of the paper was from laowhy86's video, which is published April 2020.
I stopped watching there because it already makes no sense.
At timestamp 6:36 of his video [1], laowhy86 analyzes a copy of the draft "The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus" to conclude that the virus must have come from the lab. This preprint has been shown to be false by future scholarship (see the citations of the draft at [2] for some examples).
Potholer then analyzes the veracity of the claims within that preprint in his video [3], starting with an excerpt of [1] starting at 2:02.
So the timeline should be:
Feb. 2020 - Preprint published
->
Apr. 2020 - laowhy's video
->
May 2020 - potholer's rebuttal
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpQFCcSI0pU
[2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1699435143784344899...
what country is that?
There’s tens of millions of people with that name. The WHO did not want to stigmatize all of them which is why they skipped the letter. It had little to do with Xi Jinping alone.
The WHO moved to Greek lettering to avoid stigmatization faced by people who were being associated with different variants. It wouldn’t make much sense to do the same when you can avoid it by just skipping a letter.
There is a Mu variant of Covid[0]