Poliovirus that infected a Chinese child in 2014 may have leaked from a lab

Of course the official policy was the exact opposite; namely to flatten the curve to lower the load on healthcare.

I doubt it. I firmly believe that one of the reasons that we've never had a serious investigation into the origins of Covid is that the trail would lead back to people and agencies in the US, which would be highly embarrassing.

Just because it's hard to police something, doesn't mean we legalize it. Murder is hard to solve, in some cases. Lab leaks cause way more harm than several murders. Electric chair for mass murder is a proper sentence

I can’t directly assert anything specific about the corona GOF lab leak(which seems to be the only hypothesis supported by any evidence) but I did unknowingly participate in an interesting and tragic anecdote in (December?) of that year.

I had been residing in the Dominican Republic at that time, and my father was doing poorly so I flew home to Alaska. When I got on the plane it was filled entirely with what appeared to be ethnic Chinese, with only a sparse few Dominicans on the flight.

During the flight I became curious and asked a fellow passenger in my row what the event was. He said that the people on the plane were on their way to conferences in the USA, and that the Chinese government had provided some kind of incentive to Wuhan businesses to “facilitate growth” by sending representatives to conferences in the USA, resulting in a sudden flood of conference goers.

Travel was evidently part of the incentive, and the man I was talking to was baffled as to why his travel reservations(and that of hundreds if not thousands of others) had routed them through the Dominican Republic. We both supposed that it was just because the flood of visitors must have filled all of the other routes. In retrospect I can imagine other explanations that are a bit more complex, but who knows.

Coincidence? Perhaps. But I can see the potential motivation for an industrial country that knows it is about to be brought to its knees by an epidemic to take measures to be sure that it isn’t singled out and isolated.

Once arriving, I soon became debilitatingly ill with what I assumed was the “Chinese flu”.

Unfortunately I passed Covid on to my father before I fell ill and to the family of my good friend while I was there during my recovery- a time which if it had been influenza I would no longer have been contagious.

By the time I got back to the Dominican Republic, the news of Covid was breaking. Within days of getting home, my father died, and my friend and his elderly mother were both dead within two weeks.

I feel like China made me complicit in the killing of my father and my friend and his mother. For my father, I was with him before i realised I was getting sick, for my friend I was “no longer sick, just tired”.

If we had known about the severity and scope of this in a more timely fashion from China, and if there weren’t planes full of Wuhan residents erupting into the USA (through sussy routes) perhaps at least my friend and his mother might have been spared.

Anyway, Covid really sucks and it makes me livid seeing idiots that think precautions are some kind of government plot to take their freedumns.