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Originally Posted by Ooloo
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What the hell are you talking about? Sars-cov-2 *IS* the current pandemic virus. It causes the disease known as Covid-19. You follow? You're thinking of Sars-cov-1, colloquially known as just "SARS" which was a briefly-lived virus in 2004. Technically it does still exist, but almost nobody gets it. "SARS" was much more deadly than Covid-19, but much less contagious. So they kind of have an inverted relationship.
The NIH admitted they were funding gain of function research in wuhan. *They* admitted it. How much more will it take for you to accept it's not some wacky right wing conspiracy theory? Gain of function is the process of manipulating a natural virus to make it more transmissible and more dangerous to humans, in an effort to develop more effective defenses against such viruses.
Their excuse is essentially "well, err, we didn't realize at the time that's what it was. And fauci didn't lie exactly, cause he didn't know at the time either! derp!". Like, are these people professionals? They apparently don't even *KNOW* what they're funding??
Keep blaming everything on republicans though, and all the mental gymnastics that entails. Rand Paul was totally right about this, get over it.
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I did slip up with the 1 and 2 admittedly but that doesn't change that we have had other instances of Coronavirus in the past causing death to millions in the 1800s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889%E...31890_pandemic
Others have been infected in the past if not months before the most recent Coronavirus was first reported.
I assuredly can blame Republicans on there absolutely horrible means of handling this Pandemic. Our nation was one of the worst to handle this pandemic, if not the worst.
There were so many times the previous Republican administration suppressed, hid or mismanaged it. Hell, Jared Kushner's team did some of worst heinous things:
"Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner's team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. "The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy."
And you conveniently left out the part the NIH reported:
NIH chief Francis Collins insists none of the bat viruses studied under this grant could “possibly have caused the COVID-19 pandemic.”
So yes I very much am blaming the party in charge of actually trying to do the worst job possible to manage the pandemic that killed over 600K Americans.
And not just the previous administration many Republicans who are anti-mask and more still are to blame.