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Bird flu in Canada may have mutated to become more transmissible to humans

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107 points amichail | 6 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:11 UTC | HN request time: 1.483s | source | bottom
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xyst ◴[21 Nov 24 00:19 UTC] No.42199654[source]▶
Reports like this remind me of very early COVID days. And USA just elected a POTUS that did a shit job of getting us through that same pandemic. With the cabinet that he has (rfk jr, oz…), let’s just hope these are truly fringe cases and doesn’t lead to an outbreak
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OCASMv2 ◴[21 Nov 24 07:04 UTC] No.42201850[source]▶
What would have a democrat president done different during the first year of the pandemic?
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th0ma5 ◴[21 Nov 24 07:54 UTC] No.42202079[source]▶
The premise here is that there would've been one. It is vaguely possible that since a Democrat wouldn't have defunded the US presence in the region, that it could've been contained. Not plausible really, but possible. That scenario would not have been (and was not) possible with the decisions that Republicans took in the lead up to the pandemic.
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1. tourmalinetaco ◴[21 Nov 24 12:36 UTC] No.42203715[source]▶
Then the premise is lackluster. If the Chinese government couldn’t contain the US-paid coronavirus, then how could (or more accurately, why would) the US if they were in the region?
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2. infinite8s ◴[21 Nov 24 16:09 UTC] No.42205733[source]▶
Do tell - what is the US-paid coronavirus?
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3. tourmalinetaco ◴[22 Nov 24 01:57 UTC] No.42210496[source]▶
Up until and just before lockdowns started the US was funding a lab in Wuhan, the WIV, which specializes in bat coronaviruses and has had a long history of failure to meet safety standards. We only stopped funding them in July 2020, meaning US money funded the very virus that killed ~0.0875% of the world population.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-halts-funding-access-wuhan-...

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4. th0ma5 ◴[22 Nov 24 07:36 UTC] No.42211874{3}[source]▶
I guess this is a causation directionality error in your thinking? We were there because nasty viruses spread near there.
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5. tourmalinetaco ◴[22 Nov 24 13:20 UTC] No.42213613{4}[source]▶
We were there before nasty viruses spread. We stopped funding them in July 2020, meaning we were funding it before lockdowns started and just as China was being affected. You truly need to work on your reading comprehension skills before attempting to suggest anyone has errors in anything.
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6. th0ma5 ◴[23 Nov 24 01:03 UTC] No.42218565{5}[source]▶
I'm sorry which part of that article says that? That funding contributed to the outbreak somehow?