RC one wrote: “I guess that 4 year old Italian boy must have been wandering around in a ‘bat infested cave’...”
Come on now, you are well informed enough to know that Northern Italy has a very high population ratio of Chinese working in the garment industry with frequent arriving travel between China and Northern Italy so ‘bat infested caves’ in Northern Italy were not as necessary as you would like us to believe.
RC one wrote: “B.) Pretty much any and every viral syndrome is Covid like and, for most people, Covid is pretty much like any other Viral syndrome,...”
Which is exactly my point. How many covid cases were misdiagnosed as flu prior to our becoming aware of covid in the early part of last year?
RC one wrote: “China is in CYA mode so any “evidence” they produce has to be viewed with a fair amount of skepticism. Admit nothing, deny everything, make counteraccusations. That’s what’s going on with China.”
How does that differ from your attempts to deny any possible early spread of the virus prior to January? You sound just like the Chinese. BTW, if you’d read the report, access to blood samples for further testing is one of the few complaints made by CDC.
so then it still originated in China. We aren't really arguing about when it started, we're arguing about where it started.
. How many covid cases were misdiagnosed as flu prior to our becoming aware of covid in the early part of last year?
how about none? Our ICUs weren't full of people in ARDS prior to the "official" start date. And we swab people for the flu that look like flu. They would have been tested.
How does that differ from your attempts to deny any possible early spread of the virus prior to January? You
this is how dialectic works- two opposing views fighting one another and, in the end, the truth is revealed. I think the truth is pretty evident here.