[RC one]

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.

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.

[DugwayDuke]

RC one wrote:
“so then it still originated in China. We aren’t really arguing about when it started, we’re arguing about where it started.”

I’ve never denied that it started in China, my point is that it might have started months prior to Jan 2020.

“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.

The issue isn’t when it started in the US but when it started elsewhere. How much testing, when testing, in China and in Italy?

“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.”

Interesting that one would make a comparison to the dialectic on a conservative website. Truth as defined by who?