Coronavirus emerged in Italy earlier than thought, Italian study shows

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ROME (Reuters) - The new coronavirus was circulating in Italy since September 2019, a study by the National Cancer Institute (INT) of the Italian city of Milan shows, signaling that COVID-19 might have spread beyond China earlier than previously thought.

[Auntie Mame]

Yes. Agitprop. With China pulling the strings. Well said.

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The Covid-19 / Wuhan virus origins is an interesting issue. However I don’t understand why people so often choose the “guilty until proven innocent” route on controversies where there is little to no substantive, verifiable information backing up a point of view.

I just take in the various scenarios as possibilities. I try hard to withhold judgement until all information is in or until I need to pass judgment. I rarely need to pass judgement on what I know little to nothing about.

Choosing to “believe” something unsubstantiated (in this case by a number of reliable scientific experts) puts me on a path before I need to be on any path and it makes me at risk of being wrong for the stupidest of reasons: a failure to actually reason.

One elephant in the room on the deliberate release theories is that: why would a state actor start a pandemic is its own country rather than starting it in an enemy state? Plus starting a pandemic is pretty high risk form of attack because the more bodies a virus spreads through, the greater the risk of a mutation coming back to bite a terrorist nation in the butt.