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by 75j 3495 days ago
> Those individuals did not believe what they wrote.

How do you know that?

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I don't. I would be willing to wager at 19:1 odds that a jury of my peers would agree with me if presented with the facts of how the story emerged on the internet that patient zero was knowingly publishing false information. I'm willing to make that bet because there are a very small number of ways such a story can get started, and I have beliefs about their relative likelihood.