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by scottlegrand2 2321 days ago
There's an interview with an African grad student in Wuhan who says that strange cases of pneumonia were happening all the way back in September of 2019. And this interview was the first I'd ever heard of that.

This could have been a non-starter had not the Chinese Communist party covered this up as long as they did. That's what needs to change. There might be a genetic predilection for Asians to be susceptible to coronaviruses, but if we attack these things head-on as they emerge, they won't amount to much.

If we pretend they're not happening, one day we're going to get a pandemic. That day might be today unfortunately but only time will tell.

https://youtu.be/8uIVf_o9aXM

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It's been reported for decades that small-time livestock farmers in rural China live too closely to their animals, namely pigs, which are genetically similar to humans.

So that's the source of annual flu.

So search on that as a start.

Completely different viruses, but right before the coronavirus outbreak, there was a plague outbreak in Beijing and the CCP responded similarly ineptly to it. The article below is from November 2019.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/china-bubonic-plague-ou...