[valarauko]

>I have been saying this for many years, and have been condescended to a lot (by friends, even) for saying it.

What exactly have you been saying?

[_nalply]

He maintains that he has been laughed off for his wild conspiracy theories.

[valarauko]

I'm unclear what the specific claim that he's been making for years exactly is - that coronaviruses have a morbidity profile similar to COVID, from the GP? Or that we can't believe long term dynamics for disease models because the parameters go to extremes?

[guscost]

Paraphrasing: “The academics who claim that we narrowly avoided a SARS/etc holocaust, have a fatal conflict of interest, and are completely full of shit.”

[valarauko]

I'm confused - this sounds like an entirely different claim than your original comment. Could you elaborate?