[bwilli123]

"The Coronavirus might have been spreading quietly in humans for years, or even decades, without causing a detectable outbreak – Dr Francis Collins, Director, The National Institutes of Health." https://johnmenadue.com/who-had-covid-first/

[Aeolun]

I dunno. That would be coincidental. Given that we’ve never had a random outbreak of a new disease similar to this in the past 100 years.

[henearkr]

Nopah virus, ebola, these are two examples where we have been very lucky, and the only reason they did not spread too much internationally was that they originated in regions with very strong political regimes.

[mytailorisrich]

Luckily, it's not too difficult to contain Ebola considering the symptoms and how transmission occurs.

[larsga]

SARS was a random outbreak of a very similar disease that was just barely stopped. It was really close to becoming a pandemic.