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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 1508 days ago
Wuhan had its first cases on Dec-17th , on Jan-14th the sequence was out and shipped across the globe.

If you think that delay is bad wait and see if a pandemic develops in Yemen or in Sub-Saharan Africa...those countries would need 8-9 months to notice an outbreak not to mention sequencing.

We have an example with HIV. It made the leap somewhere in Africa between 1945 and 1952. The world noticed it when it arrived to developed countries in the 1980s...

Hatred against China is cheap talk, when it's time to discuss the quality of life haircut that a complete decoupling would cause all of a sudden each and every person (be it a professor, a dude at the bar or anybody else) is only looking for an off-ramp to get off the conversation and blame Davos/Schwab/the illuminati. This is true in NYC as well as Shanghai

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Are you really suggesting that the first case of COVID was actually documented medically? Or that Dec 17th was the first case that was documented? It seems highly unlikely anyone actually ID'd patient zero.
Yes. China with a level 4 biolab should be compared to Yemen or Sub-Saharan Africa. LOL.
There are two BSL4 labs in Sub-Saharan Africa. One in Gabon, one in South Africa.
Then he should name specific countries, not just the region.