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paulca:

--- Quote from: cdev on May 05, 2020, 06:15:10 pm ---Could it have started in the UK?

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That's it though.  Does it matter?  Does it matter if it originated in my Ma's back yard?  Does it even matter if it was someone's fault?  Will that change anything?  Will that make it any better?
thinkfat:
Over here we're pretty sure the virus was not already in circulation in Germany. As soon as the PCR test was available, it was was deployed through the influenza monitoring network. People with flu-like symptoms were also tested for Sars2. It never showed up.
maginnovision:

--- Quote from: paulca on May 05, 2020, 06:54:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: cdev on May 05, 2020, 06:15:10 pm ---Could it have started in the UK?

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That's it though.  Does it matter?  Does it matter if it originated in my Ma's back yard?  Does it even matter if it was someone's fault?  Will that change anything?  Will that make it any better?

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Of course it does, don't be ridiculous with your anti-science crap. Do you ever have a project fail and say who cares why or who did what? I hope not! If you don't know what happened or why you have 0 chance of preventing it next time or fixing the cause.
paulca:

--- Quote from: maginnovision on May 05, 2020, 07:19:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: paulca on May 05, 2020, 06:54:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: cdev on May 05, 2020, 06:15:10 pm ---Could it have started in the UK?

--- End quote ---

That's it though.  Does it matter?  Does it matter if it originated in my Ma's back yard?  Does it even matter if it was someone's fault?  Will that change anything?  Will that make it any better?

--- End quote ---

Of course it does, don't be ridiculous with your anti-science crap. Do you ever have a project fail and say who cares why or who did what? I hope not! If you don't know what happened or why you have 0 chance of preventing it next time or fixing the cause.

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I should have added.  "Right now."  You are totally correct for when the consensus comes together and "history" gets written.

I simple meant will knowing the precious details of who did what, why and when and putting blame will, right now, help anything.  Will it stop people dying?  Will it stop a "second wave"? 

Please do NOT accuse me of anti-science shit.  All I see here are people spitting outliers.  I'm probably guilty too.  This is expected, it's the peer-review vacuum.  Science takes time, but people want answers NOW!  So there is a vacuum of "complete" science and only individual preliminary experiments being published to help other scientists do better ones.

It will be much like war.  History will be written afterwards by the victors.
Syntax Error:
@DrG thanks for the links. The New York Times article is very informative. The functions of the RNA encoded proteins are reminiscent of a malware rootkit!

@cdev One suggestion, locally we experienced a 'pre-virus', where the coronavirus was not producing dangerous viral loads. Although highly contageous, the necessary mutation or critical infection mass was yet to come. Or it was something else that went extinct in January. WE JUST DON'T KNOW!

@paulca WE JUST DON'T KNOW!

@thinkfat Germany got a handle on the virus from day zero. Today the UK death toll exeeded Spain, Italy and France, placing Britain second to the USA.

@eevblog Siri's real name is Aussie Karen (true/false)?


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