The "Find someone to blame" mindset. Yeah. I'd been reading reports on potential pandemics years ago, and they concluded we'd get more and more zoonotic spillover events over time as variou… (View Post)

3. There is a rather odd comparison between the COVID-19 pandemic and the H7N9 flu epidemics in China The H7N9 viruses circulate in birds many of which are farmed and come into very frequent and clos… (View Post)

And that Senator Burr report (that is behind the Vanity Fair article) seems to be coming apart already. I had a read of it, and one key figure (Figure 2) that "proves" the origin of SARS-Co… (View Post)

One thing that makes me raise my eyebrows at each of the "LABLEAK!" revelations is the way that so many things that were "dispositive" or "smoking guns" turned out not t… (View Post)

Was it Arthur C Clarke who said something along the lines that everyone vastly overestimates the change that will happen in five years and vastly underestimates that which happens in fifty years? (View Post)