Also if China wasn't messing around with Pangolins. I heard that's what started it. (Although that's kinda what they get for believing that Pangolin scales can heal/cure you of something, they can't) But Trump def didn't help.
I don't think there's been any concrete evidence that the coronavirus did come from a animal market in China. The WHO (World Health Organization), the CDC, and other organizations are pressuring China to come clean about how the outbreak originally started in China, but Chinese officials haven't exactly been forthcoming with information. There's also been suspicions of the virus possibly originating from a biomedical laboratory, but there's been no concrete proof of that either.
There's no scientific evidence that the coronavirus was manufactured in a lab. Nevermind how insanely difficult such a thing would be. I know we like to imagine that we have super powerful technology but the fact is we don't have the capacity to engineer a virus from whole cloth. We only just now started learning how to edit genes in larger animals. Virus are, yes smaller and more simplistic compared to editing genes of larger animals but we do this using bacteria and viruses that have been specially prepared to change things. Editing a virus to do widespread damage is a different task entirely.
Saying we can do one because we can do the other is a massive jump in logic. It's like my parents thinking I'm a computer wizard and know how to build my computer from scratch just because I know what a gigabyte is and know how to use a USB cord to move MP3s from a computer onto a device.
It's like thinking a person knows how to build their own car from the ground up because they can change a spark plug, install new headlights or pump their own gas.
Just because you have basic knowledge of a thing doesn't make you an expert, it just makes you
LOOK like an expert to the people who have no idea how this stuff works.
One more thing.
We don't know exactly where this bug came from, it's entirely possible China doesn't know themselves but they don't want to look stupid in front of the world so they're going "Yes. Yes. We're aware of the start of the outbreak, we'll tell you more at our discretion".
It's like holding a folder that says "TOP SECRET" and saying that you know what's inside but you have to study it more first and then leaving quickly before everyone finds out you were bluffing with an empty envelope.
One more thing.
I'm still not worried I don't think I've caught it yet, if anything I'm a carrier that's normally how that goes. But if I have caught it, it was mild and dad thinks he may have gotten it a few times? Not badly though. Then again that might have just been the common cold.
That is fallacious, specious reasoning. You cannot judge this kind of thing like that. I haven't felt sick either, I spent months on the street in Texas with barely any protection whatsoever by that kind of logic I might have it and be simply a carrier but also no one I have spent time around has showed symptoms of the virus either. Should I surmise then they must be immune? Or do I have to wonder if perhaps maybe I simply haven't encountered it yet? Occam's Razor says the latter.
Also this virus has different symptoms than your average cold.
Including but not limited to-
- Shortness of breath or Trouble breathing
- Loss of taste and/or loss of smell
Don't make leaps of logic using logical fallacies. The most likely scenario is that you simply have not encountered the virus yet and you should not relax your protection.
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