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[–]Insider 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

The China variant was very likely planted. It didn't match the variant in North America and there's numerous lines of evidence, when added together, looks like it was pre-planned.

However in my view this is largely a concoction of the media and the strains themselves have never been especially worrisome to begin with.

The high r0 of the virus is what made it dangerous, not the mortality rate. A lot of the severe cases have also been pretty bad, severe pneumonia damaging your lungs, myocarditis if severe enough could lead to heart failure, cytokine storms, organ failure, and ppl just inexplicably dropping dead.

[–]Herpa_Derpa_Island 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm aware of these things. Personally, I worked at a nursing home for two years all throughout COVID -- after seeing uncountable numbers of residents in their 80s and 90s laughing off their COVID infections, literally mocking us for following protocols despite practically all of them having preexisting conditions that were rather severe, my model has little choice but to assume a psychogenic / voodoo element as the most likely explanation for the atypical severity and deaths among the young and healthy. Not to mention, of course, that I actually watched the motherfuckers casting the spell