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>>codech+(OP)
4chan figured this out as early as March 2020: google "site:4plebs.org shi zhengli"

>>anon32+h9
Nearly made the same comment myself. It feels vindicating to watch all this unfold. How many times now has 4chan been right about the virus, and the media wrong?

- 4chan saw the pandemic coming in January 2020, and predicted it would be big

- 4chan knew it wasn't 'just another flu' in March 2020, when the media was downplaying it

- 4chan figured out the virus is transmitted via areosol, not just particulate

- 4chan worked out that Vitamin D can help (even Fauci admitted he takes it)

- Wuhan Lab hypothesis

That's just off the top of my head. Sure, 4chan got a lot wrong: but better to get all the (possible) facts, and sift through them. That's science. What are you going to do otherwise? Trust Fauci?

>>genera+nb
The media showed enormous deference to the Trump administration that insisted it was not going to be big, that is was just another flu, that it wasn't transmitted via aerosol, and that it would be gone soon.

4chan isn't know for enormous deference to anyone, so the fact that "they" (collectivizing 4chan always irriates me, but whatever) got things right given the head-in-sand public attitude (*) of the administration isn't really surprising.

(*) Trump of course privately told Woodward that it was really bad.

>>PaulDa+Dc
Showed deference? The standard practice was to go against what he said.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/31/8016865...

Months after this came out, the media was proclaiming that the virus was no worse than the flu.

>>genera+Fd
That report is completely deferential to the administration. It reports on their decision, cites administration officials exclusively, contains no counterpoints whatsoever.

Retrospectively, most analyses that I've read have said that travel bans had essentially no effect, something most epidemiologists at the time were saying too. Was that covered? No. The administration said that a ban on travel from China was a good idea (it likely wasn't a bad one), and that was the end of the story, more or less.

Months after that announcement, Trump was proclaiming that the virus was no worse than the flu.

March 24th, 2020:

"We lose thousands and thousands of people a year to the flu. We don't turn the country off," Trump said from the Rose Garden. "And actually, this year we're having a bad flu season. But we lose thousands of people a year to the flu. We never turn the country off. We lose much more than that to automobile accidents… I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter."