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>>david9+(OP)
History books can tell you facts that happened, but they can never truly tell you how it feels.

I feel we're riding a knife's edge and there's a hurricane brewing in the gulf of absurdity.

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Incidentally, I feel like this is why it is so hard to actually learn from history. You can read about the 1918 'Spanish' Flu, but you think "we're smarter now". etc.

>>csours+kk
> You can read about the 1918 'Spanish' Flu, but you think "we're smarter now". etc.

Not sure what the comparison with COVID is supposed to be. Spanish flu was not created in a lab. There was no vaccine for the Spanish flu. The only real similarity is social distancing, quarantines, and masks -- we did that back then too.

>>rsanek+4V
> Spanish flu was not created in a lab.

Neither was covid-19: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715

>>cgh+W61
Your article is a little out of date. The general consensus of spy agencies is that it was definitely leaked from the lab. Created in a lab? Maybe.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7vypq31z7o.amp

>>AuryGl+UG1
The article you linked says that BND thought the lab leak was likely in 2020. You're the one with out of date information.

>>Hasnep+BQ1
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd9qjjj4zy5o

>>jpfrom+Nx2
> The review offered on Saturday is based on "low confidence" which means the intelligence supporting it is deficient, inconclusive or contradictory. There is no consensus on the cause of the Covid pandemic.

The article literally says there is no consensus.