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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Your article is a little out of date.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 You're the one with out of date information.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
Yes, and their report was buried. It didn't say that they changed their minds.

From further in the article: "But the once controversial theory has been gaining ground among some intelligence agencies - and the BND is the latest to entertain the theory. In January, the US CIA said the coronavirus was "more likely" to have leaked from a lab than to have come from animals."

Clearly world leaders were afraid of anti-Chinese sentiment, didn't want to be seen "siding" with Trump, or just didn't want to piss China off.