@canidmajor Yeah, semantics on the question. But here’s the rub…it is the second question about this concept…that people don’t think this is real. So either there is some drastic number of people out there that really don’t believe it is real, or the ones questioning are really into believing there are people out there. Otherwise, why even ask the question?
As for the belief it is man-made, I have said that from the start. And I believe our government knew about this virus before it hit the scene. Not from any article I read or from any show I watched….directly. It is from the reaction when this first started. I have lived through times where several major viruses have hit the world in my time….SARS, H1N1, Ebola, MERS, even the regular flu which kills tens of thousands every year in this country. And in all those cases, the reactions have been fairly constant. Warnings are put out, it is addressed on the evening news and in various public service announcements and there are discussions about what people can do to avoid getting it or where to get vaccinated or what the symptoms are. But the reaction to this virus was significantly different. It first hit Wuhan late in November. Before it had started popping up in other countries, there were already discussions about declaring a pandemic. When we had a grand total of 102 cases in this country, President Trump instituted the travel ban from China. There were even discussions at that time that this disease was not going to interfere with our presidential election. I remember Nancy Pelosi making a statement about that. So we have a virus that was killing people in Wuhan, but really no worse than SARS or ebola did, and suddenly we are battening down the hatches and talking about what its impact will be 11 months later. Meanwhile, its dreadfully contagious, but it doesn’t actually spread in China beyond Wuhan. ??? Magic? Or known threat that is treated as the killer it is known to be? Their (China’s) reaction was way different from previous diseases as well. Everything about the reaction to this has told me that this virus was known about, known what the contagion rate would be, what the symptoms would be, etc. The only thing we don’t have is a vaccine. I’m not sure China doesn’t have a vaccine, but they aren’t sharing with the rest of the world.