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Originally Posted by Damien
Well, yeah. Probably why it's not a massive story yet. But still interesting.
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I guarantee you in a few years time (if this is actually what happened) that it will be presented as the truth, and that no other scenarios were anything but a conspiracy theory, and that it was believed at the time.
Along with ridicule for governments insisting people stay at home for a virus or wear a bit of cloth over their mouth to stop it.
If you look back, then doctors used to use leeches to bleed patients to try and get the bad blood out of them. Then they died which was presumably blamed on the illness not that the attempt to fix it made it worse. Naturally this is ridiculed now as it never stood a chance but the benefit of hindsight and modern medicine knows better; the same will apply here.
Of course, there's the valid excuse we were dealing with a new virus but in actual fact what we had was an evolution of the original SARS which could still be as deadly but in actual fact was 1. more transmissible 2. milder in a lot of infections, which helped it spread more.
But it's very 1984 to bend the narrative retrospectively, with the benefit of hindsight.