It wouldn't stay in just China. And samples can be retroactively tested. There may be limitations on testing, but as a general rule, this kind of conspiracy theory would be easily proven or disproven. It's safe to assume it's false.
A conspiracy theory that is more plausible is that the virus was circulating during the World Military Games in China in October 2020, pushing the timeline back by weeks, not months and years.
But, again, I have to consider it a conspiracy theory because so many athletes got sick, and got tested. It would be way to easy for any single one of the 100+ sick people to have taken an antibody test early in the pandemic (I'm sure many have done so, and it came back negative).
As to why the governments of Canada and the USA refuse to look into the possibility and rule it out is interesting though. They have the samples, at least some of them, and they are allowing conspiracy theories to fester. It's kind of the opposite of what they claim to be doing.
I agree. If people lack the emotional intelligence to realise when it is time to stop a conversation ( in real life and on social media), then they are simply being infantile by asking government or tech companies to do it for you. The block/ignore buttons are there for a reason.
Western countries have been going into mass hysteria over this, prompted by their government leaders and media. While the initial panic would have served the purpose of making everyone aware of the risks, this ongoing behavioural psychologist nudge terror is the type of overkill that will result in cultural and mental dysfunction for a generation, if not more. Guess who stands to benefit the most- it isn't people at ground level, that's for sure.
It’s only excellent if you don’t have competition. And they do. Anyone offering a significantly longer-lasting protection would effectively put them out of COVID business.
If there were an easy route to a durable vaccine, I can't imagine that someone wouldn't have tried to take over that entire market instead of settling for a drip here and there. You could charge a lot more (see also: SMA and Hepatitis C treatments) and the value to the brand ("From the people who ended the pandemic...") would be amazing.
You're doing the Lord's work here and I'm here to say I regret I can't upvote you more. For all the permanent talk about Hanlon's Razor in here, it seems to all have gone out the window.
As if there wouldn't be dozens of pharma researchers whistleblowing 'we have the cure but our lab won't sell it'.
An annual vaccine is what mostly works for the flu, and nobody but cranks was talking about labs not really wanting to cure the flu. It's just so damn hard. Now everything is easy? they just decided not to save us?
Yet for some reason, people seem to prefer the Pfizer vaccines. Governments too; I'm not following closely but it looks like governments are dragging their feet authorizing and buying available alternatives such as Novavax (spike protein) and Valneva (de-activated virus). Which is a shame, because it could convince those unsure about mRNA technology to get vaccinated.
If you have a better solution, there are literally billions of dollars up for grabs.
While parts of the pharma industry have definitely done shady things, the real reason we don't have a durable "cure" for many conditions is actually because the underlying biology is absurdly complex.
A few billion isn't going to have any impact on inflation that is worth worrying about if there is real headway made on COVID. It's the trillions that are probably worth worrying about.
