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From: RonO <rokimoto557@gmail.com>
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Subject: Covid pandemic came from a lab leak?
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:35:09 -0600
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https://www.science.org/content/article/house-panel-concludes-covid-19-pandemic-came-lab-leak

A partisan report (Republicans) concludes that the Covid 19 pandemic was 
caused by a lab leak.  This conclusion likely is not true, mainly 
because the Wuhan lab was not working with corona virus closely related 
to Covid-19.  The sequence would not have been available to recombine 
the virus that has parts most closely related to virus that has 
subsequently been isolated from bats, but it does have sequences from 
other sources.  It is some type of recombinant virus, but the mixing 
likely occurred in some coinfected animals.

QUOTE:
The World Health Organization “caved” to the Chinese Communist Party and 
allowed it to conceal the severity of the pandemic.

Masking and vaccine mandates, school closures, and lockdowns were of 
questionable value, and U.S. public health officials put forth 
conflicting, opaque messaging on those issues and more.

Operation Warp Speed, launched by then-President Donald Trump to develop 
COVID-19 vaccines in record time, was a success and a model for future 
pandemics. But the report also criticized the U.S. Food and Drug 
Administration for pressuring its senior scientists to accelerate full 
approval of one of the vaccines.
END QUOTE:

There was a lot of denial about the severity of the pandemic.  The 
Chinese responded as everyone else should have, and contained the 
infection in China.  China's main problem was that everyone else did not 
do the right thing and China kept getting reinfected resulting in their 
current Covid issue that seems to be about the same as everyone else at 
this time.

It looks like the report doesn't contain much about Trump's denial and 
lies about the covid pandemic, and the lack of a national policy to deal 
with the pandemic.  Masking, school closures, and lockdowns were of 
questionable value in most cases because there wasn't a national policy, 
and they were haphazardly implemented.  It didn't matter what your state 
implemented if a neighboring state didn't do it so the infected just 
kept increasing in both states.

They note that the vaccine was a success, but they don't mention Trumps 
stupid denial and lies about the pandemic that interfered with the 
implementation of things like masking and school closures, and even 
resulted in the antivaccination issues that resulted in thousands of 
unnecessary deaths.  At one time the unvaccinated were dying of covid at 
10 times the rate of the vaccinated, and the unvaccinated were likely 
the cause of many of the infections that the vaccinated suffered.  There 
has never been a highly protective corona virus vaccine created.  Corona 
virus evade our immune system pretty effectively.  It is one of the 
viruses associated with the common cold, and it just keeps infecting 
people over and over.  We do not seem to mount an effective immune 
response against the virus.  What the vaccine did was only decrease your 
chance of infection it attenuated the symptoms if you did get infected, 
so you were less likely to die of the disease.  Trump screwed that all 
up, and the unvaccinated kept the virus at a high concentration in the 
environment, so that everyone was more likely to get infected.

Masking was not effectively sold to the population.  The greatest 
benefit of masking was that it decreased the amount of airborne virus in 
the environment.  The homemade cloth masks and paper surgical masks were 
nearly worthless for keeping you from being infected, but they did 
decrease the virus in the environment if the infected wore them.  The 
sick and the asymptomatic shedders that did not wear a mask were most 
likely to be those that infected others.  It was still true of KN95 
masks that became popular.  They were most effective in reducing virus 
in the environment.  If you were in an enclosed room with someone 
shedding virus for more than 40 minutes, you would still be likely 
infected by that person even if you were wearing a KN95 mask.  Those 
masks did not have a tight seal.

They needed to make it clear that the infected should wear a mask, and 
since you had asymptomatic shedders, everyone needed to wear a mask.

Ron Okimoto