So China has discovered time travel?
A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
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Re: A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's unfortunate to see on this platform is amount of armchair virology experts who reject scientific process.
Again, it’s a very reasonable theory that the virus was lab-made. Stop taking other people’s reasonable conjecture in the worst faith, it is anti-intellectual. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
Again, it's a theory that has so far no basis in science - it's speculations, mostly by people who have no virology background. They maybe even PhD in other biology fields, but having them present their opinions, with no actual data to back it as facts, is as valid as database experts applying their intuition to reason about how to build ML models.
Meanwhile, viruses jumping spices is extremely well document behavior, and COVID like viruses are known to exists in other mammals. Actual data, and Occam's razor point to lab-made virus being invalid theory. Can experts pursue it? Sure, but until they have actual data, presenting it to the general public is click bait fear mongering.
And you also conveniently ignore that OP also had issues with vaccines, which effectiveness have as much backing by science as any theory could possibly have.
Re: A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
#53Is it a best practice nowadays to use word "coronavirus" for all the viruses with the particular molecular structure pattern instead of word "flu"?
Re: A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
#54Interesting. Ice age ended 10k years back.
Re: A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
#55So - how did this virus spread through the population? 20 kyrs ago people didn't live in cities but in small bands of a few dozen people. It's easy to see how an epidemic might spread through a village but how would it move between isolated groups?
And how did they ever survive, without masks, lockdowns and vaccines?
Re: A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
#56Is it a best practice nowadays to use word "coronavirus" for all the viruses with the particular molecular structure pattern instead of word "flu"?
Well, it's not influenza...
Re: A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
#57So - how did this virus spread through the population? 20 kyrs ago people didn't live in cities but in small bands of a few dozen people. It's easy to see how an epidemic might spread through a village but how would it move between isolated groups?
And how did they ever survive, without masks, lockdowns and vaccines?
With a lot of them dying?
Re: A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
#58Is it a best practice nowadays to use word "coronavirus" for all the viruses with the particular molecular structure pattern instead of word "flu"?
It's best practice to use "coronavirus" for coronaviruses, and "flu" for influenza.
While they can cause similar symptoms, they are very different diseases, caused by viruses that have no particular genetic link.
Re: A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
#59I'd love to never hear about another coronavirus again.
We went too far prescribing a certain agenda in the last year, and it's time to reflect on that.
In my opinion studies and articles like this are doing more to fuel the fear porn than they are at teaching anything substantial.
Re: A coronavirus epidemic hit 20k years ago, new study finds
#60“It should make us worry,” said David Enard, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona who led the study, which was published on Thursday in the journal Current Biology. “What is going on right now might be going on for generations and generations.” Should it though? Seems like we've survived this many times as a species, and now have the technology to combat it! I'm more optimistic with this information…
> Seems like we've survived this many times as a species I'm reasonably sure the species will survive climate change. Some nation states, civilizations and cultures' odds look more iffy. I think your bar for worry may be a bit higher than mine.
Yeah, it's like surviving falling from an airplane. You technically survive, but life will be extremely different.