old salt wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 12:55 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Tue May 18, 2021 12:11 pm
Salty, if you didn't mean what you wrote, just say so. No one is arguing against the desirability of knowing the actual answer, if that's possible, it's just that coincidence is not equivalent to
any level of certainty. And the "if that's possible" is very likely to disappoint.
Blah blah Trump blah blah.
I mean exactly what I said. We need to know with a greater degree of certainty the origin of the virus & how it jumped to humans.
All the verbal gymnastics & nit picking is just an attempt to blow smoke to deflect & divert from coming to grips with the question.
Who was patient zero & how & where did he/she contract it ?
Are you confident that it was not related to the lab in Wuhan ?
If so, don't you find it a remarkable coincidence that was the location of the outbreak ?
Instead of addressing that question, you attempt to discredit anyone who asks the obvious.
That's your takeaway when I treat your argument respectfully and thoughtfully, acknowledging its merits, and explaining my own perspective and logic?
ok, you deserve the eye roll now.
We'd all love to know with "greater certainty" (since there's zero certainty now) exactly what the transmission was, heck it'd be cool to know who patient one was. But that's virtually an impossibility, certainly an impossibility for all possible zoonotic spreads.
But ok, you've again revealed that you're in this weird Trumpist, right wing conspiracy world. Ok, got it.