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A branch of the flu family tree has died and won't be included in future US vaccines
(www.livescience.com)
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Even then, the levels of global cooperation were, uhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
COVID was a much bigger deal than it would have been if China hadn't tried to play fuck fuck games and pretend that there is no pandemic in Ba Sing Se. Instead, it took doctors getting in trouble with the state and blasting the alarm on social media (before dying of COVID) to raise the alarm that shit was going down. By that point, we were already a couple months into human-human transmission and the genie was already out of the bottle. Imagine if China hadn't played stupid fucking games and immediately said "hey, guys, heads up, we've got something going on here" and collaborated with the international community on it from the get-go. We might have gotten a handle on it like we did with SARS.
I don't think China was up to some shit and was trying to bury the evidence, I just think it was a mix of not wanting to disrupt commerce now (in exchange for disrupting a lot of commerce later, which is sort of the tale of global warming writ small) and not wanting to be 'embarassed' by another epidemic like SARS. I hope whoever was in charge of those decisions realizes what a stupid fucking decision that was, and thinks about just how many people they got killed and commerce they got disrupted (and reputation they destroyed for China).