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There are two schools of thought about the current world crisis. One is it 'just happened' and blaming anyone is 'scapegoating'. The other is it is rooted to a significant extent in power grabbing, corruption and collaboration.

These are not mutually exclusive.
In many countries a bomb is ticking, consisting of disease, economic breakdown, political abuse, reactive resentment the accumulated effects of magic thinking.
One can almost sense Russia and China hope they can hold together while everything falls apart so they can pick up the pieces, that Western politicians may grow so desperate they will sup with the devil.
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The deliberate lab animal passage technique cannot be ruled out.

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If so the question is when, not if, then next pandemic accidentally happens
I don't believe the Chinese ever believed in the wildlife market theory. They only went through the motions of closing them. The labs on the othr hand went into info lockdown.
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Reading this article from an old friend of mine brought home the fact that the 3rd world poor, and to a certain extent the 1st world deplorables, are the pollution the clean, whether East Asian or European, are trying to get rid of.

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When you lockdown a 3rd World city you kill people. If you don't you kill them too. The problem is all the teeming poor dreaming of a cell phone, hungering for a life like their South Korean soap opera heroes.
In its heyday globalization allowed these teeming poor to work as low end labor in the middle east, the shipping industry, as domestics anywhere. You name it, we scrub it. Now they're just public health hazards.
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"No conclusions can be drawn about the states that sheltered quickly, because their death rates ran the full gamut ... This wide variation means that other variables—like population density or subway use—were more important."

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The lockdown, like many medicines, contains one or more active ingredients. And these may differ in efficacy by patient community. Imitating merely the outward aspects of a lockdown is a form of cargo cultism, if used without understanding.
Alas public policy is often about theater and symbolism. Airport security theater and perhaps lockdown theater. Something caused by the lockdown may be the active ingredient and the challenge is to focus on those and not succumb to imitating mere forms.
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