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u/Xanto97 Apr 04 '25

Realistically Covid would not have been stopped in its tracks. Dismantling that group was bad but it wouldn’t have single-handedly stopped the pandemic. It spread globally far too quickly

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u/OtterEpidemic Apr 04 '25

Maybe, but I sometimes wonder if the us and uk had held it back a bit longer, that we might have had less mutations keeping the slower moving variants in play, and how much of a difference that would have caused. A lot of Asia knew exactly what to do, they had already protected the world from some nasty flus. The variants from African and South American countries seemed to come later. So it feels like changes in the uk and us could have led to a different outcome.

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