• Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    It’s a known virus, so seems like a nothingburger to me (except a handful of people dying, that’s of course horrible).

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      There are plenty of known viruses that we don’t worry about simply because we’ve been lucky enough to keep them contained in very localized areas. But an epidemiologist could rattle off a whole series of viruses that they would say, “if this ever gets out and blows up, we are fucked.”