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Is HN unable to entertain opposing views or hypothetical scenarios without resorting to downvoting?


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What you're proposing seems possible, but without any sort of evidence it's hard to see it as anything other than FUD.

That being said, you're absolutely right that the virus has generated all this data. What's suspect is whether someone created the virus with the intention just to collect that data.


Perhaps not necessarily created for this purpose, but assuming it leaked, and information about the lethality and transmissibility was known in models, it doesn't seem implausible that the approach of CCP didn't change as the events unfolded.

I didn't mean to spread FUD, I stated from the beginning that it was just a hypothetical scenario, and we should be making hypothetical scenarios to see how events unfold over time, if we can't have these discussions, then are we doing anything but regurgitating information?


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