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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 1, 2024 19:35:30 GMT -5
This guy went behind the Chinese government’s back to get the Covid sequence published. This probably put us partially ahead of the curve. Unfortunately, he is now being punished for circumventing government channels. This should make him Person of the Year for the risks he took for the world. You know damn well the Chinese government would have sat on this for as long as they could, and just the 6 or so months that it would take to get this published (if ever) would make a tremendous difference. I estimate it would probably take as long for the rest of the world to remake the wheel had he not done this. That makes a tremendous difference. www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-scientist-published-first-sequence-071229718.html |
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Post by haapai on May 1, 2024 20:30:43 GMT -5
The guy's a hero.
If he hadn't done what he did, our responses would have been much slower and much more xenophobic. Can you imagine the fury if we had absolutely no idea what this virus sequence was and we were utterly reliant on the Chinese and their ridiculous case definition (symptomatic cases only, and it must include all these symptoms) to get a clue what was coming at us? Even with the sequence, our own sentinel surveillance systems failed miserably but an awful lot of that was our fault. Without that sequence, the demonization of China would have been so much worse and having someone else to blame (more) would not have helped our response.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 1, 2024 20:48:56 GMT -5
The guy's a hero.
If he hadn't done what he did, our responses would have been much slower and much more xenophobic. Can you imagine the fury if we had absolutely no idea what this virus sequence was and we were utterly reliant on the Chinese and their ridiculous case definition (symptomatic cases only, and it must include all these symptoms) to get a clue what was coming at us? Even with the sequence, our own sentinel surveillance systems failed miserably but an awful lot of that was our fault. Without that sequence, the demonization of China would have been so much worse and having someone else to blame (more) would not have helped our response.
I never even thought about the public perception about China, and how different it would be. Good catch! |
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