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"Don’t be ridiculous, the fact that it was already customary to wear masks when you get sick in East Asian countries is completely irrelevant, now bring me my calipers, I have real work to do. "

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Expect “coronavirus was made in a Chinese lab” to become “coronavirus was designed in a Chinese lab to target white people” soon enough

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Didn’t a research paper recently find the virus was circulating in Italy and France before the Wuhan outbreak?

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I recall there being something about the virus being present in Europe earlier than previously thought, but I don’t know about pre-Wuhan. I’m probably misremembering.

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Did a lookup, this article says the Italian tests go back as far as September 2019. Wikipedia says the virus was first identified in December.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-anitbodies-covid-study-b1723243.html

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Here’s a good thread of all the possible evidence of covid in europe before China’s first confirmed case

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The former already implies the latter

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By sheer coincidence all of the white people with covid resistant genes live in New Zealand

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Also Norway, Finland, and Slovakia, to name a few others.

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Love to do race science to hate on China. When do we get out the calipers?

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All that’s missing is Charles Murray and we’ve got a bestseller on our hands

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