So, the virus isn't even from China? C'mon, Man!!

[Warpy]

27. It's been known fpr MONTHS that it didn't originate in Wuhan at that market

That was just the first victim, the first cluster of identical cases that brought in the virologists. It's a good thing it was in China, they've been on the alert for a SARS virus for over 10 years. They were ready.

I remember reading medical articles last November about how doctors were puzzled because last year's flu was a mild one, but deaths from it had increased.

This virus has been circulating slowly for a very long time, in other words.

No one really knows where the 1918 flu originated, although many have settled on the Kansas pig farm theory. It is more of an avian virus than a swine virus and seems to have some of the 1872 equine flu genome, as well. Most likely it had been circulating for a while and we still don't know why it suddenly turned deadly. There has been an explosion of knowledge in this field since the 1980s, but we're still in the infancy of it.

We live in a sea of viruses. Most of them are harmless, most infections are knocked down before we know we have them, some are beneficial, and a few mutate into killers. Coronavirus isn't the first and it won't be the last. A convergence of arrogance, stupidity, and magical thinking bungled this one badly and we have no one to blame but the bunglers. We are going to have to do better, the next one might have much higher death and injury rates.