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Thread #167504   Message #4136652
Posted By: Steve Shaw
14-Feb-22 - 08:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: New news on the pandemic COVID-19
Subject: RE: BS: New news on the pandemic COVID-19
Well I have no idea what you mean by that. SARS lasted for less than three years in the early 21st century, infecting just a few thousand people only, and there have been no cases for seventeen years or more. It is effectively extinct in the human population (unless you have a different definition of extinct). Like smallpox, samples of the virus still exist in research laboratories. It doesn't mean that it's impossible for a variant to leap from wild animals. As yet, that hasn't happened and it's been quite a long time. I think that's probably enough to rest my case. Cheers.