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Old 02-18-2020, 01:35 PM   #20619 (permalink)
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Not even an economically damaging number of civilian deaths in a country that's challenging the status quo of American global dominance?
when you weigh in the risk/benefit analysis, no.

A short term moderate hit to the US economy will hurt Trump more than a short term severe hit to the Chinese economy would help him.

You could suppose they just aren't weighing those options properly, but yea.
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I don't think the US did it though, it's just more probable than those other two theories.
I don't know much about it but I don't see anything particularly implausible about it spreading from bats or some other animal like most of these pandemic scares do.
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