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That isn't what I was asking. I asked, why now. What about this instance in time has prompted this? Also, I was talking about Wikipedia. Please do not move the goalposts on me.

I guess the Socratic method isn't going to work here.

Bluntly put, some folks are full Ministry-of-Truthing away at Wikipedia to help justify their attempts at erasure of the "Wuhan flu," China connection. That's why it is happening now. "See, we don't call it the 'Spanish flu,' so why should we call it ..."

It's terribly skeezy.




You’re reading a lot of malice into “let’s call it what the CDC called it two years before all this”.

The timeline doesn’t work.




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