Most major Chinese cities have coronavirus labs ('member the SARS epidemic?) and epidemics usually become first noticeable in major cities.

If you had an area prone to viruses in bats, wouldn't it be easier to build a research lab near there, rather than far away? If that's what ypu are researching?

You'll notice McMurdo is in Antarctica

Excuse to stay indoors and lose my sleep wake cycle? Sure. Last one was spent on PoE. Now 2 is out.. Timely..

Yeah, RFK was already sworn in, so we are ready /s

Covid never ended; my boyfriend just tested positive last week. And it won't end since it's a mutating virus. But it's nowhere near as deadly as initial variants, and the curve flattened a long time ago. I wouldn't still call it a pandemic.

Same. And to the best of my knowledge I'm still a COVID virgin (unless I was asymptomatic).

I stopped masking in public very briefly when they were saying it was okay after getting double vaxxed. Waited the proper amount of time for immunity to kick in and then some, and I immediately got COVID 🥲

Fool me once, etc. I’m never doing that shit again, and it’s a little disturbing to me how little people care about others’ health or their own. You’d think naked self interest would get people masking if empathy doesn’t, but apparently not.