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all the trump hate aside, where did it originate and will someone pay?
Diseases occur naturally, new diseases occur naturally. We know the first cases were in Wuhan China. There are a number of theories on how "patient 0" became infected. (Bat to human transfer, lab grown, pig to human, other dead animal to human) But patient 0 is not even known, early COVID spread extremely fast and a source cannot be pinpointed. Knowing the exact source could help with prevention of future new diseases (shutting down wet markets or closing labs). But with the speed of the spread, death rate, and chaos it brought, it will likely never be known.
"Will someone pay." Without knowing an exact source we don't know if a human is at fault or if there was just the perfect storm of natural events. mRNA vaccines are a new technology that was fast tracked thanks to COVID. As a society we will benefit from its ability to develop new vaccines faster. Many nations/regions were forced to reevaluate their disaster relief plans because of COVID. If a future event occurs the lessons learned from COVID should help mitigate.
that sounds like nobody made mistakes on purpose. i doubt that.
Lots of mistakes were made by Trump and his administration.
If the "mistakes" were made on purpose, they, by definition, weren't mistakes.