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My take matches yours, except I'm not really curious about it anymore. The only risk would be if this virus had been modified to spread easily by aerosol. Widespread AI usage makes this somewhat more likely to happen in the coming years and decades. Some cunt with a serious grudge against society, or simply sociopathic curiosity, could weaponize a deadly virus such as this hantavirus and make it way more contagious. Or some jackasses in a Wuhan-esque lab could be tinkering with GoF with a supposed view to creating vaccines - or simply bio weapons - and humans being humans they'll be lax with security at some point and leak it.
But so far I see no reason to expect that's what's happened this time. I would lean towards the media selling news explanation.
Bird flu has been close to causing a human pandemic for years already. One unlucky mutation is all it will take. Yet the media attention has been small all along. Go figure.
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