> I know the instant reaction is "people predict things all the time, some are bound to come out right", but this seems so specific that I think it's not just pure chance... we're just not heeding some of the warnings.
Right. I had not seen this paper. But then, I'm just some anonymous coward who writes a lot about anonymity and privacy.
But if I were, say, an epidemiologist specializing in viral diseases, I would likely have remembered this paper, as soon as I heard about the Wuhan outbreak.
So what stopped that paper's authors from raising an alarm? And what about all the experts who had read it?
And about TFA, given that it doesn't cite that paper, and so explore how it got ignored, it's hard to take it seriously.
Right. I had not seen this paper. But then, I'm just some anonymous coward who writes a lot about anonymity and privacy.
But if I were, say, an epidemiologist specializing in viral diseases, I would likely have remembered this paper, as soon as I heard about the Wuhan outbreak.
So what stopped that paper's authors from raising an alarm? And what about all the experts who had read it?
And about TFA, given that it doesn't cite that paper, and so explore how it got ignored, it's hard to take it seriously.