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agnosticmantis
on May 7, 2021
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The origin of Covid: Did people or nature open Pan...
It is incorrect to consider only one year. If the probability of an event is 1% each year, you expect the event to happen every 100 years or so. In fact with probability 1 it will happen at some point.
FabHK
on May 8, 2021
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Yes... and the last pandemic (Spanish Flu) was about 100 years ago. That's why I chose that number.
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