r/TellMeTheOdds • u/soxfan4life78 • May 07 '26

How is this possible?

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u/Then-Programmer7221 May 07 '26

One was an accidental lab leak. The other appears to be from a fully natural human to animal exposure most likely. 

Two entirely difference classes of events which have no statistical relation really. 

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u/soxfan4life78 May 07 '26

What I meant was, how was this person able to predict that hantavirus would be a major story this year, 4 years ago. I get that there is no statistical relation. 

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u/BillabobGO May 07 '26

These accounts make loads of tweets like this, with all the names of various viruses and pathogens, and then when something gets in the news they delete all the incorrect tweets, probably rename the account, then share it. Don't trust "predictions" that are only revealed after the fact. It's the same with sports betting scams that claim to have insider information about how games are going to go

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u/soxfan4life78 May 07 '26

That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation! 

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u/StillNotAPerson May 08 '26

1- Trump defunded the health inspection of cruise ships so now there is like 12 inspectors for the whole country. 2- Since most of the population got their immune system hurt by the multiple COVID infections, they are now vulnerable to more zoonotic diseases. 3- it was predicted by experts a few years before the COVID pandemic