One of the first things I remember being reported when people started wearing the masks and practiced social distancing was that illness from colds and flu's in general were lower then usual. The mask helps stop the spread of germs. The only real problem with the masks was a messaging problem. This was proven by the fact that so many misunderstood and thought the masks were meant to stop them from getting sick. Rather then to stop people from getting other sick.
As far as I understand it there is no one official position. There was at first but I think that was more just a projection that the government had traced it and identified the source and was now working on it. Later on (maybe a year or so later) even Dr. Fauci started to change the position a bit to indicate they weren't positive by saying these was no solid evidence to support it coming from the lab. It might not sound different but it is because it's not saying it's conclusive that it came from the wet market. As far as I've understood it more recently is there are some in the government who still think it came from the wet market and some who think it came from the lab. It's really not important at this point because werever it came from it's out and still a threat. If it did come from the lab it was an accident due to bad handling. Determining it came from the lab at this point changes nothing and all that continue talking about it does is distract people.
How it spreads and how some people get it and some don't is what people have understood for years. The only people who don't understand (even though they've heard the same information) are those who feelthe government and doctors are lying to you because they have some hidden agenda. One of the first things they picked up on (within weeks of it spreading) is/was that the people most likely to get it were older people and/or people who had pre-existing conditions. The fact that some people didn't have symptoms was the main reason for the masks, because it was possible for people to not know they had it but be able to spread it to others. Also that just because you were young wasn't a guarentee that you would have mild symptoms. I don't think they ever discovered why exactly some people get no symptoms or mild symptoms but the most likely, logical reason is that some people have weaker immune systems then others. 75% of one's immune system is in their gut and comes from the types of food you eat. Eat healthy, enjoy a strong immune system. Eat crap and have a weak immune system.
The reasons why Moderna and defense contractors make billions is because they're corporations and that's what corporations do. Moderna made billions because they got paid by the government to make their vaccine, same with Pfizer and J&J. Every corporation that made a reasonably effective vacccine got large amounts of mony from the government so the vaccines would get out quickly and so people wouldn't have to worry about paying for them. As far as defense contractors they've been making billions since the days of Eisenhower when he warned about the military industrial complex in his farewell speech. That's why every since those days the US government has been spending more on producing weapons and war equipment then all the other countries combined. That's why the US is the most powerful military in the world. Every year the government spends almost one trillion dollars on the military. They've been doing it for a very long time now. All Ukraine or The Gaza Strip or Taiwan is, are excuses to keep spending lots of money with defense contractors. If there was no war they would find some other excuse. It will keep happening too because many of our Senators are share holders of the defense contractors so they are very incentivize to make sure we keep spending so much on our military. This is also something that most people have understood for a very long time. The fact that you seem shocked by this makes me wonder what sort of a sheltered life you've been living?
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