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Originally Posted by Fuzz
The only way I could see it happening, and I read an article on it recently, is that the virus looks to have mutated around Dec/Jan to a more deadly strain, which is what we have now. So could a low impact version have been around months before?
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If you read the twitter thread above, basically says the test they use has a 0.6% false positive rate, and speculates that it would not be a surprising result to see 3x the false positive rate with people who had recently contracted a closely related Corona virus.
Rather than a direct parent of this strain causing the false positives, it's probably a not to distant cousin that was and remains not nearly as dangerous.
I think this goes back to people needed to insert themselves into a narrative that seems to be controlling their lives but feels distant.