They do both "nothing to see here" while trying their worst best to contain it.

My money is on them shipping infected people to the front lines while saying they are just in quarantine.

A few weeks later "oh noes they all ded frum virus" meanwhile they just spread it to all their own troops while claiming it's just a flu and everyone is fine.

I've never seen a more accurate depiction of my typical experience in a professional environment. "Nobody wants to speak up or handle things correctly because someone senior with direct responsibility for your employment shouted down any dissent because they want to meet a metric" is apparently a timeless experience.

The show was very well done, but it implies this was history. That mass of reactor is still burning underground, and Russian bombs have damaged the sarcophagus covering it. The remaining reactors are still in use.

I first watched it on an airplane. Swapping between the seat screen and my phone. Great show. Can't wait to watch it again someday

Then I watched it on a big(?) ((I guess 60inch?) TV at home. Great show. Let's make sure I'm in the right mental space before I rewatch the show...)

That's like saying MRSA is no big deal because millions of people die every year from bacterial infections.

They're studying some outlier versions of an illness with a much worse outcome.

Wow! That boss sure had A LOT of sway over the USSR to enforce reactor rods with graphite tips! And to have intentionall held back computer technology in the reactor!

i do

wasnt that for ebola in africa?

And NY morgues had to use refrigerated trailers for over a year.

If something can be fucked up. The state will find a way. The bigger the state, the bigger the fuck up.

I think there's just not enough information to say with confidence one way or the other. Biden commissioned a report that was inconclusive, in part because of non-cooperation from the Chinese government. From Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assessment_on_COVID-19_Origins

Updated Assessment on COVID-19 Origins is a report of the United States Intelligence Community regarding the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which was commissioned on May 26, 2021, by President Joe Biden and submitted on August 24.[1]

Biden initially ordered his intelligence services to "redouble efforts" to investigate the virus's origin.[2] The report, which was released on August 27, noted that the Intelligence Community did not reach a unanimous conclusion on the origin of the virus, with four agencies determining that the index case was likely a result of natural exposure, with another agency considering it as the result of a laboratory incident, although the community overall agreed that it was not linked to biological warfare. The community concluded that a conclusive investigation would require cooperation with the Chinese government.[1][3] Analysts considered that the investigation proved incapable of reaching a definitive conclusion on the origins of COVID-19, and the report was criticized by Chinese officials.

Are we still doing Wuhan Lab Leak Theory? Wasn't that debunked ages ago

There was an attempt at debunking the lab leak theory early on with a nature article saying we do not believe any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible. Then there was a rejected DARPA research proposal detailing exactly how the laboratory-based scenario is possible.

Lab origin has not been proven but there is no natural zoonotic path to Wuhan. Lab encouraged gain of function with in species reproduction seems most likely.

Half the US intelligence agencies support the lab origin theory.

This has nothing to do with lab leak theory. This is what China actually did. They think in terms of comparison with other countries and they didn't want to be the only country with covid, regardless of the origin.

China continues to withhold data from the WHO regarding the outbreak in Wuhan. That in itself is not proof, but now, seven years into the pandemic, I personally find it suspicious. The other indicators supporting the lab-origin theory are well known. Aside from the incompetence of the Trump I administration, it seems that some intelligence agencies still subscribe to this theory.