In Mom’s offense, every parent there did the same thing for their kid including the one with the upset.
You shouldn’t be a “good” loser, but you also shouldn’t be a bad loser.
Based on Dahobbs first response and link/article to my post it seems to indicate that what Zeihan said and what I posted was incorrect. It does not appear that the actual flight activity supports what Zeihan said and I posted.
If there is other firm data backing up the claim I am happy to have it, but I don’t want my post to be a source of misinformation.
Peter Zeihan has a short input on this. He doesn't say whether Lab or non-Lab....but the most interesting point is at the end of his video where he states the following which I believe is correct.
His summarized statement: Regardless of how/why the viral pathogen started, the Chinese knew that in Wuhan they had an issue and they canceled all domestic flights in and out of Wuhan. HOWEVER, they did not cancel international flights out of Wuhan. So knowing they had a viral pathogen outbreak they acted to limit the spread inside of China and by intentional omission/inaction acted to have it spread outside of China.
Maybe his facts are incorrect about the flights/dates, but whether I believe his analysis on issues he is usually fairly factual.
https://zeihan.com/covid-what-really-happened-in-wuhan/
Zeihan had a report on China which is an interesting comparison. Per below China's census said 1.41Billion people but people believe that is 130 million too high. Lot's of reasons but Zeihan had said a driver was that regions/areas got funding and paid based on population, so creating fake excess kids/people drove funding. Zeihan's other point was that based on the reasoning/timing for the over counting that this 130M people all fall within the younger (baby to early adult) demographic, which is the most important for both future population growth and having jobs and driving the economy.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-2020-census-inflates-population-figures-downplays-demographic-challenge-by-yi-fuxian-2021-08
So we know Russia will lie about everything to make themselves look better. And if they had reasons to encourage regions/people to inflate births/population then we know that they likely did so. And, the "age" of this paper population would likely be 0-30 range.
So we don't know for sure, but if someone in Russia could falsify something in order to get paid for it by the state, well that is almost expected.