If you go up the thread, you'll see people with a lot of knowledge/expertise disagree on the strength of the evidence of what it was. (Pulling this part out of that thread because some want to debate something else: do pandemics end? I don't think that is controversial: they do).

— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) September 27, 2021

I’ve heard a lot of dipshit mooks claiming pandemics don’t end. But of course they do, especially when they are something like coronavirus. The “pandemics don’t end” people are just doomsters and lockdown lifers.