All Things Coronavirus (Part 2)

[TBoneTX 45,312]

Dying breed.  Jonathan Turley is another, but he's right a heckuva lot more often than Maher is.

[Dashinka 24,513]

16 minutes ago, TBoneTX said:

Dying breed.  Jonathan Turley is another, but he's right a heckuva lot more often than Maher is.

There are others, Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi come to mind.

[TBoneTX 45,312]

We can count them all on the fingers of one knuckle.

[Dashinka 24,513]

Apparently these emails did not make the news.

 

Exclusive: The Babylon Bee Has Acquired More Leaked Dr. Fauci Emails

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/exclusive-the-babylon-bee-has-acquired-more-leaked-dr-fauci-emails

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

Speaking of Fraudci emails:

 

https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-said-masks-not-really-effective-keeping-out-virus-email-reveals-1596703 

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/critics-call-to-fire-dr-fauci-after-emails-show-him-saying-masks-dont-work-against-covid/ar-AAKEh2X

 

 

[Dashinka 24,513]

Is the tide coming in?  A very long read but worth it.

 

The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins

To some people, it seemed natural to ask whether the virus causing the global pandemic had somehow leaked from one of the WIV’s labs—a possibility Shi has strenuously denied.

 

On February 19, 2020, The Lancet, among the most respected and influential medical journals in the world, published a statement that roundly rejected the lab-leak hypothesis, effectively casting it as a xenophobic cousin to climate change denialism and anti-vaxxism. Signed by 27 scientists, the statement expressed “solidarity with all scientists and health professionals in China” and asserted: “We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.”

 

 

The Lancet statement effectively ended the debate over COVID-19’s origins before it began. To Gilles Demaneuf, following along from the sidelines, it was as if it had been “nailed to the church doors,” establishing the natural origin theory as orthodoxy. “Everyone had to follow it. Everyone was intimidated. That set the tone.”

 

The statement struck Demaneuf as “totally nonscientific.” To him, it seemed to contain no evidence or information. And so he decided to begin his own inquiry in a “proper” way, with no idea of what he would find.
 

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins

 

[Nature Boy 2.0 8,370]

sorry have not watched the news lately. Isn't the lab theory some crazy racist Trump lie supported by his deplorables?

[Boiler 45,532]

2 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

sorry have not watched the news lately. Isn't the lab theory some crazy racist Trump lie supported by his deplorables?

Correct all good Progressives know it is lies because Trump said so.

 

 

[Dashinka 24,513]

1 hour ago, Boiler said:

Correct all good Progressives know it is lies because Trump said so.

 

 

That was one thing VF made sure of, they certainly added the obligatory Leftist Trump bashing in their piece.  I ignored those, and when you do, it really goes a bit further than the N. Wade piece as to the bureaucratic intrigue.  The N. Wade article was moe science based IMO.

[laylalex 7,285]

I am currently in Albuquerque -- we went to a wedding last night with about 100 people. Everyone was either vaccinated or wore a mask (and most were fully vaccinated), unless they were kids. This is a state that has had high uptake on the vaccine, and cases are very low, so I felt comfortable for the first time in over a year not wearing a mask in public in a decent sized group. Guys, I cried I was so happy. Also it was a wedding and I always cry at weddings.  There was such a feeling of hope and excitement -- for the bride and groom, but also for us all. We are not at the end of COVID quite obviously, but this felt very much like life again. Relief. It felt like relief, too.

 

Also the wedding was at a winery and we are both hungover.  

[TBoneTX 45,312]

1 hour ago, laylalex said:

I cried I was so happy. Also it was a wedding and I always cry at weddings.

So how do we know whether you were happy or just crying at a wedding, huh LL ma'am?

1 hour ago, laylalex said:

the wedding was at a winery

Ah -- this explains it.  

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

So many people missed out on so much of life this past year.  I truly feel sad for them.  

[Dashinka 24,513]

Hmm, more water over the dam?

 

‘Damning’ science shows COVID-19 likely engineered in lab: experts

 

“Damning” science strongly suggests that COVID-19 is a man-made monster, optimized in a lab for maximum infectivity before hitting the outside to catastrophic effect, two experts said Sunday.

 

Writing in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Steven Quay and Richard Muller pointed to two key pieces of evidence to support the claim, which has increasingly gained steam after long being derided as little more than speculation.

 

The first relates to the nature of gain-of-function research, in which microbiologists tweak a virus’ genome to alter its properties, such as making it more transmissible or more lethal.

 

Of the 36 possible genome pairings that can produce two arginine amino acids in a row — which results in boosting a virus’ lethality — the one most commonly used in gain-of-function research is CGG-CGG, or double CGG, wrote Quay and Muller.

 

https://nypost.com/2021/06/06/damning-science-shows-covid-19-likely-engineered-in-lab/

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

Can't be.  I was informed here on VJ, just last night, that this is a wacko conspiracy theory.  

[LIBrty4all 3,749]

I also recall "experts" here on VJ saying last year that there was NO WAY hospitals were over-counting covid cases & deaths, and that hospitals were NOT being monetized to count cases as covid.

 

https://www.dailywire.com/news/ca-county-cuts-covid-death-toll-by-25-after-reevaluation-deaths-clearly-not-caused-by-virus