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Post by bunnyb on May 11, 2021 7:45:06 GMT -5
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Post by supercim1 on May 14, 2021 9:29:13 GMT -5
Trump is an idiot. He placed the entire Asian American communities under attack by his stupid remarks about China virus, Kungflu... while his family has been in deep connection with the Chinese. Ivanka Trump's daughter sings and speaks Chinese. My family voted for him, but never again.
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Post by vulcanized crawler on May 14, 2021 14:07:53 GMT -5
right. hong kong flu didnt do that, asian flu didnt do that, Spanish Flu. West Nile Virus. Zika. Ebola. All named for places. Before the media's fake outrage, even CNN called it “Chinese Coronavirus.” stop spreading hate
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Post by 3bid on May 14, 2021 15:50:21 GMT -5
Scientists: VT’s Allegation of COVID’s Origins Need Study
By VT Editors - May 14, 2021 Daily Beast: A group of 18 top researchers signed a letter published in the latest issue of the journal Science, calling for a new investigation into where and how the novel coronavirus originated, arguing that a satisfactory inquiry still has not been performed. “Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable,” the letter reads. “Knowing how COVID-19 emerged is critical for informing global strategies to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks.” Robert Redfield, former President Donald Trump’s CDC director, has said— without evidence—that he believes the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. For its part, the Chinese government has engaged in similarly baseless speculation, blaming the U.S. Army for creating the virus. Mainstream researchers have largely come out in favor of the theory that COVID-19 originated in animals and spilled over into humans naturally, although hard evidence of any sort has thus far remained elusive. The new letter makes no assertions or claims one way or the other, only that more research is very necessary. “In this time of unfortunate anti-Asian sentiment in some countries, we note that at the beginning of the pandemic, it was Chinese doctors, scientists, journalists, and citizens who shared with the world crucial information about the spread of the virus—often at great personal cost,” it concludes. “We should show the same determination in promoting a dispassionate science-based discourse on this difficult but important issue.” www.thedailybeast.com/researchers-demand-new-science-based-inquiry-into-covid-19-origins?ref=homeInvestigate the origins of COVID-19Jesse D. Bloom 1,2, Yujia Alina Chan3, Ralph S. Baric4, Pamela J. Bjorkman5, Sarah Cobey6, Benjamin E. Deverman3, David N. Fisman7, Ravindra Gupta8, Akiko Iwasaki9,2, Marc Lipsitch10, Ruslan Medzhitov9,2, Richard A. Neher11, Rasmus Nielsen12, Nick Patterson13, Tim Stearns14, Erik van Nimwegen11, Michael Worobey15, David A. Relman16,17,* 1Basic Sciences and Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
2Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD 20815, USA.
3Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
4Department of Epidemiology and Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
5Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
6Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
7Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.
8Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, Cambridge, UK.
9Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA.
10Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
11Biozentrum, University of Basel and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland.
12Department of Integrative Biology and Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
13Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
14Department of Biology and Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
15Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
16Department of Medicine and Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.17Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
↵* Corresponding author. Email: relman@stanford.edu Science 14 May 2021: Vol. 372, Issue 6543, pp. 694 DOI: 10.1126/science.abj0016 ArticleInfo & MetricseLetters PDFOn 30 December 2019, the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases notified the world about a pneumonia of unknown cause in Wuhan, China (1). Since then, scientists have made remarkable progress in understanding the causative agent, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), its transmission, pathogenesis, and mitigation by vaccines, therapeutics, and non-pharmaceutical interventions. Yet more investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic. Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable. Knowing how COVID-19 emerged is critical for informing global strategies to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks. In May 2020, the World Health Assembly requested that the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general work closely with partners to determine the origins of SARS-CoV-2 (2). In November, the Terms of Reference for a China–WHO joint study were released (3). The information, data, and samples for the study’s first phase were collected and summarized by the Chinese half of the team; the rest of the team built on this analysis. Although there were no findings in clear support of either a natural spillover or a lab accident, the team assessed a zoonotic spillover from an intermediate host as “likely to very likely,” and a laboratory incident as “extremely unlikely” [(4), p. 9]. Furthermore, the two theories were not given balanced consideration. Only 4 of the 313 pages of the report and its annexes addressed the possibility of a laboratory accident (4). Notably, WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus commented that the report’s consideration of evidence supporting a laboratory accident was insufficient and offered to provide additional resources to fully evaluate the possibility (5). As scientists with relevant expertise, we agree with the WHO director-general (5), the United States and 13 other countries (6), and the European Union (7) that greater clarity about the origins of this pandemic is necessary and feasible to achieve. We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data. A proper investigation should be transparent, objective, data-driven, inclusive of broad expertise, subject to independent oversight, and responsibly managed to minimize the impact of conflicts of interest. Public health agencies and research laboratories alike need to open their records to the public. Investigators should document the veracity and provenance of data from which analyses are conducted and conclusions drawn, so that analyses are reproducible by independent experts. Full report herewww.veteranstoday.com/2021/05/14/scientists-vts-allegation-of-covids-origins-need-study/
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Post by bunnyb on May 17, 2021 7:11:34 GMT -5
Michael Cottrel messages on CMKX payment :
dinarrecaps.com/our-blog/markz-and-michael-cottrell-friday-morning-chat-big-cmkx-news-5-14-2021
MORE distraction.
None of it is ever real.
It does not make me see the man behind the curtain any less.
Ill believe it when I can buy ammo with it.
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