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    Red Cross warns 'Covid variants are running rampant across Asia’ as India’s crisis spills over into neighbor Nepal

    The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies has warned Nepal’s health system is at risk of being overrun by rising Covid cases, as India’s outbreak spills across into neighboring nations around South Asia.
    The comments were made on Wednesday, as data showed that Nepal is now reporting 57 times the number of Covid cases it recorded a month ago and that more than 40% of tests are returning a positive result.

    This, paired with a slow vaccine rollout, is leaving an increasing number of people at risk of the virus in a country that does not have the resources to fight the pandemic.

    “We need to act now and we need to act fast to have any hope of containing this human catastrophe,” the Asia Pacific director of the Red Cross, Alexander Matheou warned.

    This virus has no respect for borders and these variants are running rampant across Asia.

    The humanitarian group urged officials to take swift action, seeing the situation in India as “a horrifying preview of Nepal’s future,” which could see cremations rise to record levels as variants increase the spread of the virus

    Nepal is not the only neighbor of India that is at risk of being overwhelmed by coronavirus. Bangladesh and Pakistan have seen spikes in infections, forcing border restrictions and domestic measures to protect against the ‘Indian variant.’

    Wednesday once again saw India report a record number of Covid infections, with the Asian nation responsible for around half of the new daily infections globally and a quarter of deaths from the virus in the last week.

    https://www.rt.com/news/522957-red-c...s-nepal-india/

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      The Incredible Vanishing Flu

      Seasonal influenza, also known as “the flu,” visits America every year, similar to tornados, thunderstorms, heat waves, and snowstorms. As tracked by the CDC, over the past decade symptomatic flu cases ranged from 9 to 45 million cases per year in the US. Hospitalizations varied from 140 to 810 thousand, and deaths from 12 to 61 thousand, depending on the particular year, strain of influenza, and effectiveness of the vaccine.This year, “flu activity is unusually low at this time” according to CDC surveillance. Since late September 2020, they recorded only about 2000 cases, a minute fraction of the tens of millions of cases in past years.Hospitalizations this flu season are minimal with only 224 confirmed influenza hospitalizations from September 2020 to mid-April 202, nowhere near the hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations in past seasons.Deaths are harder to measure since the CDC conveniently changed how deaths are characterized this past year. Instead of pneumonia, influenza, and COVID being in separate categories, now it’s called PIC, lumping the three entities together. For children, the CDC doesn’t use PIC as COVID hospitalization or death in children is exceedingly rare, unless the child is immunocompromised. In each of the past three years, pediatric deaths ranged from 144 to 198 per year. This current flu season has seen only one single child die from the flu.

      So what happened to the flu? From millions of cases to a few thousand. It would like having a winter with no snow, which despite predictions of NY Times climate experts, hasn’t come close to happening. Perhaps the flu cases are mysteriously lost, like Hillary Clinton’s emails, Hunter Biden’s laptop, or John Durham’s sealed indictments. A virologist was perplexed and honest. According to the New York Times,

      “We don’t really have a clue,” said Richard Webby, a virologist at the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. “We’re in uncharted territory. We haven’t had an influenza season this low, I think as long as we’ve been measuring it. So what the potential implications are is a bit unclear.”
      Other than an occasional news story like the one above, the media has been rather uninterested in this fluke of science, instead wringing their paws over an election audit in Arizona or Frank Luntz and Kevin McCarthy shacking up. As big media is too busy looking for racism hiding behind every Republican, let’s explore why the flu might have mysteriously vanished. One theory is that public health measures for COVID eradicated the flu. Did we just now discover hygiene? Was last year the first time that Americans washed their hands and used hand sanitizer? We have always done these things. And if they worked to stop the flu, why didn’t they stop COVID? We didn’t need Dr Fauci scolding us into isolation when sick. Those ill with the flu stayed home until better. We naturally distanced when sick. Again, if these measures, far more draconian this year, stopped the flu, why didn’t they also stop COVID?

      What if influenza cases were incorrectly labeled as COVID? After all, everything now is called PIC. Perhaps the influenza numbers are much higher and COVID numbers much lower based on misclassification.The CDC wouldn’t play numbers games like that would they? Sure they would. The CDC changed its cycle threshold for “vaccine breakthrough cases,” those cases occurring post vaccination, to 28, far below that for normal cases of 40 or higher, to reduce COVID cases numbers after the vaccine. Imagine if they had done that last year. COVID cases numbers would resemble that of a bad flu season.The CDC was happy to let high case numbers work against President Trump last year when he was campaigning for reelection but now want to lower case numbers to favor their heralded vaccines. This is the same CDC that allowed a national teachers union to help draft school opening guidance, just as Congress lets lobbyists write legislation. Can the CDC be trusted? The CDC director said their data, “suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus” yet vaccinated people are still distanced and masked. Is the CDC about public health or just another political arm of the ruling class, like the FBI and DOJ? Are the vanishing flu cases just a numbers game, the CDC playing three-card Monte, hiding flu cases while America bets her economy on this con game, the American people coming up short and the Democrats always winning? Was it every really about the virus?

      https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...shing_flu.html

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        Originally posted by Docker View Post
        The Incredible Vanishing Flu

        Seasonal influenza, also known as “the flu,” visits America every year, similar to tornados, thunderstorms, heat waves, and snowstorms. As tracked by the CDC, over the past decade symptomatic flu cases ranged from 9 to 45 million cases per year in the US. Hospitalizations varied from 140 to 810 thousand, and deaths from 12 to 61 thousand, depending on the particular year, strain of influenza, and effectiveness of the vaccine.This year, “flu activity is unusually low at this time” according to CDC surveillance. Since late September 2020, they recorded only about 2000 cases, a minute fraction of the tens of millions of cases in past years.Hospitalizations this flu season are minimal with only 224 confirmed influenza hospitalizations from September 2020 to mid-April 202, nowhere near the hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations in past seasons.Deaths are harder to measure since the CDC conveniently changed how deaths are characterized this past year. Instead of pneumonia, influenza, and COVID being in separate categories, now it’s called PIC, lumping the three entities together. For children, the CDC doesn’t use PIC as COVID hospitalization or death in children is exceedingly rare, unless the child is immunocompromised. In each of the past three years, pediatric deaths ranged from 144 to 198 per year. This current flu season has seen only one single child die from the flu.

        So what happened to the flu? From millions of cases to a few thousand. It would like having a winter with no snow, which despite predictions of NY Times climate experts, hasn’t come close to happening. Perhaps the flu cases are mysteriously lost, like Hillary Clinton’s emails, Hunter Biden’s laptop, or John Durham’s sealed indictments. A virologist was perplexed and honest. According to the New York Times,



        Other than an occasional news story like the one above, the media has been rather uninterested in this fluke of science, instead wringing their paws over an election audit in Arizona or Frank Luntz and Kevin McCarthy shacking up. As big media is too busy looking for racism hiding behind every Republican, let’s explore why the flu might have mysteriously vanished. One theory is that public health measures for COVID eradicated the flu. Did we just now discover hygiene? Was last year the first time that Americans washed their hands and used hand sanitizer? We have always done these things. And if they worked to stop the flu, why didn’t they stop COVID? We didn’t need Dr Fauci scolding us into isolation when sick. Those ill with the flu stayed home until better. We naturally distanced when sick. Again, if these measures, far more draconian this year, stopped the flu, why didn’t they also stop COVID?

        What if influenza cases were incorrectly labeled as COVID? After all, everything now is called PIC. Perhaps the influenza numbers are much higher and COVID numbers much lower based on misclassification.The CDC wouldn’t play numbers games like that would they? Sure they would. The CDC changed its cycle threshold for “vaccine breakthrough cases,” those cases occurring post vaccination, to 28, far below that for normal cases of 40 or higher, to reduce COVID cases numbers after the vaccine. Imagine if they had done that last year. COVID cases numbers would resemble that of a bad flu season.The CDC was happy to let high case numbers work against President Trump last year when he was campaigning for reelection but now want to lower case numbers to favor their heralded vaccines. This is the same CDC that allowed a national teachers union to help draft school opening guidance, just as Congress lets lobbyists write legislation. Can the CDC be trusted? The CDC director said their data, “suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus” yet vaccinated people are still distanced and masked. Is the CDC about public health or just another political arm of the ruling class, like the FBI and DOJ? Are the vanishing flu cases just a numbers game, the CDC playing three-card Monte, hiding flu cases while America bets her economy on this con game, the American people coming up short and the Democrats always winning? Was it every really about the virus?

        https://www.americanthinker.com/arti...shing_flu.html

        Now I am not giving anyone a p[ass on this but the way I look at it if someone thinks they have Covid and they get tested the test results come back negative and it was very possible the person had the flu and it went uncounted.. Everything is geared to the Chinese Coronavirus.. Plus the fact that what I have red in the past that the Coronavirus is just another flu strain although a wee bit more potent.. Or could it be that like good Americans we are all listening to Dr Fauci and washing our hands a god-zillion times a day..

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          https://www.immunaband.com/

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            Report: Chinese Military Discussed Weaponizing Coronavirus Five Years Ago before Outbreak — While Dr. Fauci Was Funding Their Wuhan Facilities

            Back in September 2020, Col. Lawrence Sellin (ret.) reported at The Gateway Pundit that there is unequivocal evidence Chinese military was involved in the creation of the Chinese coronavirus.

            Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who investigated the origin of the COVID-19 virus during the initial outbreak in Wuhan China as a medical researcher in Hong Kong, has now provided unequivocal evidence that the virus was not of natural origin.

            In the article, “Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Suggesting Sophisticated Laboratory Modification Rather Than Natural Evolution and Delineation of Its Probable Synthetic Route,” Dr. Yan and her colleagues have offered a detailed description of how the virus was synthesized in laboratories controlled by China’s military.

            In March 2021, Joe Hoft at The Gateway Pundit reported that there was more evidence that suggests the China coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan likely came from a bioweapon accident.

            In April 2021, Joe Hoft at The Gateway Pundit reported that new evidence suggests that China’s military may have been aware of the COVID-19 virus back in November of 2019.

            Last week news broke in The Australian that Chinese scientists were weaponizing coronavirus for five years before the outbreak last year in Wuhan, China.

            Dr. Tony Fauci was funding the Wuhan testing facilities during this time.

            The Telegraph India reported:

            Chinese scientists allegedly investigated weaponising coronaviruses five years before the Covid-19 pandemic and may have predicted a World War III fought with biological weapons, according to media reports referring to documents obtained by the US State Department.

            According to The Sun newspaper in the UK, quoting reports first released by The Australian, the bombshell documents obtained by the US State Department reportedly show the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) commanders making the sinister prediction.

            US officials allegedly obtained the papers which were written by military scientists and senior Chinese public health officials in 2015 as part of their own investigation into the origins of Covid-19.

            Chinese scientists described SARS coronaviruses of which Covid is one example as presenting a new era of genetic weapons. The PLA papers referenced seem to fantasise that a bioweapon attack could cause the “enemy’s medical system to collapse”.

            It references work by US Air Force colonel Michael J. Ainscough, who predicted World War III may be fought with bioweapons.

            https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...an-facilities/

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            • Re: Coronavirus

              Nolte: Fauci’s Obscenely Stupid, One-Size-Fits-All Mask Standard

              Admitted liar Dr. Anthony Fauci appeared on ABC’s This Week with Devoted Clintonista George Stephanopoulos and basically threatened all Americans with eternal mask mandates over the behavior of some:

              STEPHANOPOULOS: A third possible wave may be making the benefits of the vaccine very, very tangible to people. You’ve had former — you’ve had experts like the former head of the FDA, Scott Gottlieb, say it’s time to start relaxing the in-door mask mandates. Is he right?

              FAUCI: No, I think so. And I think you’re going to probably be seeing that as we go along and as more people get vaccinated. The CDC will be, you know, almost in real time, George, updating their recommendations and their guidelines.

              But, yes, we do need to start being more liberal as we get more people vaccinated. As you get more people vaccinated, the number of cases per day will absolutely go down. We’re averaging about 43,000 a day. We’ve got to get it much, much lower than that. When that gets lower, the risk of any infection indoor or outdoor diminishes dramatically.


              Actually, I should say he “once again” threatened all Americans over the behavior of a few.

              Back in March he made the same one-size-fits-all threat, only this time he used an actual number that must be achieved before mask mandates can be eased, something “considerably less” than 10,000 new cases per day, he said:

              I would like to see as we get the level of virus in the community to a very low level. Well, well below the 60,000 to 70,000 new infections and somewhere, and I’ll just pick a number even though there’s not a good model there yet, but I would say less than 10,000 and maybe even considerably less than that.

              This above March interview on CNNLOL is important because this was Fauci’s reactionary response to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s wise decision to end all coronavirus restrictions in Texas, including forcing Texans to wear masks.

              Afterwards, Fauci was all over the media preaching his certainty Texas would suffer an explosion of China Virus infections and deaths, but as we all know, that didn’t happen. Once again, Fauci was wrong.

              Anyway, let’s talk about this “daily infection number” number Fauci is pulling right out of his ass, the place where the admitted liar seems to get most of his “science.”

              How does it make sense to hold ALL OF AMERICA hostage to some arbitrary number, be it 25,000 or 250,000?

              For the sake of making my point, I’ll go with 10,000 new daily infections, even though The Little Tyrant believes the number should be “considerably lower” than that.

              Where is the science in punishing the entire country, including Alaska and Hawaii, if it turns out only a handful of states are putting us over 10,000 daily infections?

              What if New York is running 9,999 new infections per day and the other 49 states are down to just one case per day or 5,000 per day?

              What if New York, Michigan, New Jersey, and Illinois are running 6500 infections per day and the rest of the country is down to 2500?

              Why should Texas or North Dakota or Wyoming or Ohio be punished with mask mandates because a bunch of Democrat-run states can’t get their act together?

              This makes no sense, and there’s no doubt in my mind Fauci’s obscenely stupid one-size-fits-all approach is deliberate, his way of putting pressure on those of us who are doing things correctly and competently, of punishing all 330 million of us to pressure the incompetents to get their act together.

              What’s more, if New York, New Jersey, Michigan, and Illinois are the problem, you can bet it’s only going to be in their horribly mismanaged Democrat-run cities. So we could literally have a couple of hundred square miles of infection holding the other 3.8 million square miles of America hostage.
              Another problem I have with Fauci’s obscenely stupid goal is how the “daily infection” count is, in reality, a meaningless number. The number of new cases reported daily doesn’t come from some magic fairy who flies over the land totaling up new infections. It comes from testing, which depends on how many people get themselves tested. The “new daily infection” number is meaningless in that regard. How meaningless? Well, how’s this for an idea…

              Let’s stop testing altogether. Then there will be “zero” new daily infections and we can all remove these goddamned masks.

              To the surprise of no one, Stephanopoulos did not press Fauci on any of the above points, even though they are obvious follow up questions. Unfortunately, just like everyone else in the useless and corrupt corporate media, Stephanopoulos has neither the desire nor the moral courage to challenge The Little Tyrant, even though The Little Tyrant is an admitted liar and fraud.

              https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...mask-standard/

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                Rand Paul Rips Into Dr. Fauci About Funding the Wuhan Virology Institute Lab – Arrogant Fauci Hits Back! (VIDEO

                The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing on the efforts to combat COVID-19 on Tuesday.

                Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) ripped into Dr. Fauci on Tuesday about funding the Wuhan lab.
                Since May 2020, The Gateway Pundit has been reporting on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s likely illegal funding of coronavirus projects at the Wuhan Virology Center.

                It is clear that they successfully isolated the coronavirus in the lab and were actively experimenting with species-to-species transmission.
                It’s also important to note that back in 2017 we had solid intelligence about a viral leak in a high-security Chinese virology R&D center that resulted in the SARS virus getting out and killing people.

                In May 2020, TGP reported this: The leader of the US task force overseeing the country’s response to the China coronavirus, Dr. Tony Fauci, was the one who funded the Wuhan bat virus work and kept it going.
                Last month Washington Post columnist Josh Rogan said Fauci needs to provide answers about his involvement with the Wuhan lab.

                “Dr. Fauci and the National Institutes of Health were responsible for using taxpayer dollars for gain of function research, to weaponize viruses to make them more contagious and more deadly.” he said.

                Rand Paul confronted Fauci on Tuesday: “Dr. Fauci, do you still support funding of the NIH funding of the lab in Wuhan?”

                Arrogant Fauci shot back at the Kentucky lawmaker: “Senator Paul, with all due respect, you are entirely and completely incorrect that the NIH has not ever and does not now fund gain of function research in the Wuhan institute.”

                Rand Paul would not back down and really got under Fauci’s skin!



                https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...ts-back-video/

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                • Re: Coronavirus

                  Originally posted by crazy View Post
                  Report: Chinese Military Discussed Weaponizing Coronavirus Five Years Ago before Outbreak — While Dr. Fauci Was Funding Their Wuhan Facilities
                  Why do we always blame someone else.....and think of this do you really believe the Chinese would use it for a military weapon without first having a vaccine for it....and remember the US Military was in the city of Wuhan in October 2019....

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                    Originally posted by Sayheykid View Post
                    Why do we always blame someone else.....and think of this do you really believe the Chinese would use it for a military weapon without first having a vaccine for it....and remember the US Military was in the city of Wuhan in October 2019....
                    Actually I do remember that they had some type of games in Wuhan China.. China also accused the US of planting the virus in Wuhan.. It is a "he said, she said" moment.. You can believe anything you want to today.. As far as China using it as a weapon?? Yeah I do believe they are responsible for it.. They have lied about it.. Did they intentionally release it?? Or was it an accidental release?? Only they know for sure.. And I highly doubt they will ever admit it..

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                    • Re: Coronavirus

                      Originally posted by Sayheykid View Post
                      Why do we always blame someone else.....and think of this do you really believe the Chinese would use it for a military weapon without first having a vaccine for it....and remember the US Military was in the city of Wuhan in October 2019....
                      I don't think there's many people at all who think that China intentionally released the virus... but many... including myself think that they were working to find a way of weaponizing a virus when... somehow... it accidentally escaped from the lab. And in all honesty... I don't think China was the only country doing it... I think some others were too... including the United States.

                      So... do I blame China... you're damn right I do. Just like I would blame the United States if I believed it escaped from their lab.

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                        Originally posted by Docker View Post
                        I don't think there's many people at all who think that China intentionally released the virus... but many... including myself think that they were working to find a way of weaponizing a virus when... somehow... it accidentally escaped from the lab. And in all honesty... I don't think China was the only country doing it... I think some others were too... including the United States.

                        So... do I blame China... you're damn right I do. Just like I would blame the United States if I believed it escaped from their lab.
                        Maybe you shouldered this.....all the evidence points to us the US....imagine if this happen here?

                        "According to the widely accepted current chronology, the Covid-19 epidemic began in Wuhan during late October or early November of 2019. But the World Military Games were also held in Wuhan during that same period, ending in late October, with 300 American military servicemen attending. As I’ve repeatedly emphasized in my articles and comments for more than a year, how would Americans react if 300 Chinese military officers had paid an extended visit to Chicago, and soon afterward a mysterious and deadly epidemic had suddenly erupted in that city?'


                        Also how did American Intelligence know of a. outbreak before if happen.....

                        "Earlier this month, an ABC News story cited four separate government sources to reveal that as far back as late November, a special medical intelligence unit within our Defense Intelligence Agency had produced a report warning that an out-of-control disease epidemic was occurring in the Wuhan area of China, and widely distributed that document throughout the top ranks of our government, warning that steps should be taken to protect US forces based in Asia. After the story aired, a Pentagon spokesman officially denied the existence of that November report, while various other top level government and intelligence officials refused to comment. But a few days later, Israeli television mentioned that in November American intelligence had indeed shared such a report on the Wuhan disease outbreak with its NATO and Israeli allies, thus seeming to independently confirm the complete accuracy of the original ABC News story and its several government sources.'


                        I have posted this before.....and to think we don't have bio-weapons and a bio-weapons program would be very foolish

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                        • Re: Coronavirus

                          Originally posted by Sayheykid View Post
                          Maybe you shouldered this.....all the evidence points to us the US....imagine if this happen here?

                          "According to the widely accepted current chronology, the Covid-19 epidemic began in Wuhan during late October or early November of 2019. But the World Military Games were also held in Wuhan during that same period, ending in late October, with 300 American military servicemen attending. As I’ve repeatedly emphasized in my articles and comments for more than a year, how would Americans react if 300 Chinese military officers had paid an extended visit to Chicago, and soon afterward a mysterious and deadly epidemic had suddenly erupted in that city?'


                          Also how did American Intelligence know of a. outbreak before if happen.....

                          "Earlier this month, an ABC News story cited four separate government sources to reveal that as far back as late November, a special medical intelligence unit within our Defense Intelligence Agency had produced a report warning that an out-of-control disease epidemic was occurring in the Wuhan area of China, and widely distributed that document throughout the top ranks of our government, warning that steps should be taken to protect US forces based in Asia. After the story aired, a Pentagon spokesman officially denied the existence of that November report, while various other top level government and intelligence officials refused to comment. But a few days later, Israeli television mentioned that in November American intelligence had indeed shared such a report on the Wuhan disease outbreak with its NATO and Israeli allies, thus seeming to independently confirm the complete accuracy of the original ABC News story and its several government sources.'


                          I have posted this before.....and to think we don't have bio-weapons and a bio-weapons program would be very foolish
                          There are many countries around the world that have bio weapons.. I cannot see why you believe the US is responsible .. go back to the previous years with the trade indifferences between China and the US .. and even the rest of the world countries.. China was hurting, there economy was going the wrong way.. What a better way then to create a world problem where in the end most of the countries would beg China for goods.. What a better way to use the pandemic to get Trump out of office.. What a better way than to get Biden and his family back into office and go back to the way it was.. China's economy came roaring back thanks to the pandemic.. You think Trumps military would have done something like this?? I have a few bridges for sale.. Cheap but American made..

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                            Originally posted by Sayheykid View Post
                            Maybe you shouldered this.....all the evidence points to us the US....imagine if this happen here?
                            "According to the widely accepted current chronology, the Covid-19 epidemic began in Wuhan during late October or early November of 2019. But the World Military Games were also held in Wuhan during that same period, ending in late October, with 300 American military servicemen attending. As I’ve repeatedly emphasized in my articles and comments for more than a year, how would Americans react if 300 Chinese military officers had paid an extended visit to Chicago, and soon afterward a mysterious and deadly epidemic had suddenly erupted in that city?'
                            Also how did American Intelligence know of a. outbreak before if happen.....
                            "Earlier this month, an ABC News story cited four separate government sources to reveal that as far back as late November, a special medical intelligence unit within our Defense Intelligence Agency had produced a report warning that an out-of-control disease epidemic was occurring in the Wuhan area of China, and widely distributed that document throughout the top ranks of our government, warning that steps should be taken to protect US forces based in Asia. After the story aired, a Pentagon spokesman officially denied the existence of that November report, while various other top level government and intelligence officials refused to comment. But a few days later, Israeli television mentioned that in November American intelligence had indeed shared such a report on the Wuhan disease outbreak with its NATO and Israeli allies, thus seeming to independently confirm the complete accuracy of the original ABC News story and its several government sources.'
                            I have posted this before.....and to think we don't have bio-weapons and a bio-weapons program would be very foolish
                            You can shoulder that all you want but that would definitely be foolish on your part because by no stretch of the imagination can anyone say that all the evidence points to us the US… but as for me… sorry… but I’m not that naïve.

                            As for your circumstantial evidence… what… 300 American military servicemen infected themselves… then went to Wuhan to spread the virus or even better yet… concocted a deadly virus in some military games? Is that what you are trying to say because that sounds ridiculous to me?

                            And for you saying how did American Intelligence know of an outbreak before if happened is also ridiculous if you ask me because who can say just when in the hell the virus escaped or came to be beyond any doubt. It’s all speculation and what one believes so don’t try and pawn this crap that all the evidence points to us the US like it’s a fact.

                            This article supplies just as much speculation about the evidence pointing to China… and IMO… makes a whole hell of a lot more sense…

                            Did COVID-19 Leak from a Wuhan Lab?

                            Circumstantial evidence that it may have is mounting.

                            As evidence, Wade notes that while researchers have identified a very similar RaTG13 virus in horseshoe bats, they have not so far found a likely progenitor of the COVID-19 coronavirus in any wild or domesticated species. Initially, it was suggested that a local Wuhan wet market where wild animals were sold for food may have been the source of the initial outbreak. That was later discounted when further testing found that many of the first cases had no link to that market.

                            Wade argues that circumstantial evidence strongly supports the idea that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. First, the lab has been collecting and doing research on bat coronaviruses for years and, perhaps not so coincidentally, the outbreak begin in Wuhan and nowhere else. Second, he claims that the initial uniformity of the strain of virus at the outset of the pandemic suggests that it was a gain-of-function variant experimentally adapted to be especially good at infecting human cells. Gain-of-function research seeks to improve the ability of a pathogen to cause disease. Wade also puts great evidentiary weight on the fact that the virus supposedly has an unusual furin cleavage site (a specific protein that the virus uses to enter human cells). Wade believes that its presence in the COVID-19 virus suggests lab manipulation.

                            The WHO investigation was pitifully inadequate. On March 4, a group of skeptical researchers issued an open letter questioning the WHO report and calling for an independent "forensic investigation" into the origins of COVID-19. If the Chinese government has nothing to hide concerning the origins of the COVID-19 virus, then it should welcome such an inquiry. If not, then Chinese researchers and officials should expect continued—and increased—skepticism about their assertions that the COVID-19 virus was not introduced to the world via a lab leak.

                            https://reason.com/2021/05/12/did-co...m-a-wuhan-lab/
                            As far as you making it a point to say that you have posted your so called evidence before makes me think that you really do believe that the speculation you provided are statements of fact… well… I hate to inform you…they aren’t.

                            And you saying… “to think we don't have bio-weapons and a bio-weapons program would be very foolish”… well that I agree with which I already stated…

                            Originally posted by Docker View Post
                            I don't think there's many people at all who think that China intentionally released the virus... but many... including myself think that they were working to find a way of weaponizing a virus when... somehow... it accidentally escaped from the lab. And in all honesty... I don't think China was the only country doing it... I think some others were too... including the United States.

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                            • Re: Coronavirus

                              Here we go.. I can see this as leading to a problem in the home front.. My wife will not get the vaccination and I did get one at the VA.. Now when we go to the supermarket I sit in the truck and she goes in and gets what she needs.. With this new info from the CDC I sure hope she doesn't send me into the grocery store while she plays on her computer in the parking lot..

                              Fully vaccinated people can ditch masks indoors, physical distancing: CDC

                              CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky called the updated recommendations 'an exciting and powerful moment'

                              People who are fully vaccinated against coronavirus no longer need to wear masks while indoors or outdoors or physical distance in either large or small gatherings, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced during a White House COVID-19 briefing Thursday.

                              Fully vaccinated individuals are still advised to wear masks while in crowded indoor settings such as while on public transportation and in hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters.

                              "We have all longed for this moment when we can get back to some sense of normalcy," Walensky said. "Based on the continuing downward trajectory of cases, the scientific data on the performance of our vaccines and our understanding of how the virus spreads, that moment has come for those who are fully vaccinated."

                              Immunocompromised individuals should consult a physician before giving up masks, Walensky said, warning that if the country's case counts go back up the guidance could change.

                              "This virus can be unpredictable, so if things get worse there is always a chance we need to make a change to these recommendations," she said.

                              People are also advised to go back to wearing masks and get tested right away if they develop possible COVID-19 symptoms, Walensky said.

                              When pressed whether public criticism pressured the CDC to update the recommendations, Walensky said the agency was following the science.

                              "I want to be clear that we followed the science here. While this may serve as an incentive for some people to get vaccinated, that is not the purpose, our purpose here is as a public health agency to follow the science and to follow where we are with regard to the science and what is safe for individuals to do," she said.

                              https://www.foxnews.com/health/cdc-f...masks-indoors#

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                              • Re: Coronavirus

                                Originally posted by crazy View Post
                                Here we go.. I can see this as leading to a problem in the home front.. My wife will not get the vaccination and I did get one at the VA.. Now when we go to the supermarket I sit in the truck and she goes in and gets what she needs.. With this new info from the CDC I sure hope she doesn't send me into the grocery store while she plays on her computer in the parking lot..
                                Too bad you couldn't scoot over to the Ohio line and enter the $1M covid vaccine lottery...



                                I wonder how many entries the loony leftist liberals will get...

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