Lies Corrected While You Wait
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
America funded virus gain-of-function research in the Wuhan lab? No, we did no such thing, certainly not.
Oh, THAT gain-of-function research? Oh yeah, we funded that. Our bad.
I’m borrowing Sarah E. Hoyt’s new hashtag, seems appropriate for this situation: #headsonpikes
Joe Doakes
“No, it wasn’t gain of function research. It was research about increasing function. Different thing all together)”
October 22nd, 2021 at 8:03 am
If you read the letter, you’ll see it was carefully crafted by lawyers to provide plausible deniability.
They really didn’t admit to anything.
October 22nd, 2021 at 8:03 am
If you read the letter, you’ll see it was carefully crafted by lawyers to provide plausible deniability.
They really didn’t admit to anything.
October 22nd, 2021 at 8:19 am
Just means we need more pikes.
October 22nd, 2021 at 9:36 am
My reading of the letter is that, although gain-of-function research was performed on bat virii that are unrelated to SARS-COV2. The evidence for this is that SARS-COV2 could not have been produced by nature from the virii they were performing gain of function research upon.
I find this paragraph intentionally deceiving:
While it might appear that the similarity of RaTG13 and BANAL-52 bat coronaviruses to SARS-CoV-2 is close because it overlaps 96-97%, experts agree that even these viruses are far too divergent to have been the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2. For comparison, today’s human genome is 96% similar to our closest ancestor, the chimanzee. Humans and chimpanzees are thought to have diverged approximately 6 millions years ago.
The evolution by reproduction and selection for viruses and primates is so rediacally different from primates that it makes no sense to compare them; the language used to describe the process is different (“reproduction” versus “replication”). Viruses aren’t even alive by the common definition of “life.”
The proper camparison would be between viruses under laboratory research conditions. The writer of the letter did not use the appropriate analogy, and he must have known his analogy was poor. That is highly suspicious.
October 22nd, 2021 at 10:33 am
Yes, the research we funded was clearly gain of function research, but since we didn’t technically fund the research on the specific virus, we aren’t guilty for the release of the COVID-19 virus. It’s not as if we could anticipated that the gain of function techniques could be used on other virii that could be more deadly or anything.
There, fixed it for them. Throw them ALL in the slammer for a good long time, because any sane researcher understands that you can apply a principle in multiple places.
October 22nd, 2021 at 11:09 am
Barely mentioned are the EIGHT failures of eco health to adhere to safety protocols.
The chance that the virus jumped from a bat to a human collecting samples in nature is not mentioned at all.
October 22nd, 2021 at 3:59 pm
JD, I’d be more convinced if y’all had ever used a pike at all.
October 23rd, 2021 at 10:00 am
Interesting article regarding the dubious science behind the idea that ivermectin is effective against Covid..
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/ivermectin-research-problems/620473/
October 23rd, 2021 at 10:57 am
The Atlantic is owned by The Emerson Collective, the foundation run by Steve Jobs widow, the far-left radical Laurene Powell Jobs.
You are not going to find a lot of unbiased journalism at The Atlantic. These days it is hit pieces against presumed Trumpism, string together with articles policing the boundaries of the Overton Window.
October 23rd, 2021 at 11:34 am
Yeah, we must wait for double-blind peer-reviewed scientific studies before we accept any new treatments, to be sure they’re perfectly safe.
Well, except for The Vaccine. That we were rushed through without any nonsense. That’s perfectly safe.
No, we cannot accept anecdotal evidence or hearsay claims or even official government reports from abroad. We must use masks and social distance, testing, tracing and The Vaccine, never Ivermectin. It just doesn’t work. Even if the places which use it have no Covid anymore.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/uttar-pradesh-government-says-early-use-of-ivermectin-helped-to-keep-positivity-deaths-low/ar-BB1gDp5U
October 23rd, 2021 at 12:20 pm
We make decisions in the present with information we have in the present. You can sit waiting for your forever future and the world will move on.
The present information is the benefits of the vaccine outweighs the risk for all age groups.
For an illustration of just how well, see weekly cases, hospitalizations and deaths by vaccination status and age group.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home
October 23rd, 2021 at 12:25 pm
There are times when I feel sorry for Republicans who are painted with the same brush as the crazy fringe within their ranks.
October 24th, 2021 at 7:20 am
Time for your booster, lab rat. Get that donut, boy!
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/the-delta-variant-has-a-mutation-what-we-know-so-far.html
October 24th, 2021 at 8:31 am
I always feel sorry for the TDS-addled Democrat fringe. They say that actively discriminating on the basis of race is “anti-racist,” and that actively discriminating on the basis of sex is “anti-sexist.” They say that male attributes are the norm that women must aspire to. They say that men may menstruate and become pregnant, and woman may father children.
The poor things live in terror of saying the wrong thing or of even having the wrong thoughts. They fear and despise half of their countrymen.
And now, with Biden in the president’s office, they are shown every day how poorly their policies perform in the real world.
They are unable to correct their own irrational view of reality, so they blame the nation’s ills, and their own, on an aging, obnoxious real estate developer.
October 24th, 2021 at 9:38 am
The present JUDGEMENT is the benefits of the vaccine outweighs the risk for all age groups. Fixed it for you.
Balancing risk-versus-reward requires faith in the numbers, which I lack, and faith that all long-term effects have been considered, which I doubt (there’s a reason Thalidomide is no longer routinely prescribed for morning sickness).
The sort of people who believe the government’s Covid numbers and demand that all of society act on them, are the same people who believe they can successfully manage a Planned Economy which will better serve all of humanity than letting people decide for themselves. Nowadays, we call them Karen; in the olden days, they were called Commisar.
October 24th, 2021 at 5:00 pm
“JD, I’d be more convinced if y’all had ever used a pike at all.”
Well, that’s the thing about revolutionaries: they’re always amateurs. Nobody has any experience at it until suddenly, they do.
October 26th, 2021 at 1:10 pm
Conservatives last Spring: Covid is a scam, it’s just like the flu.
Conservatives now: Annual flu shots are a scam.