Politics of Covid-19
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COVID lab leak is a scandal of media and government censorship
However, for my part, the most alarming aspect was the censorship, not the science.
There will continue to be a debate over the origins of COVID-19, but now there will be an actual debate.
For years, the media and government allied to treat anyone raising a lab theory as one of three possibilities: conspiracy theorist or racists or racist conspiracy theorists.
Academics joined this chorus in marginalizing anyone raising the theory. One study cited the theory as an example of “anti-Chinese racism” and “toxic white masculinity.”
As late as May 2021, the New York Times’ Science and Health reporter Apoorva Mandavilli was calling any mention of the lab theory as “racist.”
She embodies the model of the new “advocacy journalism” at the Times. Reporters who remained wedded to the dated view of objective journalism were purged from the ranks of The Times long ago.
Mandavilli and others made clear that reporters covering the theory were COVID’s little Bull Connors. She tweeted wistfully “someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not yet here.”
Does anybody know why the US Dept of Energy is publishing a report on the source of the COVID-19 virus?
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HemiHauler
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Well DoE has lots of supercomputing experience - that’s why they were heavily involved in the Human Genome Project. Further, they oversee several US labs that conduct bio-related research - specifically because of their expertise in ruining HPC/super computing clusters. Livermore (mostly funded by DoE) has a huge and capable section for WMD research.
They have lots of experience on genomic research which lends itself to this sort of analysis.
Further, DoE is part of the Intelligence Community. They have an Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence.
Seems well in line with their capabilities.
The real question is why is the report classified?
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WingsOfGold
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So the asssholes on the left won't have to admit Trump was right again Mr Kotter?
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Yeah sure. Everything you said just screams under the purview of the Department of Energy. /s
Yeah sure. Everything you said just screams under the purview of the Department of Energy. /s
HemiHauler
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You get the government you vote for.
Colbert had the same reaction I had. Maybe he should come here for the answer.
Biden Official: ‘Natural Immunity Is Not Something We Believe in’ for COVID-19
A Biden administration official told Congress that “natural immunity is not something we believe in” for members of the U.S. military who have had COVID-19, just days after a British study showed prior infection protects people as well as or better than vaccination.
The armed forces will instead continue to push service members to take the COVID-19 vaccine “and boosters,” the military undersecretary and chief diversity officer announced, before denying an inspector general’s report that officials reviewed Christians’ requests for religious exemptions only 12 minutes before dismissing them.
“We don’t know about natural immunity there, as far as how it works and how effective it is,” replied Gil Cisneros, undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, after Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., raised the U.K. study during Tuesday’s congressional hearing.
“There’s no good evidence and the research is still going on as to how we need to progress with this,” said Cisneros. “But as for right now, natural immunity is not something we believe in for this, and so we are still moving forward.”
The Lancet, a world-renowned U.K. medical journal, published a meta-study Feb. 16 that concluded, “The level of protection afforded by previous infection is at least as high, if not higher than that provided by two-dose vaccination.” Numerous researchers have found natural immunity confers equal or “greater protection” against the novel coronavirus than the COVID-19 shot.
The political appointee’s statement seemingly flies in the face of the Democrats’ longstanding claim to be the “party of science” due to their faith in man-made climate change, a status highlighted by then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in the last election. “We choose science over fiction!” Biden told voters on the campaign trail in August 2019. “We choose truth over facts!” Cisneros confirmed the Biden administration will extend its insistence on vaccination.
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Hijinx
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One thing is pretty certain. Natural immunity to Covid is not causing strokes and heart attacks among the young.
If we admit that Covid came from the Wuhan lab we have to admit that Doctor Faucci's experiments and money we paid to the Wuhan lab were partially responsible.
Follow the Science we are told and we have seen that the Science is what brought about the Covid. Gain of Function Science. We know one thing about science . If something is possible, or could be possible some scientist will give it a try ----whether it is morally or theologically wrong or not.
If we admit that Covid came from the Wuhan lab we have to admit that Doctor Faucci's experiments and money we paid to the Wuhan lab were partially responsible.
Follow the Science we are told and we have seen that the Science is what brought about the Covid. Gain of Function Science. We know one thing about science . If something is possible, or could be possible some scientist will give it a try ----whether it is morally or theologically wrong or not.