No longer “baseless”, but no apologies for a year of media censorship
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Well, well. just a day later, Biden decided it was worth looking into that lab accident thing after all. Right after his ill-timed cancellation of the Trump research group happened shortly before lots of credible media coverage showed up. Oops.
Shows how strongly held his opinions are - first cancel Trump, then, appease whatever needs appeasing. Whether that turns out to be China or not remains to be seen (10% for the Big Guy still TBD).
Just as long as it was his order, and not Trump’s, I guess it’ll be fine if they figure out it was possible, maybe even likely.
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And just like that, the second wave in India was over. Guess what drug wasn’t mentioned in the new article?
More on ivermectin you won’t hear about in the press.
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I don’t know. I also don’t know why it should have been mentioned. Is there evidence that it was used everywhere in India as a preventative measure or to cure existing cases? Or not everywhere, I guess, since not all the Indian states have the same case count graphs.
Research on why the JNJ and AZN viral vector vaccines may be causing blood clots. Suggests it may be to do with the way our cells make the viral proteins and some mistakes in that process.
https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-558954/v1/8c30a186-e9e2-47c1-a76c-dc3bdf10c22a.pdf (paper)
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So do those “most similar to covid bat coronaviruses” China claimed as the likely source of the pandemic even exist, or were they made up retroactively to look similar and filed into their since deleted Wuhan database to help cover their tracks?
COVID-19 ‘has NO credible natural ancestor’ and WAS created by Chinese scientists who then tried to cover their tracks with ‘retro-engineering’ to make it seem like it naturally arose from bats, explosive new study claims
- An explosive new study claims researchers found ‘unique fingerprints’ in COVID-19 samples that they say could only have arisen from manipulation in a laboratory
- DailyMail.com exclusively obtained the new 22-page paper authored by British Professor Angus Dalgleish and Norwegian scientist Dr. Birger Sørensen set to be published in the Quarterly Review of Biophysics Discovery
- The study showed there’s evidence to suggest Chinese scientists created the virus while working on a Gain of Function project in a Wuhan lab
- Gain of Function research, which was temporarily outlawed in the US, involves altering naturally-occurring viruses to make them more infectious in order to study their potential effects on humans
- According to the paper, Chinese scientists took a natural coronavirus ‘backbone’ found in Chinese cave bats and spliced onto it a new ‘spike’, turning it into the deadly and highly transmissible COVID-19
- The researchers, who concluded that COVID-19 ‘has no credible natural ancestor’, also believe scientists reverse-engineered versions of the virus to cover up their tracks
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So many questions now that they’re allowed to be asked…
the only known link between Wuhan and the only known source of the only known specimen of the most closely related virus to the cause of Covid-19 is the scientists [at Wuhan Virology Lab]. It’s highly unlikely anybody else went down the mine and then travelled a thousand miles to that particular city. Yet this bat virus from Mojiang is still not Sars-CoV-2, so either there is a closer cousin out there, or a similar bat virus was brought to Wuhan by scientists and leaked.
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Yes, very likely President Trump will look like a winner in his first assumption.
This morning on CNN a survey was conducted for 45 minutes. The question was “do you think the covid virus happened in a lab or somewhere else?”
Results, 75% lab, 25% elsewhere.
Surprised me that CNN would even allow such a survey to happen.
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Any idea when we’ll be allowed to start asking questions about the testing protocols that prompted all the economic destruction this past year?
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I didn’t chase down the Indian state specific details on ivermectin use vs not to correlate them with the graphs myself, but this article suggests those using it are doing much better than those who are not.
Cases in Delhi, where Ivermectin was begun on April 20, dropped from 28,395 to just 2,260 on May 22. This represents an astounding 92% drop. Likewise, cases in Uttar Pradesh have dropped from 37,944 on April 24 to 5,964 on May 22 - a decline of 84%.
Delhi and Uttar Pradesh followed the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) guidance published April 20, 2021, which called for dosing of .2 mg per kg of Ivermectin per body weight for three days. This amounts to 15 mg per day for a 150-pound person or 18 mg per day for a 200-pound individual.
The other three Indian states that adopted it are all down as well. Goa is down from 4,195 to 1,647, Uttarakhand is down from 9,624 to 2,903, and Karnataka is down from 50,112 to 31,183. Goa adopted a pre-emptive policy of mass Ivermectin prevention for the entire adult population over age 18 at a dose of 12 mg daily for five days.
Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu announced on May 14 they were outlawing Ivermectin in favor of the politically correct Remdesivir. As a result, Tamil Nadu’s cases are up in the same time frame from April 20 to May 22 - 10,986 to 35,873 - more than a tripling.
I’m sure there are some confounding factors, but vaccines aren’t (yet) one of them because India has only vaccinated a tiny fraction of their population and it takes 2-3 weeks to kick in at all even at an initially low level of protection.
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Symptoms of COVID-19 in vaccinated persons
This article mentions four symptoms of breakthrough COVID-19 infections:
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Interview with the last head of the FDA.
Why is it that there is now a conversation about how this pandemic started, and why is that important?
*DR. GOTTLIEB: Well, look, I think the challenge is that the side of the ledger that suggests that this could have come out of a lab has continued to expand. And the side of the ledger that suggests that this could have come from a zoonotic source, come out of nature, really hasn’t budged. And if anything, you can argue that that side of the ledger has contracted because we’ve done an exhaustive search for the so-called intermediate host, the animal that could have been host to this virus before it spread to humans. We have not found such an animal. We’ve also fully disproven the market, the food market that was initially implicated in the original outbreak as the source of the outbreak. And so that side of the ledger probably has shrunken, and China could provide evidence that would be exculpatory here.
They could provide the blood samples from those who worked in the lab in Wuhan. They’ve refused to do that. They could provide the source strain, some of the original strains. They’ve refused to do that. They [could] provide access to some of the early samples that we could sequence. They could provide an inventory of what was in the lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the lab that has been implicated in a potential lab leak. They have refused to do that. And we know that that lab was poorly constructed, had poor controls. That was reported at the time that it was first opened. We know the lab was engaging in very high-risk research, including infecting transgenic animals, animals with fully human immune systems. We know they were working with SARS-like viruses that have never been disclosed before. And now we have new evidence that some lab workers became infected right at the time that this virus was believed to be first introduced.
That’s been publicly reported. So that side of the ledger has expanded. And I think that’s why there is renewed focus on this. In terms of your final question, why this is important, I think if we assess that there is a probability or a possibility that this came out of a lab, it’s going to affect how we respond to this. We’re going to need to focus on trying to get better controls in this sort of high-risk research going forward and get better controls over these BSL-4, these high security labs that conduct this research. Incidentally, China was not conducting this research in a BSL-4 lab. They were doing it in a lower security BSL-2 lab.*
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Attempts to get ivermectin considered in the US.
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WHO is trying to stay relevant after numerous missteps over the last year.
https://news.trust.org/item/20210531094331-qp71v
The experts, who found crucial failures in the global response in early 2020, said that the WHO should be given the power to send investigators swiftly to chase down new disease outbreaks and to publish their full findings without delay.
Two dose fully- vaccinated only ~80% effective vs symptomatic with the strain that’s been prevalent in India and soon main strain in US, too.
Even more retractions of mainstream media’s partisan “debunked conspiracy theory” reporting on the lab leak possibility.
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PFE looks pretty good against the India variant, AZN less good. Note the comparison is the India vs UK variant, so the vaccines are already a little less effective than vs the original.
With BNT162b2 [PFE vaccine] 2 dose effectiveness reduced from 93.4% (95%CI: 90.4 to 95.5) with B.1.1.7 to 87.9% (95%CI: 78.2 to 93.2) with B.1.617.2. With ChAdOx1 [AZN vaccine] 2 dose effectiveness reduced from 66.1% (95% CI: 54.0 to 75.0) with B.1.1.7 to 59.8% (95%CI: 28.9 to 77.3) with B.1.617.2.
Note that the UK delayed second vaccine dose approach appears to work less well vs these variants, while those with both doses had a nearly as high level of protection.
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What’s really sad is the implications that go far beyond the lab and Covid. How many other things were declared “baseless conspiracy theory” over the past 2 years by many of those same outlets? Retract one, and to a lot of people it will validate their own supposedly-debunked positions on voting, vaccines, etc - simply because a forthcoming retraction of any of those declarations is now suddenly a plausable expectation as well. “It’s definitely proven false, until we find out it really wasnt” isnt a great way to build your credibility.
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