| | | During breakfast I pondered the vaping angle noted here Message 33430919 <<Vaping illness, deaths likely very rare beyond U.S., experts say>>
did a cursory look-see and went down a few rabbit holes, found a lot of rabbit droppings, some fur, as well as possible rabbit tracks, and now back more alarmed than ever, such that metaphorically candles flickered, music tempo sped up, and volume progressively higher and higher still
remaining agnostic, have no particular conclusion other than a lot of threads require investigation, should be investigated, all assuredly for the greater-good, just in case the smoke leads to fire source. So, anyway, if vaping injury can be mistaken for Covid, it follows that Covid can also be mistaken for vaping injury, but strangely mostly happens in USA even as vaping is a worldwide exercise
Puzzling, in the aggregate.
healthimaging.com
Vaping-related lung injury symptoms are easily mistaken for COVID-19, doctors warn The individuals analyzed in this study all came to the hospital with fever, nausea, cough, quick heart rate, rapid breathing and low blood-oxygen levels. Lab testing suggested inflammation commonly seen in COVID-19 and chest imaging depicted nonspecific ground-glass opacities. “While everything indicated COVID-19 infection, their SARS-CoV-2 testing returned negative,” Nandalike explained.
scoop.co.nz
WHO’s Attempts To Link Vaping To COVID, Discredited The World Health Organization’s attempts to link vaping with COVID-19 have been completely discredited by a significant study out of the United States, says Asia Pacific’s leading Tobacco Harm Reduction consumer advocacy group.
scmp.com
Chinese supercomputer and American doctors clash over AI coronavirus diagnosis of young US vaperChina’s Tianhe-1 machine says white patches detected on lungs suggest probable Covid-19 But North Carolina doctor says five patients with similar symptoms were not evidence of an earlier outbreak
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/24/coronavirus-vaping-michigan-whitmer-stay-home-order/2908032001/
Michigan governor suggested possible link between vaping and coronavirus. What do doctors say?
time.com
Is There Actually a Link Between Vaping and Coronavirus? ... Speculation about a link between vaping and COVID-19 has grown in recent weeks. News reports have noted that some young, hospitalized COVID-19 patients also vaped, and at a tele-town hall on March 19, a constituent asked New York Rep. Anthony Brindisi about the possibility of a connection. The National Institute on Drug Abuse wrote on its blog that people with substance-use disorders, including those who vape, could be especially hard-hit by COVID-19. In various corners of the internet, fringe theories with little-to-no scientific evidence have popped up making connections between a prior outbreak of vaping-related lung illnesses in the U.S. and COVID-19. But is there any actual link between vaping and coronavirus? Experts say it’s impossible to say for sure.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaping/teen-vapers-7-times-more-likely-get-covid-19-non-n1236383
Teen vapers up to 7 times more likely to get COVID-19 than non-e-cig users, says new Stanford study
Hmmn accidentally went down the wrong rabbit warren news-medical.net But rather alarming nevertheless
Research suggests Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine reprograms innate immune responses
Back to vaping, a thread that suggest vaping death is afraid of other nations and only happens in USA at around the same time Covid took flight, soon after Fort Detrick was shut down
2019–2020 vaping lung illness outbreak - Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 2019–2020_vaping_lu...
[Vaping] Deaths [edit]  As of 21 January 2020, a total of 60 deaths linked to vaping products have been confirmed in 27 states and the District of Columbia: Alabama, California (4), Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia (3), Illinois (5), Indiana (4), Kansas (2), Louisiana, Massachusetts (3), Michigan, Minnesota (3), Mississippi, Missouri (2), Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York (2), Oregon (2), Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee (2), Texas, Utah, and Virginia.[2] The median age of deceased persons was 51 years and ranged from 15 to 75 years, as of 14 January 2020.[2] Other countries[edit] What has occurred in the US has not occurred in other places where vaping is frequent such as the UK.[4] In European countries such as France, there is no evidence of an outbreak of the vaping-associated lung illness that occurred in the US.[36]
manilatimes.net
Now the world cries: Investigate Fort Detrick
Sunday, August 8, 2021
Reacting to my column on Saturday, August 7, various sources swamp my desk with information on a worldwide call for investigation of Fort Detrick in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic. The agitation necessarily began with Chinese citizens petitioning the World Health Organization (WHO) to look into allegations that the origin of the coronavirus could be the US military camp in Maryland.
It was normal in any case, the Chinese reaction. Because of impulsive media accounts, largely explained by the hardline anti-Chinese stance taken by US President Donald Trump during the US presidential campaign, the initial reported outbreak of the killer pathogen in Wuhan placed China as the culprit for the pandemic. Credible accounts, however, have zeroed in on Fort Detrick as the real origin.
Still part of the article of Herman Til Laurel that I quoted in my column Saturday is this account: One of the most intriguing reports concerns the early presence of a "strange flu" in other countries and the mysterious issues such as the "vaping deaths" emanating from the US around the middle of 2019. Those reports emerged from the US revolving around Fort Detrick, which had been ordered by the US CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) to shut down for "national security reasons" in August 2019. More aggravating reports followed, such as the admission by Belleville Mayor Michael Melham that he tested positive for Covid-19 antibodies months after a severe November 2019 flu-like illness. This was followed by former CDC chief Robert Redfield admitting in March 2020 before a US congressional hearing that some flu deaths were posthumously discovered to be Covid-19 deaths."
But why is it that there appears to be a clampdown every time Fort Detrick's probable role in the worldwide spread of coronavirus is at issue?
According to Laurel, "Fort Detrick is at the center of many questions because of its history and the nature of its mission. It had been associated with the infamous World War 2 Japanese germ-warfare Unit 731, obtaining biological information in exchange for leniency to Japanese biowarfare war criminals. Fort Detrick went on to be linked with mind-control drug experiments with LSD in the secret MK Ultra program, anthrax virus leaks, Ebola and smallpox experiments, and then the 2019 shutdown."?"Fort Detrick," he says, "is too dangerous a mystery to remain shrouded in secrecy. This would open the door to hundreds of other US biolabs, including 200 in other countries and regions. Efforts to interview civilians living around the military base have been met with sewn lips. This includes an interview at the Greenspring Village five kilometers out of Fort Detrick at a seniors' home where five seniors died after an outbreak of respiratory illness in the summer of 2019. All these circumstances and questions arising from them make it imperative that the next focus of the virus origins-tracing investigation be done at Fort Detrick, Frederick, State of Maryland, the United States of America.
"When we read that the international petitions for the opening up of the Fort Detrick investigation starting with the Chinese netizens' petition have so far passed 24.9 million signatures, I thought of the thousands of Filipinos who agree that Fort Detrick mysteries must be brought to the light of day. They must have a chance to petition the WHO, too. This is the only way for the global community to make progress and not go around in circles as some elements in the US insist on doing by pressuring the WHO to avoid scrutiny of their own possible accountabilities."
Laurel is upheld in his perception of Fort Detrick in the Covid-19 pandemic by a number of experts. Dr. Peter Ben Embarek of the WHO called it highly unlikely that the pathogen that has now claimed 2.3 million lives worldwide originated in Wuhan, China. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, in fact, has stated that the world owes it to China for its prompt action in containing the contagion in its confines; China was free of the virus after more or less some three months of lockdowns.
How was it possible that a nation supposedly the origin of the pathogen could have proceeded to have it spread worldwide and at the same time stopped its spread in its limited confines?
In other words, you don't kill a virus right at its onset and yet let it spread elsewhere in the world.
International media reported the outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, yet as early as September of that year, there had been recorded cases of coronavirus attacks in Spain, Italy and France.
All this goes to show that Covid-19 had already been on the upsurge even before it hit China.
And yet for all of America's blame-shifting, China saw to it to cooperate with the WHO's effort in combating the pandemic. Certainly graver consequences could have befallen the world had not China done so.
Last Thursday, the now-legendary Pandesal Forum sponsored a book launching of Ado Paglinawan's No Vaccine for a Virus Called Racism to coincide with a forum organized by the Phil-Brics and hosted by Wilson Lee Flores purposely to add momentum to the now-burgeoning worldwide movement to have the mysteries of Fort Detrick unearthed once and for all.
The Manila Times Newsletter
manilatimes.net
Fort Detrick stench oozes on
Sunday, August 8, 2021
LAST September 2020, my friend Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan released a book entitled No Vaccine for a Virus Called Racism, not just portraying how President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were politicizing the virus in the lead-off to the US presidential elections in November 2020, but more significantly, presenting a chronology of newspaper and television reports, showing what could be a plausible historical readback prior to the confirmation of a coronavirus in China, specifically Wuhan, in December 2019.
The earliest he could dig up was WJLA-TV, an ABC News affiliate reporting on July 11, 2019 that two people had died and 18 others hospitalized after a "respiratory outbreak" at a Virginia retirement community.
ABC News indicated that the outbreak occurred on June 30, 2019.
Paglinawan pursued the matter with astonishing detail.
He wrote that the Fairfax County Department of Health said that 54 individuals had become ill with "respiratory symptoms ranging from cough to pneumonia lasting 11 days from June 30 at Green spring Retirement Community in Springfield. The symptoms described were fever, cough, body aches, wheezing, hoarseness and general weakness.
Greenspring Village is in Fairfax County, Virginia. The facility in Greenspring is home to 263 residents, Paglinawan quoted Benjamin Schwartz, director of epidemiology and population health in Fairfax County's health department as saying, "One of the things about assisted living is when you have a lot of older people in close proximity who have medical conditions, there is increased risk for outbreaks."
The Washington Post also picked up the story.
What was curious - and according to Paglinawan we must pay close attention to - was that Director Schwartz said, "[S]wabs have been taken and initial tests showed those infected have come back negative for common virus, or bacteria-bone respiratory illness including influenza and Legionnaire's disease."
By July 15, a third person had died, 23 were hospitalized and dozens more fell ill. The infection also spread to Greenspring's staff, affecting 19 employees at the complex.
Is it sheer coincidence that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a letter of concern to Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland on July 12, 2019, followed by a cease-and-desist order three days later?
The world's largest facility of bioweapons finally closed a month after in August.
I quote a substantial portion of a piece written by Herman Tiu Laurel for the Global Times:
"SARS-CoV-2, which is the virus behind the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), was first reported in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Since then, it has been said to spread to 192 countries around the world, infecting over 177 million people as of last month.
"The United States reported its first case of SARS-CoV-2 on Jan. 21, 2020, in a 35-year-old American citizen traveling from Wuhan, China to his home in Washington state. This individual had a symptom-onset date of Jan. 19, 2020. Importantly, two other individuals of the 12 cases that were first identified in the United States around this time identified their symptom-onset dates to be Jan. 14, 2020.
"It was not until much later in 2020 as reported by Bloomberg on Dec. 1, 2020, that researchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) discovered that people in several states in the US were infected with SARS-CoV-2 much earlier than January 2020.
"I will repeat, a testing found SARS-Cov-2 infections in the US a year before, providing further evidence indicating the coronavirus was spreading globally weeks before the first cases were reported in China."
According to Laurel, in the interest of global scientific inquiry and the world's peace of mind, China fully cooperated with the WHO to open Wuhan, its environs and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to a team of 15 expert virologists, epidemiologists and other scientists of international composition from the US, Australia, Germany, Japan, Britain, Russia, the Netherlands, Qatar and Vietnam. The WHO mission spent up to four weeks in China. Dr Peter Ben Embarek, head of the WHO team, concluded that the "lab-leak" theory was "extremely unlikely."
The reference, of course, was to an instant widespread perception that the virus had leaked from the Wuhan laboratories. No, the virus did not leak from a laboratory in Wuhan but, as subsequent developments would disclose, like the very testimony by the CDC director before the US Senate, that examination of bodies exhumed revealed they had died of Covid-19 and not pneumonia as contained in the death certificates.
Early on the reported outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan in 2019, a source provided me with information that the new pathogen is laboratory-made, said to be sanctioned by the CDC which supplied them for multiplication to the United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases inside Fort Detrick, Maryland. At a time when media dissemination pictured the outbreak as a natural phenomenon emanating from a leap of the pathogen from bats which found its way in the wet markets of Wuhan, my reported notion of a laboratory-made Covid-19 was instantly unpopular and it dealt me a beating from many quarters. With the revived interest on the Fort Detrick controversy, my early perception of the Covid-19 pandemic may just prove to be the correct one.
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By the weight of proof proposed by Mosher, himself a suspect mouth piece, the blame can be assigned every which way in a lot of ways
So, investigations all around called for, one can reasonably suppose, I suppose
nypost.com
Here’s all the proof Biden needs to conclude COVID-19 was leaked from a lab
By Steven W. Mosher
Biden administration officials are suddenly everywhere in the news, warning that the origins of the COVID-19 virus may remain shrouded in mystery for all time.
This curious effort to lower expectations comes as our spy agencies are halfway through the 90-day review that Joe Biden loudly and publicly “ ordered” them to conduct back on May 26.
May 26 was, as it happens, the very same day we learned that, a few weeks earlier, Biden had secretly canceled an investigation launched by the Trump administration into exactly the same question.
Damage control? You may draw your own conclusions.
In announcing the probe, the present occupant of the Oval Office tried to frame the “origins” issue by claiming that the virus “either emerged from human contact with an infected animal or from a laboratory accident.”
Enlarge ImagePresident Joe Biden ordered US spy agencies in May to do a 90-day investigation into whether COVID-19 was released by a Chinese lab.Shawn Thew/UPIWrong, and wrong again. It wasn’t an innocent bat or a lab “accident” that produced the deadly virus, but highly classified gain-of-function research carried out under the direction of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA). The only thing that remains a mystery is how it made its way out of the lab. I was among the first to question China’s original cover story — that someone had gotten a bad bowl of bat soup in something called the Wuhan Wet Market — in my Post article of February 22, 2020.
In my article, “Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab,” I marshaled several plausible pieces of evidence — all of which pointed to the lab:
Scientists working at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Barcroft Media via Getty ImagesChina had only one Level 4 lab that can “handle deadly coronaviruses,” and that lab just happened to be located in Wuhan at the very “epicenter of the epidemic.”
Underlining China’s shoddy lab-safety record, Xi Jinping himself had, in the early days of the crisis, warned about “lab safety” as a national-security priority.
Following Xi’s guidance, “the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive titled: ‘Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.’?”
As soon as the outbreak began, China’s military was put in charge, with the PLA’s top biowar expert, General Chen Wei, dispatched to Wuhan to deal with it.Even at the time there was other evidence available, which likewise pointed to the lab — and to the PLA’s involvement:
The authorities ordered all of the early samples of the coronavirus collected by private and university labs in China — vital for tracing the origin and early spread of the disease — to be destroyed.
China’s civilian Center for Disease Control was completely shut out of the picture in favor of the PLA, suggesting a classified military program was involved.
Military academies and installations in and around Wuhan were closed around January 1, well before the Chinese public was notified that there was a problem.
China lied about human-to-human transmission, leaving the US and other countries unprepared for the rapid spread of the virus, ensuring that more lives would be lost.The evidence was circumstantial, to be sure, but I was fairly certain by that point that I could have convinced a jury of China’s culpability. Even so, while I waited for more facts to surface, I was careful to call the “lab origin” just a possibility.
Facebook, however, didn’t wait. It quickly moved to suppress the column as “False Information,” refusing to unblock it until April 17. The mainstream media likewise piled on, slamming The Post for publishing the writings of a “conspiracy theorist.” Others who raised questions about the pandemic’s origins were heavily censored as well — if not “canceled” entirely.
Security personnel keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Thomas Peter/REUTERSChina locked down the Wuhan lab, and the US virology establishment closed ranks, both denying that gain-of-function research — or a PLA bioweapons research program — had anything to do with the pandemic.
It has taken over a year, but the attempted cover-ups on both sides of the Pacific have gradually unraveled.
During that time China has burned through a half-dozen increasingly implausible cover stories. After the collapse of the Wuhan Wet Market fable, China tried to pin the blame on a wild succession of animals — bats and pangolins and raccoon-dogs, oh my! — for harboring the virus. We seem now to be back to bats, and are being told that many years ago, in a cave far away from the Wuhan lab, minors fell ill from being peed upon, pooped upon, and even bitten by those same nasty, virus-harboring creatures.
But the wildest tale by far being bandied about by the Chinese authorities is that CoV-2 was a US bioweapon, created in the U. Army’s research labs in Fort Detrick, Maryland. As to how the “American Virus” — as they unabashedly call it — got to China, they have an answer for that too: it was secretly released on the unsuspecting Chinese population of Wuhan by the American soldier-athletes who participated in the October 2019 Military World Games in that city.
Biological science specialists, background, wear biosafety protective clothing for handling viral diseases at US Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.Andrew Harnik/APWho makes up such bat-sh*t crazy stories about secret bioweapons and superspreading soldiers? The same people, it seems, whose fever dream for decades has been to do exactly the same thing. There are numerous scientific publications that prove Chinese labs were engaged in dangerous gain-of-function research, along with new evidence that these techniques were being used in an active bioweapons program that included the Wuhan lab. As China defector Dr. Yan Limeng has taught us, the PLA itself isolated the original bat coronavirus that served as the “backbone” or “template” for CoV-2. Additional genetic material was then spliced into this virus to make it more infectious and deadly to humans. This is not speculation.
Those doing the splicing left “signatures” behind in the genome itself. To boost a virus’ lethality, for example, those doing gain-of-function research customarily insert a snippet of RNA that codes for two arginine amino acids. This snippet — called double CGG — has never been found in any other coronaviruses, but is present in CoV-2. Besides this damning evidence, there are other indications of tampering as well.
The dwindling ranks of lab “deniers” continue to insist that the vast laboratory of nature is capable of infinite surprises. Of course that’s true. And it’s also true that if you have enough monkeys typing the four DNA bases A, C, G, and T on enough computer keyboards they will eventually produce a complete and accurate copy of the human genome, which is 6.4 billion such bases long. But what are the odds?
And what are the odds that the virus passed naturally from animals to humans?
Volunteers in protective suits disinfect a factory with sanitizing equipment in China on Feb. 18, 2020. China Daily via REUTERSDr. David Asher, who headed the now-canceled State Department investigation, put that very question to a biostatistician, and was told that the odds were roughly … 1 in 13 billion. In the face of that vanishingly small probability, Asher remarked, “to say this came out of a zoonotic situation is sort of ridiculous.”
What we do know, as former Deputy National Security Advisor (DNSA) Mathew Pottinger pointed out in a February interview, is that the PLA had been “doing secret classified animal experiments in that same laboratory [Wuhan Institute of Virology]” as early as 2017. While the Wuhan lab poses as a “civilian institution,” Pottinger said, US intelligence has determined that the lab has collaborated with China’s military on publications and secret bioweapons projects.
That’s David Asher’s opinion as well. “The Wuhan Institute of Virology is not the National Institute of Health,” he says. “It was operating a secret, classified program. In my view, and I’m just one person, my view is it was a biological weapons program.”
Dr. David Asher believes the Wuhan Institute of Virology was running a biological weapons program.Rod Lamkey/CNPA Chinese book that recently fell into the hands of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) further confirms that Chinese military scientists have been focused on what they called the “new era of genetic weapons” since at least 2015. They begin by asserting that World War III would be fought with biological weapons, and go on to describe how viruses can be collected from nature and “artificially manipulated into an emerging human disease virus, then weaponized and unleashed.”
Sound familiar?
In fact, the scientists even singled out coronaviruses as a class of viruses that can be readily weaponized, and they suggest that the ideal candidate for a bioweapon would be something like the coronavirus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. It is worth noting that the virus that causes COVID-19 is a type of SARS virus, which is why the World Health Organization insists that we call it SARS-CoV-2. As in, the “second” SARS virus.
Peter Jennings, the executive director of ASPI, said the new document “clearly shows that Chinese scientists were thinking about military application for different strains of the coronavirus and thinking about how it could be deployed. It begins to firm up the possibility that what we have here is the accidental release of a pathogen for military use.”
After the collapse of the Wuhan Wet Market fable, China tried to pin the blame on a wild succession of animals — bats and pangolin.AlamyThe document, he went on to say, is the closest thing to a “smoking gun as we’ve got.”
Is it really that surprising that the same murderous regime that has brought us forced abortion and sterilization, forced organ harvesting, and genocide in real time would also be developing deadly bioweapons to release upon the world?
China had both the intention and the capability to take a harmless bat virus, turn it into a deadly pathogen, and then release it upon the world. And the evidence suggests that it did just that.
More than half of all Americans — including 59 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats — now believe the virus was made in a lab and released either accidentally or intentionally. Indeed, there has been a massive hardening of public opinion against the communist giant across the board, with 89 percent of adults now seeing the country as hostile or dangerous.
By killing 600,000 Americans, China has proven that it is both.
But whether the Biden administration makes China pay for its crimes is another question.
Steven W. Mosher is the author of the forthcoming “ Politically Incorrect Guide to Pandemics” (Regnery Press). |
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