The Roner, Covid, WuFlu. Big topic. Especially because of what else can show up, unannounced. Such as my most feared = humanized H5N1 which should have 70% mortality which puts it in the Great Plague zone which reduced Europe's population by 30%.
We are now 3 years into the pandemic [depending on the start point which should probably be when the virus was bottled ready to deploy]. Or 17 years if we go back to the original sars outbreak which we both remember well, with honourable Sier Dr Henry Niman explaining right here in SI Subject 53838 how it worked and how recombination with other viruses would vary it to vastly more infectious and lethal proportions.
I remember well the photo of you alone in an airport terminal wearing a breathing filter mask. Scroll upstream in the sars discussion to get to the original posts where it was figured out. I still stand by my innoculation programme of swallowed virus over a month or 3, with increasing viral content from 1 virus to a quadrillion, with time release to get to the lower intestines before release, to develop immunity very gradually to avoid acute, virulent and fatal infections. A crippled virus would be better but without such technology, I had to make do with what was possible for a bloke in a shed.
Now we have hindsight. The many hints and questions have been resolved into a coherent whole, albeit with many gaps to fill in.
Summary = USA biowarfare R&D came up with covid. Somebody thought it a good idea to deploy it. Fauci himself said they didn't want to do research in downtown USA coz of risks, which is why research that he and USA funded in Wuhan was done there. The obvious faulty logic in that is that airliners move very fast so any risk in Wuhan is a risk for everyone. Since that logic is so obvious, one would have to be suspicious that such an intelligent person could think that the separation was any protection at all.
Cutting to the chase, here is Ron Unz who has studied the Covid pandemic and from whence it came. His conclusion = USA mlitary. There's heaps to read and watch and listen to there: unz.com Thank goodness for the USA First Amendment = free speech free of government repression, suppression and bullets in the back of the head [for the most part though they did consider droning Julian Assange in the Ecuador embassy in Londonistan, allegedly].
During my now long life, I have found that everything makes sense, with no need for magic or the supernatural, when sufficient information is available. Reason and logic can deduce a LOT, once human motivations, incentives and technological and scientific possibilities are understood. But getting to the actual details fills in the gaps. Ron Unz seems to me to have applied his high horsepower brain correctly.
While there's no connection, this shows how many people were willing to have and maybe even cause a recession to get rid of Trump, or maybe release a virus. thewrap.com Firemen have been known to do arson. If somebody has done a lot of research on something, there's temptation to see it become real. Dr Strangelove. Not all people are trying to make life wonderful = see school shootings and all sorts of individual evil, as well as government level evil in which evil individuals contrive to get into positions of power. Trump was certainly removed, and it was certainly due to Covid mass killing Americans and causing vast economic disruption. But there's no direct link that I'm aware of to show that was a motivation in the deployment of Covid. Absence of evidence in not evidence of absence.
Here's another human motivation, incentive. In the computer virus world, there were various anti-virus softwares that one could buy to stop your computer getting infected. It seemed to me that creating viruses to harm computers seemed pointless when just for fun, which is not to say there are not plenty of people who might like to graffiti millions of computers just as youngsters go out at night and spend their time painting the town, literally, with graffiti. If I was an anti-virus maker, I'd want viruses on the rampage, with me able to provide a profitable solution. There was temptation to develop and release a virus, and have a protection package ready to sell. People do stuff like that. In China, the dopey Fonterra company invested in the company that supplied infant food with melamine contamination, killing and wounding many infants. Some supplier to the company figured that they could pass an amine test for protein or some such by adding melamine to cheat the test. Criminal, but it was done. Fonterra was ridiculous [I thought beforehand] for investing a 40% shareholding without having total quality control over anything that went out to be fed to people.
A good test for many things is "Who benefits?" It gives a good place to look. And "Follow the money" which often leads to perpetrators.
In defence of R&D on viruses, I agree that knowing how they work and what they might do and how that can be protected against is a very good idea. Unfortunately, there are risks that come with that R&D = some bastard sees an opportunity. So, an antivirus pharmaceutical supplier could be tempted to think that it would not be all that bad if the virus got on the loose if they had a vaccine ready to sell by the billion. Heck, they could even think themselves doing good by getting ahead of a natural pandemic and defeating it before it got going.
In a military context, they could think that setting it loose on an imagined enemy while protecting themselves with a vaccine ready to go could be an excellent idea. When there are umpty$billions of profit to be made, that can lead to all sorts of bad ideas. Look at CO2 profits for example. What's not to like? Getting in on that bandwagon is fantastically lootful, especially as one can easily convince oneself that one is saving the world. Of course there are real problems to be solved = pandemics, a frozen Earth, incoming asteroids are all great dangers requiring action to avoid. After 40 years of pondering CO2 as a problem, it still looks more benefit than problem. A huge benefit advantage over costs.
Consider incoming asteroids for a moment. A solution is to deflect them away. But some people [psycho types like me] might think, "Hmmmm, I could deflect a moderate sized asteroid TOWARDS Earth and specifically towards the USA". It would even look like an accident, act of G-d. Even more psycho types than me might consider it a good idea to actually do.
I recall Bill Maher saying that he thought a recession would be a great way to get rid of Trump. While he was joking, many a true word spoken in jest. There was great fanaticism against Trump and I would be amazed if somebody didn't think that a pandemic would be as good as a recession, especially one starting in China where plausible deniability could be achieved. Of course that's just conjecture along the lines of Who Benefits? But we assuredly got a virus which certainly started in Wuhan, right at the end of the military games and there was certainly much R&D on sars and vaccines going on for decades, with funding by USA of both Wuhan and Made in USA scientific investigation of sars and such-like. Don't forget humanized H5N1.
Anyway, Ron Unz reviewed the practise run for a respiratory infection in USA just months before the pandemic, he covers the military games in Wuhan, the timing of infections, various facts surrounding who knew what when.
Americans with dead relatives, friends, colleagues could reasonably be curious about who did what in the USA virus research and deployment business. I'm surprised, given the vast disaster, that there's not more investigation. And demands for full public information about H5N1 research and development, vaccines and antivirals. Hey look over there - Putin and Russia Russia Russia. Look out, there's a financial calamity and hyper inflation underway.
China meanwhile has had good practise at stopping a humanized H5N1 pandemic. Heck, they could even do their own H5N1 R&D and return the favour to USA. I guess they have figured out just who did what in the Wuhan labs since they have total control over the paperwork and computers, bats and researchers [the local ones anyway].
Looks as though pangolins and bats having sexcapades in the Wuhan Wettery is no longer the theory.
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