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By Nicholas Wade | May 5, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach three million people. Yet the origin of pandemic remains uncertain: The political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel.

In what follows I will sort through the available scientific facts, which hold many clues as to what happened, and provide readers with the evidence to make their own judgments. I will then try to assess the complex issue of blame, which starts with, but extends far beyond, the government of China.

By the end of this article, you may have learned a lot about the molecular biology of viruses. I will try to keep this process as painless as possible. But the science cannot be avoided because for now, and probably for a long time hence, it offers the only sure thread through the maze.

The virus that caused the pandemic is known officially as SARS-CoV-2, but can be called SARS2 for short. As many people know, there are two main theories about its origin. One is that it jumped naturally from wildlife to people. The other is that the virus was under study in a lab, from which it escaped. It matters a great deal which is the case if we hope to prevent a second such occurrence.

I’ll describe the two theories, explain why each is plausible, and then ask which provides the better explanation of the available facts. It’s important to note that so far there is no direct evidence for either theory. Each depends on a set of reasonable conjectures but so far lacks proof. So I have only clues, not conclusions, to offer. But those clues point in a specific direction. And having inferred that direction, I’m going to delineate some of the strands in this tangled skein of disaster.

A tale of two theories. After the pandemic first broke out in December 2019, Chinese authorities reported that many cases had occurred in the wet market?—?a place selling wild animals for meat?—?in Wuhan. This reminded experts of the SARS1 epidemic of 2002, in which a bat virus had spread first to civets, an animal sold in wet markets, and from civets to people. A similar bat virus caused a second epidemic, known as MERS, in 2012. This time the intermediary host animal was camels.

The decoding of the virus’s genome showed it belonged a viral family known as beta-coronaviruses, to which the SARS1 and MERS viruses also belong. The relationship supported the idea that, like them, it was a natural virus that had managed to jump from bats, via another animal host, to people. The wet market connection, the major point of similarity with the SARS1 and MERS epidemics, was soon broken: Chinese researchers found earlier cases in Wuhan with no link to the wet market. But that seemed not to matter when so much further evidence in support of natural emergence was expected shortly.

Wuhan, however, is home of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a leading world center for research on coronaviruses. So the possibility that the SARS2 virus had escaped from the lab could not be ruled out. Two reasonable scenarios of origin were on the table.

From early on, public and media perceptions were shaped in favor of the natural emergence scenario by strong statements from two scientific groups. These statements were not at first examined as critically as they should have been.

“We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” a group of virologists and others wrote in the Lancet on February 19, 2020, when it was really far too soon for anyone to be sure what had happened.

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The conflict in Ukraine is far from over or resolved but it seems the next planned proxy war is already in the making.

The Pentagon said on Wednesday that the United States has approved the potential sale of $619 million in new weapons to Taiwan, including missiles for its F-16 fleet.

Why can't there be peace internationally?

Sockpuppets aka Socks, are additional profiles created by the same person. They could be deceptively used to increase views and comments to a blog (or forum thread) by adding agreeable comments or sometimes 'off the wall controversy' where other members join in to defend the OP. Either way, the blog receives much more activity than one without the sock making comments.

Trolls are typically members offering only negative or off topic comments for the sheer purpose of disrupting the OP and their blog. You easily can find trolls on political blogs when the topic doesn't agree with their political position.

There may be a crossover with socks and trolls, but I'll simplify it as the difference in a cold or the flu. You could actually experience both at the same time.



Thanks for reading my blog!

WARNING: Contains dark/disturbing material.

There are some fervantly religious people here; who continually post blogs on Christianity/Catholicism, and general morality;- thereby setting themselves up as experts. I would ask them (or indeed, anybody else); this Question:

IF we are all "God's Children" (I don't believe this, but to go on); why would he make a good deal of Really Evil People? (I guess the classic example, would be Adolf Hitler). But I did not really start this blog, to discuss the Fuhrer;- instead, I would like readers to concentrate on the interesting case studies, which I have listed (below):

In the case of the Serial Killers; why does God, not only feel the need, to create Bad Eggs; but to also install (in many cases), phenomenally high IQ's into them?

Consider the list, below:



A specific example (from the above link, in more detail):



An example from Australia:


(Actually, I don't think Old Ivan was all that bright)....



Evil in Children: God's most "Innocent" Creations:



If anyone can adequately answer this question, then I will change my own personal belief/s (Atheism).

AND I don't want to hear any of that bullshit, about Man being "fallen" and have been given "free will", and/or having given themselves over to Satan, etc, etc...

THESE PEOPLE WERE BIOLOGICALLY BAD FROM THE VERY BEGINNING!

ALSO: I don't want anyone boasting about their own Mental Prowess (such comments will be deleted).

What I do want is a convincing answer to the question that I have posted (above)...

CONTINUED........

Yet there are other TYPES of Bad Eggs. They don't have to be BAD (in the sense described above); indeed a "Bad Egg" may be defined as follows:





Used in this sense ; it would appear that not only does the Very Funny Lord consider it necessary to Create "Bad Eggs" but (very often) also "selects" these "Bad Eggs" to Represent Him Personally!......

Okay, Ladies, feel free to vent about a lot of us guys if you wish. What really ticks you off about us? Here's your chance to let it all out. Maybe you'll do some of us a favor to where we can start getting our act together.

Elon Musk calls 2014 Ukraine regime change a ‘coup’
© AFP / Justin Sullivan
Twitter CEO Elon Musk polarized his followers with a tweet declaring there was “no question” that the 2014 change of government in Ukraine was a “coup.” On Saturday, the billionaire tweeted that while “the election” – presumably referring to the 2010 vote that elected Viktor Yanukovych president – was “arguably dodgy,” what followed “was indeed a coup.”

No doubt in my mind either.

Now why is it that a lot of women tear other women down?

Watching Nikki Haley making it official today with her run for office in 2024, and then seeing where women from the TV show 'The View" going after Nikki Haley. Whoopi Goldberg was very vocal in going after her. You could just see their heads explode over her run.

I feel that when a lot of these type of women do this, they feel threatened over other women no matter the reason.

Now I know that these women on The View go after guys with political differences, but these women REALLY seem to go out of their way and want to go after the women they don't like.

A lot of women can be catty towards each other as well. Not an attractive trait to have for a woman.





Later, what the hell is wrong with some of us guys. Stay tuned!