We’d all still live in caves.
With bats.
Well, another weekend, another fawning feature from a major newspaper about an all-white-cis-male panel of #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 #coronavirus.https://t.co/V5HGXJA9Hl
— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) May 17, 2020
Past (and future?) Democrat Presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, doesn’t like people who disagree with her.
Armed men storming a legislature to disrupt its democratic proceedings is domestic terrorism. It cannot be tolerated.https://t.co/NcCFgA5COE
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 15, 2020
Large budget cuts are coming to the once Golden state.
Related: Here’s what real resistance looks like, Lefties!
Leaked data suggests China may have 640,000 coronavirus cases, not 80,000
Remember the official narrative: Don’t blame China for anything or you’re a RACIST!
In response to this posting, SDA regular John Robertson offered this astute comment:
If the tax paying citizens are paying attention, the days of big government are numbered.
Our high priced help turned out to be easily panicked, clueless and unprepared at the most basic levels, PPE and hospital beds.
The advice to the public, when you follow the time line, is idiotic and contradictory.
The shutdown was chaotic with no plan for returning to work.
The conditions for return keep changing.
And government and their minions never missed a meal nor a paycheck, while insisting those they feast upon stay imprisoned in their own homes, on pain of loss of even more wealth or freedom.
The daily dump of more imaginary monetary help for accredited Liberal friends is crazy.
There is no plan, no accounting and no clue as to how these funds will be repaid.
And there is no way in hell government will refuse to take taxes from those who did not accept their “help”.
So what good did our high priced help provide us when the hint of a real pandemic came along?
We are about to pay a very high price for next to no service. In fact, we are being forced to pay for people who encouraged panic and idiocy instead of logic and reason.
And the pleasure with which our fools and bandits seized upon the “power of an emergency” to display their chops as miny tyrants should not have gone unnoticed.
If we recover.
But why should I help?
The rate of theft is guaranteed to become ever more.
To pay for those clearly identified as useless and clueless, as well as being hostile and dangerous to all productive activity.
Barter.
Remember the good old days when Democrats cared about free speech, the rule of law, civil liberties, and due process? Those are ancient times for the political movement that now embraces guilty no matter what, cancel culture, and a totalitarian one-party state that decides all.
In his most recent essay, Matt Taibbi connects several dots to expose 2020 Leftists for what they truly have become:
Whatever one’s opinion of Flynn, his relations with Turkey, his “Lock her up!” chants, his haircut, or anything, this case was never about much. There’s no longer pretense that prosecution would lead to the unspooling of a massive Trump-Russia conspiracy, as pundits once breathlessly expected. In fact, news that Flynn was cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller inspired many of the “Is this the beginning of the end for Trump?” stories that will someday fill whole chapters of Journalism Fucks Up 101 textbooks.
Warrantless surveillance, multiple illegal leaks of classified information, a false statements charge constructed on the razor’s edge of Miranda, and the use of never-produced, secret counterintelligence evidence in a domestic criminal proceeding – this is the “rule of law” we’re being asked to cheer.
The same mistake is now being made with civil liberties. Millions have lost their jobs and businesses by government fiat, there’s a clamor for censorship and contact tracing programs that could have serious long-term consequences, yet voters only hear Trump making occasional remarks about freedom; Democrats treat it like it’s a word that should be banned by Facebook (a recent Washington Post headline put the term in quotation marks, as if one should be gloved to touch it). Has the Trump era really damaged our thinking to this degree?
A California-based biopharmaceutical company claims to have discovered an antibody that could shield the human body from the coronavirus and flush it out of a person’s system within four days, Fox News has exclusively learned.
Later Friday, Sorrento Therapeutics will announce their discovery of the STI-1499 antibody, which the San Diego company said can provide “100% inhibition” of COVID-19, adding that a treatment could be available months before a vaccine hits the market.
As chemists, we are troubled by the challenges to mass producing remdesivir. We aren’t alone.
J’Accuse…! “The society failed”.
CNN was unavailable for comment: Greta Thunberg admits to lack of Coronavirus expertise
Chinada — The litany of apologies and obsequiousness by Canada is one that only a lickspittle would salute
ZERO CASES IN THE REGION and Sask Health is also closing ER’s in Preeceville, Herbert, Arcola, and Davidson as farm activity ramps up for seeding. This is madness.
Your related tips in the comments. Chatter discouraged.
Via Yuri Deigin.
Shi’s holy grail was to find a direct bat to human SARS virus. Here she had the signal of fatal pneumonia in the miners & antibodies in the locals. In 2 years of surveillance of the site she found only 1 beta corona virus candidate 4991, yet she didn’t sequence it or publish?
Related: A leaked database from a Chinese military-run university suggests the country may have at least 640,000 COVID-19 cases — a figure substantially higher than Beijing’s dubious claim that it has seen just 80,000 coronavirus infections.
“These are First Nations lands. This is Indian land. Stay off our lands unless you are invited,” said Chief Bobby Cameron of the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations.
Public-health orders do not supersede First Nations law and treaties, Mr. Cameron says, adding that maintaining tradition and ceremony is even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Our ceremonies, our sun dances, our sweat lodges, our pipe ceremonies will continue and no matter what any government or what the RCMP may try to say or do, those ways are going to continue.” […]
Indigenous Services Canada did not respond to a request for comment.
Related: The Liberal government has created entirely new divisions within the Wet’suwet’en Nation in its effort to sign an agreement with the community, according to elected leaders of the First Nation and one hereditary chief who sees the deal as a power grab by a select few Indigenous leaders.
h/t Chris, PaulHarveyPage2
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Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine’s mother moved out of a personal care home with the health secretary’s help, after Levine ordered all nursing homes and long-term facilities in the state to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals. |
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The always pragmatic Bjørn Lomborg has an in-depth and brilliant conversation with Adam Carolla. Well worth a careful listen.
Chinese Hackers Are Targeting Virus Research
Hackers working for the Chinese government are trying to steal valuable research on coronavirus vaccines and treatments from U.S. health care, pharmaceutical and research organizations, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security warned Wednesday.
“China’s efforts to target these sectors pose a significant threat to our nation’s response to Covid-19,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation and DHS’s Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency said in a joint statement.
“The potential theft of this information jeopardizes the delivery of secure, effective and efficient treatment options,” the agencies said.
The announcement represents an escalation in U.S. efforts to combat Chinese espionage and cyber-attacks. It comes as President Donald Trump attempts to blame the Chinese government for not doing more to prevent the global spread of the coronavirus, which has killed more than 80,000 people in the U.S. and ravaged the economy.
“attempts to blame”…
China’s People’s Liberation Army has been involved in scientific research, co-funded by the Australian government, into the origins of the coronavirus which has been published in esteemed medical journals.
In an explosive revelation, a study co-funded by the Australian Research Council and the Chinese government, and trumpeted by The University of Sydney as helping to solve the puzzle of how COVID-19 transferred from animals to humans, relied on a key laboratory in an institute in the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Medical Sciences to conduct its “genetic sequencing” and “virus isolation”.
Also…
It is indeed curious that on Dec 30 Shi Zhengli's database description was changed. In particular, it is interesting to see "vector insects" changed to "rats". Weren't they also working on mosquito-transmitted viruses like Zika/dengue? Why would they start distancing from that? pic.twitter.com/rGGcqY2vLW
— Yuri Deigin (@ydeigin) May 14, 2020
Scott Moe, you’re smarter than this. At least, you should be.
Those who depend on rural emergency rooms are alarmed to see them close just as COVID-19 case numbers flatten in most of Saskatchewan.
Six rural emergency rooms had already been temporarily shuttered by Friday. Six more are following, including at the Arcola Health Centre, which is closing down emergency care on Thursday.
Judy Naylen depends on that care. She has “flare ups” of asthma that periodically force her to drive 10 minutes to the Arcola Health Centre in southeast Saskatchewan. The other options are bad. She said it would take 25 minutes for paramedics to get to her farm, and at least 40 minutes to drive to the nearest hospital in Estevan or Redvers.
“My throat swells, ” she said, “and there’s a good possibility that I wouldn’t make it there.”
Naylen said she’s “shocked” to learn the Saskatchewan Health Authority is moving forward with plans to temporarily close emergency services in Arcola when there are zero COVID-19 cases across the southern region.
That’s right. 
Zero.
Gov. Cuomo admits he was wrong to order nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients
Gov. Andrew Cuomo has finally admitted — tacitly and partially, anyway — the mistake that was state health chief Howard Zucker’s order that nursing homes must admit coronavirus-positive patients.
On Sunday, Cuomo announced a new regulation: Such patients must now test negative for the virus before hospitals can return them to nursing homes. Yet the gov also admitted that COVID-19 cases might still go to the facilities via other routes, and didn’t explicitly overrule Zucker’s March 25 mandate that homes must accept people despite their testing status — indeed, couldn’t even require a test pre-admission.
Keep this “brilliant expertise” in mind when you read about the explanations as to why Southern California is being kept shut down for another 3 months.
Scientists have identified a pair of neutralizing antibodies, isolated from a recovered #COVID19 patient, that block the #SARSCoV2 spike’s ability to bind to the #ACE2 receptor – a necessary step for viral entry into host cells. Read the research: https://fcld.ly/cx975oe
Political privilege: Pennsylvania Health Secretary moved own mother out of a nursing home during pandemic while directing infected patients into them
@DrZoeHyde — The unusual #Kawasaki-like illness affecting children in #COVID19 hotspots has a new name: paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome.
There will be no scrutiny of China.
Related items in the comments. And a reminder that this is not a debate thread.
This Instagram video has gone viral:
Officer Greg Anderson has now been reprimanded and is at risk of being fired. If you can afford it, you can contribute to his legal defense fund.
Most people in America & Canada have never given much thought to where the police get their authority from. Clearly it’s from the government. And where does the government get its authority? In America, at least, it’s from the people. But even in Canada, the people can only be pushed so far.
“The thin blue line” refers to the tiny percentage of police officers vs. the number of citizens. Law & Order is a very fragile tacit agreement between the authorities and the majority of the population. Events in recent weeks have clearly shown an infringement of that agreement by the authorities. They’ve gone too far under the guise of “safety” and “for the public good”.
@SharriMarkson of The Daily Telegraph — China’s People’s Liberation Army has conducted the genetic sequencing and virus isolation for scientific research into the origins of Coronavirus which has been published in esteemed medical, Nature.
More in this interview with Steve Bannon this morning.
Be sure to stick around to the 35:30 mark for the Roger Robinson segment.
Montréal among the worst cities in the world [in 5th place of 35 cities surveyed for deaths/100K] (h/t joe)
Trudeau forbids investigations into vote buying scheme: A memo told employees not to halt payment or trigger investigations for potential abuse, while department has suspended “compliance and enforcement” of EI program
Get Out Of Jail Free card: Inmates at a Los Angeles County jail intentionally tried to infect themselves with COVID-19
Huawei joins in the CCP propaganda effort. But I repeat myself.
Baseball makes a pitch to return.
"The challenge here is that we are resuming activity off a high baseline of spread. We have more cases than we thought we'd be having at this point," says @ScottGottliebMD. "We are in a tough spot right now." pic.twitter.com/1WsEhzehLV
— Squawk Box (@SquawkCNBC) May 12, 2020
Gottlieb’s Twitter stream is a good daily go-to. Knowledgeable, balanced, analytical.
Related links and news are welcome in the comments.