Coronavirus: Already In a Neighborhood Near You

[pfife]

Given it's fox news and we haven't seen the texts I'm posting this solely for entertainment purposes

 

[Edman85]

FWIW, I assumed it was lab leak all along. China cooking up bioweapons just tracks...

[oblong]

What does “most likely a potential” mean?’

[Edman85]

2 minutes ago, oblong said:

What does “most likely a potential” mean?’

51%

[Tigeraholic1]

 

 

Edited March 1, 2023 by Tigeraholic1

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

I stopped reading at "GOPOversight".

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

What does “most likely a potential” mean?’

It means he was telling Fox News what they wanted to hear, but wanted to hedge in case he has to back pedal later.  

[pfife]

9 hours ago, oblong said:

What does “most likely a potential” mean?’

It's also an "assessment"

[Hongbit]

9 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

 

The doctor and well known anti-vaxxer goes on to say that the greatest source of misinformation on Covid was the US government.    This part makes sense to me based on who was leading our government at the time.   

[oblong]

37 minutes ago, pfife said:

It's also an "assessment"

I think Wray is Nate Silver.

 

 

[chasfh]

On 2/27/2023 at 9:32 PM, pfife said:

I think it's that they don't care if it helps others.

I like masks so I don't have to see 3 week unbrushed maga teeth

Helping others is socialist. Unless it’s helping to put up a neighbor’s barn. Anything else is socialist. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, cowboy. #Murica

[chasfh]

On 2/28/2023 at 9:26 PM, Tigeraholic1 said:

 

 

Who is Marty Malarkey and why should I care what he has to say about this?

[Tigeraholic1]

45 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Who is Marty Malarkey and why should I care what he has to say about this?

He is just a Johns Hopkins Professor and Physician Scientists who happened to graduate for Harvard TH Chan. Probably a mouth breather with no idea what he is talking about.

[mtutiger]

Why is the Select Committee on COVID, put together largely by people who think concerns about COVID were overblown, so concerned about the origins of the leak?

It's just really bizarre cognitive dissonance.

[mtutiger]

On 2/28/2023 at 8:38 PM, Edman85 said:

FWIW, I assumed it was lab leak all along. China cooking up bioweapons just tracks...

I didn't really have a dog in the fight one way or another during the height of the pandemic because it didn't really change the fact that it was a problem that needed to be dealt with, but 60 Minutes had a really good and compelling report in early 2021 on the origins of the virus. And the fact that the WHO rep they had interviewed in that report, IIRC, was pretty equivocal and shifty in his answers. Not to mention the initial investigation visit to Wuhan was pretty tightly controlled by the CCP.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-wuhan-origins-60-minutes-2021-03-28/

That left an impression.... somehow, like most things that happened during COVID, it got really politicized. But the possibility should never have been dismissed out of hand.

But again, this is more of a geopolitical question than it is a scientific one.... and it's a little too on-the-nose that the same politicians who yammer on about how COVID was NBD turn around and breathe fire on the origins of the virus. It's not hard to figure out why imo.

Edited March 2, 2023 by mtutiger

[chasfh]

48 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

He is just a Johns Hopkins Professor and Physician Scientists who happened to graduate for Harvard TH Chan. Probably a mouth breather with no idea what he is talking about.

What is his medical specialty?

[Hongbit]

18 minutes ago, chasfh said:

What is his medical specialty?

Business.  

The Koch’s have probably lined his pockets nicely for being the medical face of the conservative COVID movement.  

Edited March 2, 2023 by Hongbit

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, Hongbit said:

Business.  

The Koch’s have probably lined his pockets nicely for being the medical face of the conservative COVID movement.  

In the American medical system, every doctor is savvy about business, and some even specialize in it.

I'm just wondering whether Malarkey's medical specialty qualifies him to speak as a COVID-19 expert.

[Motown Bombers]

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

Why is the Select Committee on COVID, put together largely by people who think concerns about COVID were overblown, so concerned about the origins of the leak?

It's just really bizarre cognitive dissonance.

Because it was manufactured to ruin Trump since they know and everyone else knows Trump was incapable and too incompetent to handle a pandemic. 

[Tiger337]

I think a lot of this is an effort to discredit and eventually dismantle our bureaucracy so there will be no more regulation of big business.  

[gehringer_2]

38 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

I think a lot of this is an effort to discredit and eventually dismantle our bureaucracy so there will be no more regulation of big business.  

Right. It has been the strategy going back to Reagan. If you find a dificiency in the government, you don't fix it, you use it as an excuse to stop doing that function, which is precisely the agenda of the GOP's corporate funders and why the GOP is able to collect so much corporate money despite the general corporate preference for sanity and stability. What could be more transparent in that regard than their crusade against the IRS? The people who rail daily about deficits won't support the agency that could earns back something like $10 for every 1$ they put into it?

[ewsieg]

On 2/28/2023 at 8:52 PM, pfife said:

Given it's fox news and we haven't seen the texts I'm posting this solely for entertainment purposes

 

Part of this is old news, FBI came out last year saying it was lab leak with medium confidence.  No one covered it until the Dept of Energy report just came out.

I see nothing wrong with the Bray/Fox portion of this tweet, but this Josh Marshall guy is not paraphrasing what he said correctly.  Bray did not say China did this as a bioweapon, but pointed out it's a concern.   A legitimate journalist should see and report that difference as it's quite important.

[Tiger337]

8 hours ago, ewsieg said:

Part of this is old news, FBI came out last year saying it was lab leak with medium confidence.  No one covered it until the Dept of Energy report just came out.

I see nothing wrong with the Bray/Fox portion of this tweet, but this Josh Marshall guy is not paraphrasing what he said correctly.  Bray did not say China did this as a bioweapon, but pointed out it's a concern.   A legitimate journalist should see and report that difference as it's quite important.

Still, You would think that the FBI director would use cautious and better constructed language instead of awkward phrasing which is going to send his target audience into hysteria.    

[chasfh]

16 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Still, You would think that the FBI director would use cautious and better constructed language instead of awkward phrasing which is going to send his target audience into hysteria.    

He knew what he was doing.

[Tiger337]

Just now, chasfh said:

He knew what he was doing.

I know he did.