The Coronavirus Thread

[Tero]

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I put in some x's for the state (40/40) and the county. Our county is 52% vaccinated. Bided got about that number too.

[JimC]

What's the r squared value?

[pErvinalia]

rdrr

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[L'Emmerdeur]

The media attention given lately to the lab leak hypothesis is, in the American idiom, big hat--no cattle. Barring a whistleblower coming forward with evidence, it's possible that it will take years to find the origin of the virus. As the article notes, the origin of the Ebola virus has yet to be conclusively pinned down, and it was first observed in humans in 1975.

'US Media Give New Respect to Lab Leak Theory--Though Evidence Is as Lacking as Ever'

While many Western media outlets (e.g., NBC, 5/4/20; BBC, 4/26/20) reported on the evidence-free speculations surrounding a potential lab leak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China’s Hubei province last year (FAIR.org, 4/17/20), it has never enjoyed as much mainstream credibility as it has in recent months.

Although several reports in 2020 uncritically parroted US officials like Sen. Tom Cotton and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and discredited defectors like Yan Li-Meng, there were also many reports at the time disputing and dismissing their claims of a lab leak as a “conspiracy theory” (e.g., Vox, 3/12/20; AP, 12/17/20; Business Insider, 6/2/21).

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Despite the sudden media enthusiasm for the lab leak theory, there remains as little compelling evidence that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab as there always has been (FAIR.org, 10/6/20).

[Scot Dutchy]

Edinburgh Morningside idiom: All fur and no nickers.

[pErvinalia]

[Brian Peacock]

Yorkshire idiom: All teeth and no trousers.

[Hermit]

German idiom: Alles goose-step, keine invasion.

[rainbow]

African Idiom: A loincloth cannot hide a mamba.

[Tero]

Just for Cunt! Wuhan virus could NOT have passed from bats (who are all over the place) to an animal in some wild animal farm and then from the animal to the keeper. It had to be in the LAB, says Trump expert who hates NIH and WHO. He knows this because he is a CZAR and a GENERAL with STARS.

He added that the WHO couldn't be relied upon for an investigation because it has no authority to do anything in China without direct approval from the Communist Party.

The COVID-19 testing czar for former President Donald Trump says the “most likely” origin for the pandemic was an accidental escape from a Wuhan lab, testifying Tuesday as one of four expert witnesses during a House Republican effort to get to the bottom of how the coronavirus emerged.

Giroir, a former four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, spoke Tuesday as part of a panel organized by House Republicans on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

“There is now an increasing body of circumstantial evidence pointing to a lab leak origin of the virus,” Giroir said. “The bottom line is: I believe it’s just too much of a coincidence that a worldwide pandemic caused by a novel bat coronavirus that cannot be found in nature started just a few miles away from a secretive laboratory doing potentially dangerous research on bat coronaviruses. Sometimes, the most obvious explanation is indeed the correct one.”

“We should stop funding the Chinese Communist research into biology. This dangerous gain-of-function collaboration with China has to end … We’ve gotta enforce our treaty compliance, that should be a focus across the board," Asher said, adding, "Sanctions — China needs to be coerced. They need to feel the pain."

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-covid-test ... 00319.html

[Tero]

Detailed vaccine paper, free access
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107058

[Scot Dutchy]

Ozland is not doing well.

Fewer than 8% of Australian adults fully vaccinated four months into rollout

New data shows fewer than 40% of Australia’s oldest and most vulnerable citizens have been fully vaccinated

Fewer than than 40% of Australia’s oldest and most vulnerable citizens have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 more than four months into the rollout, new data shows.

The federal health department finally released more detailed data on the status of Australia’s vaccine rollout on Thursday.

It shows 6,109,102 people over the age of 16 (about 30%) have had a single dose and just 1,633,434 people, or 7.92%, were fully vaccinated.

What's going on guys?

[Brian Peacock]

They do have a very low rate of infection though.

[NineBerry]

Well

[Hermit]

Ozland is not doing well.

Fewer than 8% of Australian adults fully vaccinated four months into rollout

New data shows fewer than 40% of Australia’s oldest and most vulnerable citizens have been fully vaccinated

Fewer than than 40% of Australia’s oldest and most vulnerable citizens have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 more than four months into the rollout, new data shows.

The federal health department finally released more detailed data on the status of Australia’s vaccine rollout on Thursday.

It shows 6,109,102 people over the age of 16 (about 30%) have had a single dose and just 1,633,434 people, or 7.92%, were fully vaccinated.

What's going on guys?

We have an uncaring and incompetent Prime Minister.