Lab Leak Update

On January 2, 2021, the Daily Mail reported on US intell agencies concluding CoViD is the result of a lab breach at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (see https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9106951/Lab-leak-credible-source-coronavirus-outbreak-says-government-official.html).

ZeroHedge picked up on that story and discusses growing evidence, including a whistleblower, cited by US intell makes it increasingly clear the PRC knew the true source of the pandemic (see https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/top-us-official-says-growing-body-evidence-shows-covid-19-leaked-chinese-lab).

For a summary of the political push-back on the lab leak theory see: https://usrtk.org/biohazards-blog/ecohealth-alliance-orchestrated-key-scientists-statement-on-natural-origin-of-sars-cov-2/

Latham and Wilson (2020) summarize the case for a lab leak: https://www.vectorsjournal.org/the-case-is-building-that-covid-19-had-a-lab-origin/

Triumph of Liberty

MN Gordon on EconomicPrism (https://economicprism.com/how-to-triumph-in-2021-or-die-trying/):

“In this context, those counting on government stimulus or relief payments to keep shoes on their feet and food in their bellies are going to be lacking.  Indeed, many already are.  But as disappointment has slipped to disenchantment something remarkable has happened.  The populace has made ever greater demands for the government to do something.

“In the midst of this, America’s fake news media recites the story of the national struggle with delicate and excruciating regularity.  They frame all happenings from the locus of the two party political system.  Any diverging views are carefully sifted out.  What’s reported is only what the story script editors allow to pass through their single micron particulate filters.

“We are told a never ending Marxian tale of the evil rich exploiting the noble poor.  We’re offered story after story with arduous focus applied to gradations of skin color, fractions of ethnicities, and the virtues of non-binary gender designations.  Political correctness condescends any exceptions with forceful rigor.  Step out of line and you’re brutally cancelled.

“Even worse, we’re told the individual must submit to the greater good of the collective.  That what’s yours is theirs.  Those who object are cast as selfish lowlifes.  Thus, we must hunker down so that we may bend the curve.

“On top of that, the goal of hard work and paying one’s way in life has been reduced to a game for suckers.  Stealth taxation through currency debasement has turned workers into chumps.  Small business owners who believe in doing things themselves have been made out for fools.

“But what’s the alternative?  Being crippled by dependency like everyone else?

“By this, we firmly stand amongst suckers, chumps, and fools.  Because suckers, chumps, and fools stand for freedom and independence.  They want no part of endless government.  They downright refuse it.

“Moreover, in the face of today’s assaults on liberty, suckers, chumps, and fools have come to embody the human spirit.  And the human spirit, as we understand it, will triumph or die trying.  Here’s what we mean…”

Read on about the case of Henry Worseley: https://economicprism.com/how-to-triumph-in-2021-or-die-trying/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Worsley_(explorer)

Special Ed Poolside – the Chicago Way

“As recently as Thursday,” according to WGN, Sarah Chambers “tweeted to rally special education teachers not to return to work Monday because it’s unsafe. Just a few hours earlier, Chambers posted a picture on Instagram that appears to show her pool side in Puerto Rico and talking about going to Old San Juan for seafood.”

The Chicago Way – where corruption is an art form.

Here’s the rest of the story – absolutely hilarious: https://wirepoints.org/chicago-teachers-union-big-shot-says-unsafe-to-teach-live-from-her-pool-side-in-puerto-rico-wirepoints/

The Easiest Game of Connect-the-Dots

  • “In 2013, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology collected horseshoe bat feces at a cave 1,000 miles away infected with a coronavirus 96.2% identical to the virus which causes COVID-19 (Nature).
  • “Peng Zhou, Wuhan Institute of Virology’s head of Bat Virus Infection and Immunization, was researching “the molecular mechanism that allows Ebola and SARS-associated coronaviruses to lie dormant for a long time without causing diseases,” while a press release from his lab was titled “How bats carry viruses without getting sick.“
  • “Zhou’s colleague, Shi Zhengli, has been involved in bioengineering bat coronaviruses – co-authoring a controversial 2015 paper which described the creation of a new virus by combining a coronavirus found in Chinese horseshoe bats with another that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice.
  • “In 2015, Nature magazine expressed concern over Zhengli’s experiments with bat coronavirus. The same year, the US government suspended funding to the labdue to their concern over risks of experimenting with bat coronavirus.
  • “Meanwhile, the US State Department warned over safety standards at the Wuhan lab in a series of cables beginning in 2015, according to the Washington Post’s Josh Rogin.”

The rest is here: https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/chinas-clampdown-covid-19-origins-exposed-ap-journalists-tailed-samples-seized

20 million Americans Jobless

20 million at the end of 2020 compared to 2 million at the end of 2019.

And that doesn’t count those who were pushed out of the workforce by US deficit spending and open border policies.

California (and New York) top the states with the biggest increase in jobless claims (as lockdowns accelerated).

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/2020-ends-around-20-million-americans-still-jobless-benefits