The question now becomes

[sdholloway56]

Nearly 5k officially acknowledged deaths does imply something like 500k infections.

It is Just the Flu, you know?

[sam1wiseone]

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@Canuck_2 wrote:

China may have been slow alerting but some other governments were slow reacting too.

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[jennys_mn]

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@r3020 wrote:

Did Fauci and the dems team up with china to release the virus to destroy Trump.

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Did your Bass tard Trump remove our early warning people from China, because he was the one collaborating with the Chinese to depopulate the world, so he could buy up property cheap when a bunch of people died?

And then - knowing he had the virus - tried to kill President Biden by showing up late to the debate, knowing there would be too little time to test him and his people?   

So who is the real culprit here.   Seems to me, your Bass tard Trump has a bulls eye square on him and the Republican Party.

Jen

[r3020]

Communist china lied. Millions died.

[r3020]

The lying chinese and those who protect them.

[Packard27]

Who do you trust today?

Who do you trust among the MSM or anyone from our unelected federal deep state?

Okay, how about your trust in someone currently serving in congress, on Wall Street, or out in Silicon Valley? The FBI? CIA? State Department? Our newly woke DOD? IRS? Homeland Security? CDC? The mostly peaceful protesters of BLM & Antifa? America’s university academia? The players and coaches of the Chicago Bears? Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, or Mike Bloomberg? The Pope? Drs Fauci or Scott Gotleib?

Yes indeed friends, who do you now trust these days and why?

[sdholloway56]

Q? Tucker Carlson? The Rupert Gazette? RedState? 

[sdholloway56]

One of the reasons why Taiwan did so well even with much more traffic back and forth is that they don’t trust the Chinese.

Pulling our people who were supposed to be on top of that stuff was a grave error.

Another semi-sourced bit going around is that US intel knew something was up in Nov but it didn’t hit the daily briefing until early Jan.

[sdholloway56]

Europe was already well seeded.

Would have still required quarantining everyone coming into the US, including returning nationals.

There was time to do that if there’d been the recognition and will.

[Kurt#1]

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@sam1wiseone wrote:

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@r3020 wrote:

Did Fauci and the dems team up with china to release the virus to destroy Trump.

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Taibbi on it:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/fact-checking-takes-another-beating

the issue of the pandemic’s origin had already long since been politicized, with Donald Trump’s administration anxious to point a finger at China for causing the disaster. Mike Pompeo went so far as to say there was “enormous evidence” the disease had been created at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Fauci was touted as a hero for pushing back on this and many other things.

Fauci’s new quote about not being “convinced” that Covid-19 has natural origins, however, is part of what’s becoming a rather ostentatious change of heart within officialdom about the viability of the so-called “lab origin” hypothesis. Through 2020, officials and mainstream press shut down most every discussion on that score. Reporters were heavily influenced by a group letter signed by 27 eminent virologists in the Lancet last February in which the authors said they “strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” and also by a Nature Medicine letter last March saying, “Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct.”

The consensus was so strong that some well-known voices saw social media accounts suspended or closed for speculating about Covid-19 having a “lab origin.” One of those was University of Hong Kong virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan, who went on Tucker Carlson’s show last September 15th to say “[Covid-19] is a man-made virus created in the lab.” After that appearance, PolitiFact — Poynter’s PolitiFact — gave the statement its dreaded “Pants on Fire” rating........

From the start, the press mostly mishandled Covid-19 reporting. Part of this was because nearly all of the critical issues — mask use, lockdowns, viability of vaccine programs, and so on — were marketed by news companies as culture-war narratives..........

When CNN did a fact-check on the question, “Did Fauci change his mind on the effectiveness of masks?” they seemed worried about the glee Trump followers would feel if they simply wrote yes, so the answer instead became, “Yes, but Trump is also an *****” (because he implied the need to wear masks is still up for debate). By labeling whatever the current scientific consensus happened to be an immutable “fact,” media outlets made the normal evolution of scientific debates look dishonest, and pointlessly heightened mistrust of both scientists and media.........

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