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Texas Christian Mom, A Self-Described 'Woman Of God' And 'Spirit-Soldier For Trump' Interrupts COVID-Related School Board Meeting To Rant About Anal Sex, Including 'The Idea of Pussy', 'Hand On The Titties', And The Definition of 'Cornhole'. Devolves Into Screaming She Does Not Have And Does Not Want To Have Anal Sex

 

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‘Karen on steroids’: Maskless Texas woman arrested at Nordstrom Rack

https://nypost.com/2021/04/20/maskless-texas-woman-arrested-at-nordstrom-rack-viral-videokaren-on-steroids-maskless-texas-woman-arrested-at-nordstrom-rack/

A Texas school board candidate was kicked out of an Austin store for refusing to wear a mask — and was then arrested outside as she ranted at police officers, viral video shows.

The incident occurred on April 7 at a Nordstrom Rack, where the woman refused to wear a mask inside and allegedly got physical with employees, according to Jam Press.

The woman, identified later in the video as Kara Bell, allegedly told employees she had a medical exemption to not wear a mask and pushed a worker to get into a dressing room, per the report.

After police arrived, Bell refused to identify herself on multiple occasions. Instead, Bell alleged she was the one assaulted and insinuated she was being singled out for her race.

“It kind of seems like it’s a racist thing when a black woman doesn’t have a mask on but she comes after the white woman,” Bell says in the video. “I mean, that’s the only difference, we’re both women.”

Bell, a local school board candidate, can be seen recording the entire exchange on her phone and attempted to correct the officers on multiple occasions. She grew more frustrated after the cops revealed her identity, which she claimed they did illegally.

At one point, Bell appears to start walking away before being told she was still detained and was not allowed to leave.

 

“I am a woman of God,” she says in the clip, which garnered nearly 40,000 likes on Twitter. “This is my right as much as it is yours. This is my land as much as it is yours. I did not sign up for this. I am a Christian woman of God and you are not gonna put your disgusting rules on me that are false and not true. I will not have it. I’m sick of being bullied and I’m sick of being lied to. It’s not going to happen anymore, do you understand?”

Shortly after the tirade, officers began cuffing Bell, who let out a surprised “Oh my gosh.”

Social media users were quick to comment on the video, labeling Bell a “Christian Karen,” “Karen on steroids” and a “Covidiot” for the actions preceding her arrest.

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Texas needs to do more for mental illness funding.

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Wuhan scientists 'planned to release coronaviruses into bats' in 2018, claims report

Newly revealed documents purport to show grant proposals to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” of bat coronaviruses into cave bats in Yunnan

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/wuhan-scientists-planned-release-coronaviruses-25041385

Scientists in Wuhan planned to release airborne coronaviruses into Chinese bats to inoculate them against diseases that could leap to humans, it has been claimed.

Newly revealed documents from 2018 purport to show grant proposals to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” of bat coronaviruses into cave bats in Yunnan, China.

The documents have been published by Drastic, a web-based team set up by scientists from across the world who look into the origins of the Covid outbreak.

The group claimed the documents were brought to their attention by an unnamed whistle-blower.

They say that the EcoHealth Alliance worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in a bid to carry out 'advanced and dangerous' human pathogenicity Bat Coronavirus research.

The documents are for a grant proposal submitted to the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2018.

It is claimed Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) proposed injecting deadly chimeric bat coronaviruses collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) into humanised and “batified” mice.

The proposal (named ‘DEFUSE’) was ultimately rejected for full funding, the group said, but the door was left open for partial funding.

 

The refusal reportedly stated: “It is clear that the proposed project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk”, going on to warn the team had not properly considered the dangers of enhancing the virus or releasing a vaccine by air.

The group who published the documents said in a statement: "The grant proposal includes some elements of research that are already public via scientific papers, as well as other elements that have never been made public.

"Including vaccinating wild bats using aerosolized viruses and further work on published and unpublished strains that could have directly produced SARS-CoV-2.

"These grant proposal documents also show a staggering level of deep involvement of EHA with the WIV, on matters of national interest."

A World Health Organisation investigation into the origin of the coronavirus pandemic has not ruled out any theory behind the outbreak.

In February, a team of WHO and Chinese experts said the virus was "extremely unlikely" to have entered the human population as a result of a laboratory-related incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

 

Wuhan scientists planned to release coronavirus particles into cave bats, leaked papers reveal

https://news.yahoo.com/wuhan-scientists-planned-release-skin-145326380.html

 

Wuhan and US scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronavirus particles into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, leaked grant proposals dating from 2018 show.

New documents show that just 18 months before the first Covid-19 cases appeared, researchers had submitted plans to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles and aerosols containing “novel chimeric spike proteins” of bat coronaviruses into cave bats in Yunnan, China.

They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to fund the work.

 

Papers, confirmed as genuine by a former member of the Trump administration, show they were hoping to introduce “human-specific cleavage sites” to bat coronaviruses which would make it easier for the virus to enter human cells.

When Covid-19 was first genetically sequenced, scientists were puzzled about how the virus had evolved such a human-specific adaptation at the cleavage site on the spike protein, which is the reason it is so infectious.

The documents were released by Drastic, the web-based investigations team set up by scientists from across the world to look into the origins of Covid-19.

In a statement, Drastic said: “Given that we find in this proposal a discussion of the planned introduction of human-specific cleavage sites, a review by the wider scientific community of the plausibility of artificial insertion is warranted.”

The proposal also included plans to mix high-risk natural coronavirus strains with more infectious but less dangerous varieties.

The bid was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, the US-based organisation, which has worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researching bat coronaviruses.

Team members included Dr Shi Zhengli, the WIV researcher dubbed “bat woman”, pictured below, as well as US researchers from the University of North Carolina and the United States Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Centre.

 

Dr Shi Zhengli

Darpa refused to fund the work, saying: “It is clear that the proposed project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk”, and warned that the team had not properly considered the dangers of enhancing the virus (gain of function research) or releasing a vaccine by air.

Grant documents show that the team also had some concerns about the vaccine programme and said they would “conduct educational outreach … so that there is a public understanding of what we are doing and why we are doing it, particularly because of the practice of bat-consumption in the region”.

Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St Georges, University of London, who struggled to get work published showing that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been carrying out “gain of function” work for years before the pandemic, said the research may have gone ahead even without the funding.

“This is clearly a gain of function, engineering the cleavage site and polishing the new viruses to enhance human cell infectibility in more than one cell line,” he said.

Daszak was also behind a letter published in The Lancet last year which effectively shut down scientific debate into the origins of Covid-19.

 

Wuhan testing - Roman Pilipey/Shutterstock

Viscount Ridley, who has co-authored a book on the origin of Covid-19, due for release in November, and who has frequently called for a further investigation into what caused the pandemic in the House of Lords, said: “For more than a year I tried repeatedly to ask questions of Peter Daszak with no response.

“Now it turns out he had authored this vital piece of information about virus work in Wuhan but refused to share it with the world. I am furious. So should the world be.

“Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) proposed injecting deadly chimeric bat coronaviruses collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology into humanised and ‘batified’ mice, and much, much more.”

A Covid-19 researcher from the World Health Organisation (WHO), who wished to remain anonymous, said it was alarming that the grant proposal included plans to enhance the more deadly disease of Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers).

“The scary part is they were making infectious chimeric Mers viruses,” the source said.

“These viruses have a fatality rate over 30 per cent, which is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than Sars-CoV-2.

“If one of their receptor replacements made Mers spread similarly, while maintaining its lethality, this pandemic would be nearly apocalyptic.”

EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology have been aproached for comment.

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Covid cures stupid

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Hollywood Blvd, Saturday, 11:22 AM:

ANTI-VAXX PROTESTER: Do you see all of these homeless people around. Are they dead in the street with COVID? Hell no. Why?

HOMELESS PERSON (walking by): Because I’m vaccinated you dumb fuck.

 

 

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Britain’s Covid Missteps Cost Thousands of Lives, Inquiry Finds

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s slowness last year to impose a lockdown and institute widespread testing had tragic results, according to a parliamentary report.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/world/europe/uk-covid-deaths-inquiry.html

LONDON — Britain’s initial response to the Covid-19 pandemic “ranks as one of the most important public health failures the United Kingdom has ever experienced,” a parliamentary inquiry reported on Tuesday, blaming the government for “many thousands of deaths which could have been avoided.”

In a highly critical, 151-page report, two committees of lawmakers wrote that the government’s failure to carry out widespread testing or swiftly impose lockdowns and other restrictions amounted to a pursuit of “herd immunity by infection” — accepting that many people would get the coronavirus and that the only option was to try to manage its spread.

“It is now clear that this was the wrong policy, and that it led to a higher initial death toll than would have resulted from a more emphatic early policy,” the report concluded.

Although many of its findings were already known, the report grew out of the first authoritative investigation of Britain’s pandemic response. The inquiry, led by lawmakers from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s own Conservative Party, described a litany of failures by his government in the months after the first coronavirus cases were detected in Britain in January 2020.

Britain has experienced one of the worst Covid-19 outbreaks among wealthy nations, with 162,000 deaths officially attributed to the disease. Like many Western democracies, at the outset of the pandemic it struggled to balance individual liberties with strict measures such as lockdowns, and suffered from mismanagement at the top levels of government.

The country has tried to put those missteps behind it, racing ahead last winter and spring as one of the world leaders in vaccinations, with more than three-quarters of people 12 and older having now received two doses of a Covid vaccine. As deaths declined from prior peaks, Britain cast off nearly all restrictions, and even though infections remain high, Mr. Johnson has tried to portray the country as having put the worst of the pandemic behind it.

But as he struggles against a raft of new economic problems, the report renewed criticisms of his government’s handling of the virus. It does not require the government to act, but its findings are likely to influence the public debate for months to come. A full public inquiry promised by Mr. Johnson is not scheduled to begin until next year.

“This report lays bare the failings of the U.K. government to contain Covid, including delayed border measures, nonexistent testing for weeks, lack of P.P.E. for frontline workers and a late lockdown,” said Devi Sridhar, the head of the global public health program at the University of Edinburgh. “Hopefully, lessons will be learned from this.”

The inquiry drew on numerous interviews over the past year with government officials and experts, many of which were held in open sessions. It concluded that while Britain had a robust system in place to detect and respond to major public health threats, it was too heavily geared toward the risk of pandemic flu and not a faster-spreading, more dangerous respiratory disease such as Covid-19, SARS or MERS.

Asian countries with more recent experience of such diseases quickly put in place aggressive containment, testing and tracing strategies. But in Britain, the government’s scientific advisers advocated a far more gradual approach, mistakenly believing “that a new, unknown and rampant virus could be regulated in such a precise way,” the report said.

The lawmakers found that such decisions were the product of “groupthink” among top officials in Mr. Johnson’s government and its advisers, who relied on mathematical models to guide their response.

On Tuesday, the government defended its actions, saying they were guided by science, and reiterated its regret for the country’s suffering. “One can’t apply hindsight to the challenges that we faced,” Steve Barclay, a cabinet minister, told BBC Radio.

But in fact, early in the outbreak, infectious disease and public health experts pleaded with the British government to take stronger measures. It was only in late March 2020, with infections doubling every three days and the national health system at risk of being overwhelmed, that Mr. Johnson reversed course and ordered a full nationwide lockdown — a week to two weeks after France, Spain and Italy had done so.

“The loss of that time was to prove fatal to many,” the report said.

Mr. Johnson, who was hospitalized with Covid in April of 2020, has consistently faced opposition to pandemic restrictions from a large faction within his party.

The inquiry found that the government’s decision not to order a lockdown or conduct extensive contact tracing was due in part to officials’ belief that the British public would not accept such restrictions — a view that was based on limited evidence and turned out to be false, as people generally complied with lockdown measures, the report said.

The assumption of noncompliance was “one of the critical things that was completely wrong in the whole official thinking,” Dominic Cummings, a former chief adviser to Mr. Johnson, told the lawmakers in testimony this spring during which he laid into his former boss for incompetence.

The decision to abandon widespread testing early in the pandemic also cost lives, especially as older people were discharged from hospitals to care homes without knowing whether they or their caregivers were infected with the virus. The low levels of testing meant that the country “lost visibility of where the disease was spreading,” the report said. The care facilities, like many hospitals, lacked protective equipment, allowing the virus to run rampant among the country’s most vulnerable people.

Peter English, a retired consultant in communicable disease control, said the government’s panel of health experts, the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, was filled with “the wrong experts,” people who lacked experience with infectious diseases.

“They had lots of modelists in place, but very few people who were used to dealing with these things and managing outbreaks in practice,” he said.

The inquiry did praise certain aspects of Britain’s handling of the pandemic, in particular its early investment in vaccine research, including support for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine that has become among the most widely administered in the world.

The government’s decision to lengthen the interval between vaccine doses, to enable as many people as possible to get one shot, was “decisive and courageous,” and “significantly enhanced the pace of protection for the U.K. population,” the report said.

A fuller accounting of Britain’s response is not likely to occur for years. Public inquiries like the one promised by Mr. Johnson tend to be lengthy and exhaustive. An investigation into the deadly June 2017 fire at Grenfell Tower in London, for example, has yet to conclude.

Jonathan Ashworth, a lawmaker with the opposition Labour Party, said the Covid inquiry pointed to “monumental errors” by the government.

“At every step ministers ignored warnings, responded with complacency and were too slow to act,” he said in a statement. “We need a public inquiry now so mistakes of such tragic magnitude never repeated again.”

 

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Covid could be killing itself in japan and looking like japanese seem to have a protective enzyme that kills it etc.

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A variant here..a variant there...variants everywhere!

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Pantomime continues , still haven’t been able to see my girlfriend since this garbage started and this will probably ruin things further , Don’t want to live anymore 

 

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Omicron Covid cases found in Belgium, Germany and Czech Republic

More lockdowns looming....

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This pandemic is really like a never ending nightmare. Just when you think things are getting better, a new, potentially more dangerous variant appears...

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4 hours ago, Jase said:

This pandemic is really like a never ending nightmare. Just when you think things are getting better, a new, potentially more dangerous variant appears...

I'll defer to my favourite expert on the subject (a thread if you click on it).

Furthermore if it was really more dangerous we would be seeing India April esque signs from South Africa by now.

Even Devi Sridhar (who's basically like the Mana of Covid discussion) doesn't think there's an awful lot to be concerned about.

We have to be cautious but the sensational headlines the last couple of days have been awfully irresponsible.

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9 minutes ago, Tomo said:

I'll defer to my favourite expert on the subject (a thread if you click on it).

Furthermore if it was really more dangerous we would be seeing India April esque signs from South Africa by now.

Even Devi Sridhar (who's basically like the Mana of Covid discussion) doesn't think there's an awful lot to be concerned about.

We have to be cautious but the sensational headlines the last couple of days have been awfully irresponsible.

Trust me, Tomo. I haven't been reading just the headlines. Obviously I am curious just as anyone else about how dangerous this new variant is but at the same time, given the state we have been living for almost 2 years now because of the pandemic, forgive me if I'm feeling fearful/paranoid about this new variant. Nobody fucking wants to see those tough restrictions imposed again!

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5 minutes ago, Jase said:

Trust me, Tomo. I haven't been reading just the headlines. Obviously I am curious just as anyone else about how dangerous this new variant is but at the same time, given the state we have been living for almost 2 years now because of the pandemic, forgive me if I'm feeling fearful/paranoid about this new variant. Nobody fucking wants to see those tough restrictions imposed again!

I get the paranoia (I've been travelling on and off since May so I've had being caught out with Covid abroad hanging over me) but even if some variant turns up that totally evades immunity (which is obscenely unlikely) the vaccines can be modified accordingly within weeks.

All the signs so far suggest it doesn't even make people ill, fingers crossed it stays that way.

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9 minutes ago, Tomo said:

I get the paranoia (I've been travelling on and off since May so I've had being caught out with Covid abroad hanging over me) but even if some variant turns up that totally evades immunity (which is obscenely unlikely) the vaccines can be modified accordingly within weeks.

All the signs so far suggest it doesn't even make people ill, fingers crossed it stays that way.

Don't jinx it, Tomo. Don't. Jinx. It. 

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Cant be far off a new variant/mutant strain that spreads and kills a lot quicker, its just  just the way species adapt.

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4 hours ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Cant be far off a new variant/mutant strain that spreads and kills a lot quicker, its just  just the way species adapt.

This variant is meant to be more transmissible, so we have to hope the above doesn't come to fruition.