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Thank God for the backbone of a man named Ron DeSantis who stood firmly against the insanity of COVID tyranny.

@bluesky That’s cool, but you’ll suspend accounts that state scientific facts: Men cannot become women. It’s a left-wing echo chamber and insane asylum.

@Dexerto The easiest way for them to make it cheaper would be by lowering the cost

1. Just because Ralph Baric's research was essential to creating the "ecosystem" that resulted in SARS-CoV-2, doesn't mean it was created in his lab. 2. Just because Ralph Baric can claim SARS-CoV-2 wasn't created in his lab, doesn't mean he bears no responsibility for its creation.

Was it the sorcerer or the apprentice? There’s a new theory in the Covid-origin debate being pushed by some people, namely that the virus was probably created in America by Ralph Baric’s research group at the Chapel Hill campus of the University of North Carolina - and sent to China from there. It’s not plausible for many reasons. But it plays into the hands of the Chinese government, who may be surreptitiously pushing it through their friends in the west to confuse the issue and distract from the evidence. That evidence strongly suggests that there was indeed a lab leak but it was in Wuhan and it was of a virus assembled in Wuhan. Ralph Baric did collaborate closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), it is true, and he pioneered the synthesis of chimeric sarbecoviruses and testing these on humanized mice - which his Wuhan counterpart, Shi Zhengli, later began doing in her own laboratory but at low biosafety level. That much is on the record. Baric has steadfastly refused to share his email correspondence and his university has gone to court to prevent its release. He has also refused to testify in open session before Congress so far. This is a mistake on his part because it is now fuelling speculation that he created virus. He should reveal what he knows to clear the air. Here are three reasons that it is highly unlikely that Baric made SARS-CoV-2 in a North Carolina lab. First, sarbecoviruses do not exist in the wild in the Americas. The horseshoe bats that host them are only found in the old world. In order to work on SARS-related viruses at all, Baric has to import them or their digital sequences from China – in his case from Wuhan. Where would he have got the backbone virus from to do the experiment? After all, the WIV and Baric were competitors as well as collaborators. Baric has admitted that the WIV would not have shared their most interesting strains with him, much less the novel lineage 4 viruses which they obscured in their 2019 paper. Second, even if they did send him the information from which to assemble SARS-CoV-2, rather than doing it themselves, why on earth would he then ship the completed chimeric sarbecovirus back to Wuhan for testing? Or send the digital recipe for them to copy? That would have been pointless as well as highly irresponsible. Baric may be guilty of encouraging foolish experiments and concealing his own role in collaborating with Wuhan, but there is no evidence for any of this. Third, the notorious “Defuse” proposal for inserting a furin cleavage site into a sarbecovirus for the first time in 2018 stated clearly that the work would mostly be done in Wuhan, because it could be done at a lower biosafety level there to save costs. (A shocking revelation in itself.) An early draft of the proposal even includes an exchange in which Baric is told he won’t get to do most of the work, and he protests at the low biosafety level used in Wuhan, saying it will “freak out” US scientists.

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Target does WHAT?

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Actor Vince Vaughn calls out late-night comedians, says people like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and others have all become the “SAME SHOW.” “It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f*cking class I didn’t want to take.” THEO VON: “A lot of the late shows have struggled.” VINCE VAUGHN: “Oh, bro.” THEO: “Because… the only person they could make fun of at a certain point was just like white redneck kind of people. And it f*cking tanked [ratings].” VINCE: “I think that the talk shows, to a large part, became really agenda-based.” “They were gonna evangelize people to what they thought… It felt like they had an agenda.” “It stopped being funny, and it started feeling like I was in a f*cking class I didn’t want to take.” “They all became the same show.” “And they all became so about their politics and who’s good and who’s bad.” “Imagine sitting next to someone like that on a f*cking plane. You’d be like, how do I get out of this f*cking seat?” THEO: “I would FART right next to them.” VINCE: “You’d fart your way out of it?” THEO: “Yeah, I would. I would for sure.”

I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything. ― Norm Macdonald, 2016

FBI agents have to retire at 57, air traffic controllers at 56, and pilots at 65. But somehow demented 70 and 80 year olds running the country is totally fine. Make it make sense.

The growth is the accomplishment of the people of Argentina. Milei is simply removing the regulatory hurdles and state interventions to allow them to flourish.

It's not that Delta is suspending this "special congressional desk service" that should be newsworthy. It's that such a service existed to begin with.

Drake Maye was so special when he was at UNC

This post about former #Patriots running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis popped up on my timeline from @VintageFB. It looked familiar because I posted it 6 months ago. Stealing posts and taking credit for other people's work/research stinks. Be original, or give credit. Simple.

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Milton Friedman: “Why have we had such a decline in moral climate?” “A major factor has been a change in the philosophy which has been dominant, a change from belief in individual responsibility to belief in social responsibility.”

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The new revelation significantly raises the likelihood that Baric is the creator of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic. ~Jim Haslam & Jeffrey Sachs Did Ralph Baric at UNC Create SARS-CoV-2? brownstone.org/articles/did-r…

Drew Bledsoe drops an insane dime in the bucket to Shaun Jefferson as the two connect for the 68 yard score. (1999)