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@JamesSurowiecki Moral hazard for one. Not allowing flights from China around the world in January for another. Not listening to the WHO saying no evidence of human transmission in Jan 2020. Getting realistic about dangers from lab leaks, the list goes on and on. thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

How would knowing that Covid came from a lab - assuming for the sake of argument that it did, and that we could know that with certainty - have saved lives? What would have been different about our response?

@WashTimes When the fox is in charge of the henhouse.

CIA scientists repeatedly concluded that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Chinese lab -- and were pushed to revise those findings until the conclusion disappeared, a whistleblower told Congress Wednesday. trib.al/RvKcXut

@Mr_Husky1 A great man and Statesman. Thatcher thought he was a genuis. Idolised within the Intelligence community. We need more Reagans.

"On March 30, 1981, just sixty-nine days into his presidency, Ronald Reagan was wheeled into George Washington University Hospital with a bullet wound inches from his heart — and what the doctors and nurses who treated him that day remembered for the rest of their lives was not the gravity of the moment but the extraordinary grace of the man at the center of it, cracking jokes from the gurney, telling the surgeons he hoped they were all Republicans, and whispering to Nancy when she arrived at his bedside that he had forgotten to duck. Reagan was seventy years old, the oldest president in American history to that point, and he was closer to death than the public was told for many years — the bullet had lodged within an inch of his heart and he had lost more than half his blood volume — and yet the spirit he brought to those terrifying hours in the hospital became, in the minds of the American people, something larger than one man's personal courage: it became a kind of national exhale, a reminder that optimism was not naivety but a form of strength, that a man could face the worst the world could offer and respond with warmth and humor and an unshakeable belief that things would be all right. Reagan's recovery was remarkable by any medical standard, but the doctors who treated him insisted that his physical vitality — he was an avid horseman and outdoorsman who had kept himself genuinely fit throughout his life — was matched by something harder to measure and equally important: a psychological resilience, a refusal to be diminished by fear, that they had simply never encountered in quite the same form before. He was back at his desk within weeks, and the letters that poured into the White House from ordinary Americans during his recovery ran into the millions — handwritten notes from farmers and factory workers and schoolchildren and retirees, people who felt, in some way they found difficult to articulate, that Reagan's refusal to be broken was their refusal too, that his recovery belonged to all of them. It was perhaps the moment that defined his presidency more than any policy or speech — the moment when the country saw not the politician but the man, and found in him something they genuinely loved."

@historigins She transformed herself into what Hollywood wanted. That takes talent.

In 1942, sixteen-year-old Norma Jeane married her neighbor to avoid being placed in foster care, long before the world knew her as Marilyn Monroe

@ThomasSowell Not sure Mozart was unhappy.

Charlie Munger: “Mozart was the greatest musician to ever live, yet his life was full of unhappiness and resentment. He overspent his income and was full of jealousy. All you've got to do is learn from Mozart.”

@Math_files He could have bought a razor and a decent suit

Grigori Perelman, the mathematician who declined both the Fields Medal and the $1,000,000 Clay Prize.

@forallcurious Any parallel universe is just part of this universe. There's only one.

Physicist Michio Kaku says dark matter isn’t matter at all. It is gravity leaking from a parallel universe.

@Patrickwebb The Australian reported this in 2023 . theaustralian.com.au/world/cia-whis…

BREAKING: Financial incentives were allegedly given to 6 of the 7 intelligence officials on the COVID-19 discovery team to change their assessment on the origins of COVID-19, per CIA whistleblower.

@GustavoAdolf_ Liked him in The Edge, in the Canadian wilderness. You'd never think he was once a drunk.

A los 30 años, borracho y sin trabajo, me senté en el borde de la cama y pensé: "Anthony, no puedes seguir así". Había llegado a Londres desde Gales con un sueño: ser actor. Pero el sueño se convirtió en pesadilla. El alcohol me controlaba. Perdía papeles, mi mujer me dejó, mis amigos me abandonaron. Pasaba los días en bares oscuros y las noches en camerinos vacíos. Una noche, en 1967, entré en una reunión de Alcohólicos Anónimos. Tenía miedo. No del alcohol, sino de mí mismo. De la debilidad que sentía al pedir ayuda. No bebí un solo trago en 57 años. Después llegó la sobriedad. Y con ella, el trabajo. "El hombre elefante", "Los restos del día", "El Silencio de los Corderos... un Oscar y muchos premios. Una carrera que todavía hoy continúa. Pero la fama no curó las heridas. Tuve que aprender a vivir conmigo mismo a aceptar mi pasado y a perdonarme. Hace unos años, durante la pandemia, grabé un video que se hizo viral. Hablaba de no rendirse. Hablaba de la vejez, de la soledad, del valor de seguir adelante. No lo hice por fama. Lo hice porque aquel chico de 30 años necesitaba oír esas palabras. Si hoy te sientes perdido, si el alcohol o cualquier otra droga te está destruyendo, pide ayuda. Yo lo hice. Y aquí estoy, medio siglo después, sobrio y contándotelo. No hay vergüenza en caer. La hay en no levantarse. Anthony Hopkins🇬🇧

@BillMelugin_ @FoxNews Vacuous CIA PR statement. 'What's he doing there, when it doesnt look good on us?'

BREAKING: CIA statement to @FoxNews on the active CIA employee testifying in the Senate Homeland Security Committee this AM on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic & a possible government coverup. “The Committee acted in bad faith by subpoenaing an Agency officer for testimony today without notifying CIA, despite having already obtained closed-door testimony from the individual previously. The witness testifying today is not appearing as a whistleblower in pursuit of the truth, but instead in response to the subpoena issued by Chairman Paul. This proceeding amounts to nothing more than dishonest political theater masquerading as a congressional hearing. As the CIA has already assessed, COVID-19 most likely originated from a lab leak, and efforts to undermine that conclusion are disingenuous.” – Liz Lyons, CIA Director of Public Affairs

@SenAshleyMoody The extreme left has always operated as a clique, if you dont tow the party line you simply get ostracised and marked as a non-team player, regardless of any merit.

Jarring to witness not a single Democrat participate in today’s hearing. Clearly, they do not care about what happened under their leadership during COVID.

@SenRandPaul @FoxNews Too much power from too many conflicted bureaucrats. Some things never change.

For years, the Left insisted we “follow the science”, but when CIA scientists concluded COVID came from the lab, Anthony Fauci stepped in and overruled them. This whistleblower testimony reveals how Fauci was influencing the outcome. @FoxNews

@DrNeilStone All evidence of course, in this hantavirus episode, points to a rat leak somewhere in the field in South America.

@DrNeilStone Viruses will leak, whether from rats or labs, they dont know the difference. Lancet: There have been 309 lab acquired infections from 51 pathogens identified between 2000-2021, published here: thelancet.com/journals/lanmi…

I believe in the rat leak theory of Hantavirus

@FondOfBeetles Some aspects might be explained by a contagious period that's high but relatively short, long incubation but only contagious very near/once symptoms appear for a few days before patient either recovers, is too sick to move around, or dies.

On hantavirus #ANDV #hantavirus I think the Andes hantavirus data is being misread right now. Claims are circulating that the evidence doesn’t seem to support. I want to walk through them carefully.

@LibbySnowflak 'there won't be a Shire, Pippin'

@Quazardragon @SecKennedy @US_FDA Dihydrogen monoxide kills you if you get too much of it into your lungs, but your body can't survive more than several days without it. Nature is more subtle than 'no, not, neither'.

@SecKennedy @US_FDA No chemical is safe to add to our food. We are not hazardous waste disposals and neither are our animals.

Huge MAHA win! We are raising the bar on food safety. Just because a chemical is widely used doesn’t mean it’s safe. @US_FDA will now continuously review chemicals in our food — and act faster when risks appear.

@SDSLLC_USA thinking with your feelings isnt reliable.

Can anyone explain to me how a cruise ship with a few Hantavirus infected people has now spread to so many different countries that had nothing to with this cruise ship or even coming to port in their countries and how it's spreading in the United States so fast? This feels like it's been planned and is intentional and if that's the case, I want to know who is going to be held accountable for it?

@TheAliceSmith In communism, only those who belonged to the 'workers' social class had any rights. Of these, only those who followed this communist ideology had any rights. In both cases, the State had absolute power to enforce the ideology, economically, socially, and politically.

Yes, National Socialists: only those who belonged to the State's idea of a superior race had any rights. Of these, only those who followed this racial ideology had any rights. Communists did the same, but replaced 'race' with 'social class' and adherence to communist ideology

We can argue about whether the National Socialists were socialists. But let’s shift the debate. Were the National Socialists statists? Did they - like the Communists - believe the state is the centre of all economic, social and political power and control?