COVID-19/corona virus mega thread/prepping thread

[Ben]

The US Government now appears to be going with "lab leak".

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-origin-china-lab-leak-807b7b0a
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/02/26/comfortably-smug-wallops-media-who-smeared-the-right-for-knowing-covid-was-a-lab-leak-in-brutal-thread/

Looking at the statements at the twitchy link from when it was a "conspiracy theory" is kinda infuriating.

Particularly good example from the Editor in Chief at Scientific American (not a real science publication). "Heroic and urgent":

[MillCreek]

At first I thought 'what expertise does the Energy Department have in biology' but the WSJ article points out they run various national labs.

[Bogie]

Ivermectin sucks as an antiviral in advanced cases.
 
But... This isn't that hard...
 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35070575/
 
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34573986/

https://www.cureus.com/articles/111851-regular-use-of-ivermectin-as-prophylaxis-for-covid-19-led-up-to-a-92-reduction-in-covid-19-mortality-rate-in-a-dose-response-manner-results-of-a-prospective-observational-study-of-a-strictly-controlled-population-of-88012-subjects#!/

Most of what I'm seeing (in a rather cursory search, since I'm tired as hell and need to sleep so I can deal with people tomorrow) seems to say that "it seems to do something."
 
Which is better than nothing. And with few adverse effects, unlike the antivirals...
 
Most of the negative press I've seen has been akin to "Why do you have that fire extinguisher in your house? It won't save you if your whole house is on fire."

[MillCreek]

^^^I hope the DOD is either doing or funding research on ivermectin as treatment or prophylaxis to come up with definitive proof of efficacy. It occurs to me that the US military would have interest in a cheap, widely available drug to help maintain readiness, like using Mefloquine for malaria prophylaxis.

[Ben]

Follow the money.

https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/03/01/dr-marty-makary-tells-house-committee-what-happened-after-virologists-acquiesced-to-dr-fauci/

[Pb]

The US Government now appears to be going with "lab leak".

It sounds like the USA needs to get compensation from China.

[RocketMan]

It sounds like the USA needs to get compensation from China.

Brandon:  "President Xi, here's a trillion dollars to atone for our country being so damaged by your benevolent Covid-19 virus.  Please, may we have another?  I promise we will do better next time."

[Ben]

Biden wants $1.6 billion to use to recover funds that went to fraudulent covid relief claims. We'd probably be better off investing the $1.6 billion in revolving six month T-Bills and recovering the money that way.

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2023/03/02/great-news-biden-set-to-ask-congress-for-1-6-billion-in-taxpayer-money-to-fight-covid-relief-fraud/

[WLJ]

Fauci and the dems who kept this hidden need to be in prison if true

Dr. Anthony Fauci commissioned a February 2020 paper to disprove the possibility that COVID originated in a lab — only to pretend he nothing to do with the study at a White House news conference weeks later.

Newly-released emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic show the former head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases both commissioned and had final approval on a scientific paper which claimed it was 'improbable' that the virus leaked out of a lab in Wuhan, China.

Just a few weeks later, he stood next to then-President Donald Trump at a press conference and cited that very paper as evidence that the idea of a lab leak was implausible - and said he did not know the authors, despite sitting down with them days before.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11824905/Emails-Dr-Fauci-commissioned-February-2020-paper-disprove-COVID-leaked-Wuhan-lab.html

[RoadKingLarry]

Fauci and the dems who kept this hidden need to be in prison if true

I'd be OK with execution after a proper trial in this case. Amounts to treason in my book.

[WLJ]

More

    NEW – CNN ex-boss Jeff Zucker reportedly "ordered" staff not to probe COVID lab leak theory because it was a Trump talking point.https://t.co/J7dVVHGVgH

    — Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) March 6, 2023

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2023/03/06/gets-worse-cnn-ex-boss-jeff-zucker-ordered-staff-not-to-probe-covid-lab-leak-theory-because-of-trump/

[bedlamite]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11824905/Emails-Dr-Fauci-commissioned-February-2020-paper-disprove-COVID-leaked-Wuhan-lab.html

ETA: didn't realize it was already posted

[Jim147]

We need the biggest woodchipper ever built.

[zxcvbob]

I'd be OK with execution after a proper trial in this case. Amounts to treason in my book.

I don't think it's treason; that's rather specific.  Crimes against humanity, maybe?

[Bogie]

And NOTHING will come of this, because there won't be news coverage outside of the "conspiracy" channels. And the folks who are still wearing masks and gloves will keep going full Karen on those around them.

[WLJ]

Wow, they didn't even vote 100% in 1941 to declare war on Japan. 388-1

House votes 419-0 to force Biden administration to declassify ALL information about COVID origins and the Wuhan lab leaks: Bill now heads to President's desk
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11845001/House-votes-419-0-declassify-information-COVID-origins.html

[K Frame]

"Wow, they didn't even vote 100% in 1941 to declare war on Japan. 388-1"

Jeanette Rankin.

She was the only person to vote against US entry into World War I and the war against Japan. When she cast her vote she was booed and hissed on the House floor.

When the declaration of war was voted against Germany members of both parties convinced her to abstain so that the vote would be unanimous.

[WLJ]

"Wow, they didn't even vote 100% in 1941 to declare war on Japan. 388-1"

Jeanette Rankin.

She was the only person to vote against US entry into World War I and the war against Japan. When she cast her vote she was booed and hissed on the House floor.

When the declaration of war was voted against Germany members of both parties convinced her to abstain so that the vote would be unanimous.

She also voted against declaring war in the 1st WW. she wasn't quite so alone in that though. 373-50

[K Frame]

She also voted against declaring war in the 1st WW. she wasn't quite so alone in that though. 373-50

Yeah... that's what I said. Read my post again, Mr. Observant.

[WLJ]

Yeah... that's what I said. Read my post again, Mr. Observant.

I blame a cat distracting me.
No really

That and going back and forth between too many open tabs

[Lennyjoe]

Has anyone even caught Covid lately? 

[WLJ]

Has anyone even caught Covid lately?

My daughter a couple of months ago.

[dogmush]

My niece two weeks ago.  Weird what with all the precautions Mordor on the Potomac is still enforcing.   

[Ben]

I wouldn't even know how you would come up with a current number. I guess it depends on where you live, but even the commie media here isn't running stories about getting tested or anything anymore.

There's a good chance a bunch of people are getting milder covid with cold-like symptoms and calling it a cold. Or they might just have a cold. Without the overzealous testing, who knows?

[Perd Hapley]

I wouldn't even know how you would come up with a current number. I guess it depends on where you live, but even the commie media here isn't running stories about getting tested or anything anymore.

There's a good chance a bunch of people are getting milder covid with cold-like symptoms and calling it a cold. Or they might just have a cold. Without the overzealous testing, who knows?

I think a lot of state and county governments still publish numbers online. My county is currently reporting an average of 89 new cases per day.