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  1. It was a meme that appeared during his first term. Quite old.
  2. 107 years after, we still don't really know where Spanish Flu came from. There is circumstantial evidence for various theories. One of the more recent theories, and probably the most likely, is that the strain emerged in China during 1916-17. This was in a region that France and Britain recruited coolies from. A unit transected Canada into Kansas in 1917. They likely infected American troops gathering for deployment to Europe. It might have remained just another flu strain but for timing. It reached the Western Front in the winter of 1918. The long war had come to an end. Casualty clearinng stations on both sides were filled to capacity with wounded men, but also men with trench foot, blood infection. At the end of the War, the inclination was to clear the hospitals ASAP, leaving relatively fit healthy men in trenches, in encampments. The virus ran through this group, resulting in reinfections, essentially training a superbug. Then you have mass movement of refugees going home in multiple directions. Nearly every pandemic in human history is associated with some change in human behaviour. COVID-19 will probably end up being the Globalisation Pandemic; a Pandemic enabled by rapid mass ransportation, and corporate links between a fairly obscure Chinese provincial city and the European car and textile industries. The virus did a number in Wuhan, but didn't become a broader China issue until later. But it really got out of hand when it hit Italy (a more virulant version hit Europe than hit the US West coast; the US West coast strain was essentially due to movements of Chinese diaspora. But in Europe, it was industry executives in Italy and Germany, coupled by the ski season. Many of the early cases in the UK were associated with a medical conference in Singapore, where some of the attendees afterwards returned to the UK after a cheeky ski holiday with mates in Austria. I've worked in BSL-2 through BSL-4 labs since 1988, so I am very aware of their construction and operation. I'm aware of the physical controls that are on top of process controls used in BSL-4 lab. The Zoonitic origin is still the most plausible. You can never rule any theory out for anything, unless you have evidence to discount that theory. But you can rank likelihood based on a range of factors. The second most likely theory is a lab leak, but not from the research labs. The Wuhan Institute was also a reference lab. Reference labs serve to validate the findings of hospital labs, but are also involved in routine disease surveillance. Reference labs don't seek to propagate pathogen. Consequently these labs might be BSL 2 or 2+. They would be receiving thousands of specimens per day for further investigation. Its worth remembering that every city on the planet has at least one hospital, and that one hospital will have a pathology laboratory, also handling thousands of patient specimens a day. Two of the UK's BSL4 high containment labs are in central London. If lab leaks were as easy as some suppose, then we would be knee deep in outbreaks; there are far worse operated path labs in other countries besides China, eg some of the Ebola labs in West Africa were pretty grim.
  3. The Irish community in Great Britain also suffered following IRA attacks. ie Maguire 7, Guildford 4. Your opening senetence is deliberately misleading, in order to sew discord, and pursue your own agenda. You should have stated;
  4. Found dead in his Tesla....... Stories circulating that he was found before he was sacked. But why are top Russians still driving American Teslas. Musk surely has the means to brick every single one, preferebly about 8am local time, on a cold wet November. Plus Tesla will have a full record of owners.
  5. Glad you are hugely supportive of politicians being completely transparent about their educational records. https://time.com/5540152/donald-trump-michael-cohen-academic-records/
  6. Anders Behring Breivik, the loon who killed those kids because of his politics, complained about the miserable state of his prison cell in Norway. Norway has a very low rate of crime. There is a balance to be struck. Regimes with the most terrible prison conditions still have crime, usually lots of crime. Saudi Arabia has been executing people in incredible numbers. I had the misfortune to watch one of these executions. You're driven to some random street corner, hauled out of the truck, crowd gathers, off with your head, hopefully in one swipe. Yet people still smuggle paltry amounts of cannabis into the country. Incarceration yes, state mandated cruelty no. My late father was a hang 'em high type. As part of his civic duty, he became a Independent Custody Visitor. He changed his views. The voluntary role involves members of the public going into police stations and doing a welfare check. He was ex-military, and expected the station to be run to a military standard. ie those in the cells would be treated firmly but fair. Te loss of liberty and a bare cell should be enough for most to ruminate on what he did. He found the cells at full capacity with basically children. The Courts Service was unable to process them, and the syp. The system was backed up. However the sergeants in charge of the custody suites still have a job to do, and standards to enforce. He found kids left in cells in feces encrusted clothes. Being handed urine soaked blankets, or no blankets, in winter. No hot food, no hot drinks. He spoke to some of these boys, and realised what a subclass they came from. It was difficult to not have some sympathy for them. Remembering his army days, he shared a ciggie with some of them, and they seemed grateful. He bollocked the duty sergeant for not doing his job. There was no excuse. Seemed to work, because the next time he visited, the cops had sorted things out. We had hundreds of years of prison reform, for good reason. Turning back the clock is retrograde and will simply worsen crime.
  7. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/epstein-memo-justice-department-maga-1235380042/
  8. Don't forget Putin's previous career as a topless male model. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/sochi-hotel-guests-complain-about-topless-portraits-of-putin-in-rooms
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  10. The cause of death will no doubt be announced that unfortunately he fell on his bullet while accidently falling from his apartment window, into his Tesla. Some interesting insight and speclation https://minczifra.substack.com/p/on-the-death-of-a-chinovnik?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2412839&post_id=167776057&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=b0spt&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email He was dead before he was fired. He was part of a massive corruption. Speculation from the Russian Blogosphere that Putin has lost control.
  11. Well no, retard. I posted a response. You had two choices. 1. Ignore it. 2. Read it, respond, either by agreeing with the points made, or disagreeing. But no, you went for the retard option number 3, by googling for an Internet Acronym used commonly in veiled insults and threats, to earn Forum Likes and Cred. You are the one who threw out the insult first, acting like a child rather than an adult. I treated you like a child considering you responded in a manner akin to a 12 year old. If you lack the ability, through a medical condition, to read more than 1 paragraph at a time, fair enough. The current US Health Secretary is launching an urgent investigation into why America alone has seen an explosion of diagnosed ADHD and Autism cases. FAS is a common cause when the condition is diagnosed in adults. I think he's misunderstanding the data though. Autism is at the same rate as its always been, but now its diagnosed more frequently. Before, there was no diagnosis.
  12. Supporters of the President losing their minds Aged like milk
  13. Its an accidental misspell of an increasingly common homophone, MAGATs. Internet analysis shows interest or usage of the term in a political context started in July 2024.
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