April 18, 20232 yr Yea it's super weird that the insurance companies, who take on all the risk for unvaccinated patients' healthcare costs, would try to incentivize the use of a preventative measure that would save them tons of money. Gee, I wonder if they might even have similar programs for other vaccines, or cancer screenings, or just regular physicals and blood work? Man, I hope that's not the case otherwise that might torpedo the entire argument and make Massie look like a gigantic moron for leaning into some conspiratard nonsense rather than acknowledging these are long-standing, well-established healthcare programs.
April 18, 20232 yr 1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said: Yea it's super weird that the insurance companies, who take on all the risk for unvaccinated patients' healthcare costs, would try to incentivize the use of a preventative measure that would save them tons of money. Gee, I wonder if they might even have similar programs for other vaccines, or cancer screenings, or just regular physicals and blood work? Man, I hope that's not the case otherwise that might torpedo the entire argument and make Massie look like a gigantic moron for leaning into some conspiratard nonsense rather than acknowledging these are long-standing, well-established healthcare programs.
April 19, 20232 yr 🤔 A new report released by the U.S. Senate has concluded that the COVID-19 virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, originated in a Chinese laboratory, but was leaked unintentionally. The 301-page report, produced by a team that included Dr. Robert Kadlec, a former government health official who played a key role in developing COVID-19 vaccines, and staffers on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, was released on April 17 by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Ky.), a member of the Senate Health Committee, who chairs the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security. The report states that the "preponderance of information supports the plausibility of an unintentional research-related incident that likely resulted from failures of biosafety containment during SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-related research.” NO AMNESTY
April 19, 20232 yr Huh, a study backed by the GOP written by Republicans, and it contains lies? The GOP study claims "there have been no documented positive SARS-CoV-2 animal samples from any Wuhan wet market." Yet weeks before this study was released this was published: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00998-y Positive swabs from the wet market animals. The GOP study itself also acknowledges: three data points do present themselves to support the zoonotic origin theory. First, approximately 33 percent of the earliest known human COVID-19 cases (with symptom onset dates in mid- to late-December 2019) were associated with the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. Second, several animal species susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 were sold live and in poor animal welfare conditions at the market. Finally, the identification of genetic sequences of raccoon dogs in samples taken from the market in early 2020 confirm that this susceptible intermediate host was at the market at the time of the outbreak. As noted, "there is no data…associating SARS-CoV-2 with the presence of any of these animals.” (the last line is false per the Nature article) Later in the GOP report when discussing the wet market: Of the stalls in the southwestern section of the Huanan Market, the study identifies Stall 29 in row six as particularly notable. Stall 29 has "game” in its title and "lists game retail as a service in the business directory”. Its owner was one of two vendors fined for illegal hedgehog sales in May 7, 2019. While there was no record of a human COVID- 19 case associated with the stall, the stall itself had five positive environmental samples. The GOP study also goes on to say that all four sewer drains in the wet market tested positive for Covid. So the GOP authors claim in the introduction that no animals tested positive bury the fact that positive samples were found in stalls at the wet market. The paper merely determines a lab leak is plausible. It puts forward zero direct evidence supporting that, only scores of pages outlining other instances of lab leaks to try and paint a picture of how it would be possible. While the zoonotic origin hypothesis has some holes, there is circumstantial evidence supporting it in positive samples from the wet market and the earliest known outbreak being proximal. Evidence for the lab leak origin amounts to "accidents happen so we can't rule it out." Finally this was not a study released by the US Senate. It was released by a Senator and written by a team of Republicans. Hardly the most objective start.
April 19, 20232 yr Technically speaking, it's not a lie to say there were no positive samples from animals. What they found were trace samples of the virus that also contained animal DNA. Samples taken from stalls known to be selling highly susceptible species like raccoon dogs and bamboo rats which matched the DNA from the samples. Which would be one hell of a coincidence if the animals weren't actually infected, but it's technically not a direct sample from an animal. Either way though, it's no secret that this GOP report is absolute garbage from a scientific basis, riddled with errors, and already widely panned from the scientific community.
April 25, 20232 yr Florida‘a surgeon general personally altered a study to fit DeSantis’s anti-vax agenda. DeSantis touted this everywhere he went. Quote "What’s clear from the previous analysis, and even more clear from Dr. L’s edits, is that absolutely there was a political motivation behind the final analysis that was produced,”
April 27, 20232 yr "From a broad public-health standpoint, at the population level, masks work at the margins — maybe 10 percent. But for an individual who religiously wears a mask, a well-fitted KN95 or N95, it’s not at the margin. It really does work.”
May 4, 20232 yr 11 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: Comments did not disappoint. We are a nation of morons.
June 3, 20232 yr 9 hours ago, toolg said: Covid is back! Oooh, let me be first. Must be from all those unvaccinated migrants.
June 4, 20232 yr On 6/3/2023 at 7:20 AM, Talkingbirds said: Oooh, let me be first. Must be from all those unvaccinated migrants ILLEGAL ALIENS. fixed your post... no charge.
June 4, 20232 yr 26 minutes ago, greenskeeper said: fixed your post... no charge. Yo mamma is an alien
June 14, 20232 yr Shocking First People Sickened By COVID-19 Were Chinese Scientists At Wuhan Institute Of Virology, Say US Government Sources The three scientists were engaged in "gain-of-function” research on SARS-like coronaviruses when they fell ill
June 14, 20232 yr Thanks for the hot tip, Sarah. Well cited and corroborated source material, as we've come to expect.
June 14, 20232 yr I mean, it's been known for years: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wuhan-lab-staff-sought-hospital-care-before-covid-19-outbreak-disclosed-wsj-2021-05-23/
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