[snakeoil]

https://www.wired.com/story/nathan-wolf ... ter-recirc

in September 2019, the Trump administration canceled funding for Predict, the USAID disease surveillance program that had been working to identify dangerous viruses—including work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.)

This a well written and well researched article. A lot of it has to do with insurance but the meat of the article is about the fact that we could have blunted in impacts of covid-19.

Munich RE and Swiss RE are mentioned in the article. These are reinsurance companies that assume some of the insurance risk of smaller companies.

[sillydaddy]

Funny how PREDICT was widely criticized as being ineffective in their virus hunting...
So when their funding ran out and the Trump administration did not renew their $200M budget the COVID19 immediately broke out ...traced back to a Wuhan lab PREDICT had been working with.

[johnforbes]

Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases had shelled out a total of $7.4 million to the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab

[elklindo69]

Let's all congratulate President Stupid J. Dumbass for bringing 15 cases of COVID-19 all the way down to 5 million infections and 160,000 thousand deaths.

Nicely done you incompetent fuck.........

[sillydaddy]

Yep...!! And not a single Democrat among them..!

[sillydaddy]

Because the Democrats all wear masks, right elk?
And the reason I say that ..
the media has yet to mask shame a Democrat.

[johnforbes]

Follow the science, with Fauci saying on Feb 17, 2020 there was absolutely no reason "whatsoever" to wear a mask unless you were a doc or nurse.

Then, in April, Fauci said masks were essential.

Then, at a ball game, Fauci did not wear a mask.

What science!

[divermouse]

and on october 14 2019 i has sushi for lunch... without a mask, so what!
the big question is, what what time do i go for sushi TODAY, in my mask to protect others I may come in contact with for THEIR safety... Because it is the moral thing to do. get some whit... not wizz-wit

[johnforbes]

Set aside the pandemic issues.

Certain people who look like Clowntoker should always wear masks for esthetic reaons.

[elklindo69]

I don't think any mask can protect people from the stench of John Forbes steaming piles of bullshit.....

[johnforbes]

After the many and various ways in which I've improved Elkin's squalid life, I'm hurt.

[elklindo69]

Trump: It is what it is....

[johnforbes]

I would respond, but I cannot see through the teardrops.

Elkin's prior remark wounded me -- cut me to the quick, as it were.

When will I ever be able to cope, and not mope, relating to Elkindope?

[elklindo69]

John Forbes looks at the mirror and sees an intellect.

The mirror looks backs and sees an ignoramus.

So what's the latest Trump wonder COVID-19 drug?

[johnforbes]

2 billion people took early HCQ.

700 million did not, including the US.

Those who took HCQ early had a 78 percent less chance of death from covid19.