Tag: nCoV

How Trump Is Losing His Base

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

How Trump Is Losing His Base

It is critical to listen for what they did not say: “What an ass I was to vote for that guy in the last election.” They did not regret or say they made a mistake. All working Americans have been in financial trouble since the 2008 crash, and rising health care problems and disabilities, health care costs and deductibles, and empowered insurance and pharmaceutical companies were an explosive brew. It is why many working people voted for Trump in 2016. It is why many working-class Democrats of color and millennials failed to turn out and defend Obamacare in midterm elections and in 2016. All these voters had reasons for those choices.

It’s now looking like the lockdowns may have been a huge mistake

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

It’s now looking like the lockdowns may have been a huge mistake

For many, that economic damage has been of Great Depression proportions. Restaurants and small businesses have been closed forever, even before the last three months of “mostly peaceful” urban rioting. Losses have been concentrated on those with low income and little wealth, while lockdowns have added tens of billions to the net worth of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Leaked Lugar Center Docs on DoD Study of Novel Coronaviruses from 2017-2019

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

H/T: American Everyman

New data leak from the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia (Archived).

IIn 2017 the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) launched a $6.5 million project on bats and coronaviruses in Western Asia (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Jordan) with the Lugar Center being the local laboratory for this genetic research. The duration of the program is 5 years and has been implemented by the non-profit US organisation Eco Health Alliance.

The project’s objectives are: 1. Capture and non-lethally sample 5,000 bats in 5-year period (2017-2022) 2. Collect 20,000 samples (i.e. oral, rectal swabs and/or feces, and blood) and screen for coronaviruses using consensus PCR at regional labs in Georgia and Jordan. According to the project presentation, Eco Health Alliance already sampled 270 bats of 9 species in three Western Asian countries: 90 individual bats in Turkey (Aug 2018), Georgia (Sept 2018), and Jordan (Oct 2018).

Coincidentally, the same Pentagon contractor tasked with the US DoD bat-research program – Eco Health Alliance, USA, also collected bats and isolated coronaviruses along with Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. EcoHealth Alliance received a $3.7 million grant from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to collect and study coronaviruses in bats in China from 2014 to 2019.

Related:

Project G-2101: Pentagon biolab discovered MERS and SARS-like coronaviruses in bats (Archived).

US diplomats involved in trafficking of human blood and pathogens for secret military program (Archived).

Against Conspiracy Theories

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Against Conspiracy Theories

This is a follow-up to my widely-shared piece ‘The Reaction of the Left to Lockdown’, in which I criticised dissidents and radicals, like Media Lens, Noam Chomsky, John Zerzan and others for uncritically accepting the response to the coronavirus. As I pointed out there, I don’t know why it happened, and as I point out here, I’m not particularly interested in why. I have almost zero interest in speculating about the motives of world governments and elite players and I’m not an expert on epidemiology or virology. All I am interested in — and have been interested in since March — is that it happened, that it is still happening, and whether it should be questioned or stopped.