Homeland Security denies entry to top ranked tennis player, for no reason that I can figure out. Covid-19 is over and Fauci lied about everything. Sure, some people will get a Covid variant. People at great risk can keep getting booster shots and wearing masks, but the rest of us have moved on.
Homeland Security may wish to finish building the border wall and get serious about the legal and illegal immigration system. They certainly aren’t acting in a way that benefits the American people.
The way the Covid-19 pandemic was handled was a shit show. It’s over, but we have to do better than just never speak of it again. Questions should be openly discussed so we learn. The Norfold Group put together a reasonable set of questions. I don’t care who funded them or the background of the doctors. The report is so reasonable, it may become hard to find, so I’m backing the Questions for Covid Commission by Norfolk Group Full Report .
The executive summary provides ten concise questions, and they are:
What could have been done to better protect older high-risk Americans, so that fewer of them died or were hospitalized due to COVID-19?
Why was there widespread questioning of infection-acquired immunity by government officials and some prominent scientists? How did this hinder our fight against the virus?
Why were schools and universities closed despite early evidence about the enormous age-gradient in COVID-19 mortality, early data showing that schools were not major sources of spread, and early evidence that school closures would cause enormous collateral damage to the education and mental health of children and young adults?
Why was there an almost exclusive focus on COVID-19 to the detriment of recognizing and mitigating collateral damage on other aspects of public health, including but not limited to, cancer screening and treatment, diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases, childhood vaccinations, and mental health?
Why did the CDC fail to collect timely data to properly monitor and understand the pandemic? Why did we have to rely on studies from private initiatives and from other countries to understand the behavior of the virus and the effects of therapeutics, including vaccines?
Why was there so much emphasis and trust in complex epidemiological models, which are by nature unreliable during the middle of an epidemic, with unknown input parameters and questionable assumptions?
Could therapeutic trials have been run in a more timely manner? How was information on drug effectiveness and safety disseminated to doctors and clinicians? Were effective therapeutics easily accessible across the population? How did certain drugs become heavily politicized?
Why did vaccine randomized trials not evaluate mortality, hospitalization, and transmission as primary endpoints? Why were they terminated early? Why were there so few studies from the highest-quality CDC and FDA vaccine safety systems?
Why was the USA slow to approve and roll out critical COVID-19 testing capacity? Why was there more emphasis on testing young asymptomatic individuals than on testing to better protect older high-risk Americans? Why was so much effort spent on contact-tracing efforts?
Why was there an emphasis on community masking and mask mandates, which had weak or no data to support them, at the expense of efficient and critical COVID-19 mitigation efforts? Why did the CDC or NIH not fund large randomized trials to evaluate the efficacy and potential harms of mask wearing? Why didn’t policy recommendations change after the publication of randomized trial data from Denmark and Bangladesh which showed no or minimal efficacy of mask wearing by the public?
Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origin
Fringe Theory of Coronavirus Origin
Speaking on Fox News, Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, raised the possibility that the virus had originated in a high-security biochemical lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak.
“We don’t have evidence that this disease originated there,” the senator said, “but because of China’s duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question to see what the evidence says, and China right now is not giving evidence on that question at all.”
I saw enough in Hong Kong markets to have a good idea what wet markets in China would be like. Not hard to image diseases spreading from there.
In early 2020, we didn’t know the origins of the Coronavirus. It’s more than fair to assume there would be incomplete information and a variety of theories. What is unacceptable is how the WHO, CDC and Fauci dismissed any suggestion that the origin could be a Bio lab in Wuhan, China. Worse, is how social media companies along with commercial media demonized anyone questioning the official narrative.
Some doctors, scientists and politicians courageously questioned the official narrative and presented reasonable doubts about the natural origins of Covid-19. Disagreement and debate is healthy with regard to scientific questions. The shaming and dismissal of qualified medical personnel is not.
The people who shut down discussion of the origins of Covid-19 have lost all credibility and should lose any position or standing that permits them to offer any opinion on scientific questions.
Expect commercial media will erase any evidence of their dereliction. They will adopt a “Can’t we all just get along” approach.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Energy Department has concluded that the Covid pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak, according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the White House and key members of Congress.
It isn’t clear why the Energy Department is investigating the Covid origin, instead of building nuclear reactors, but at least they got to the answer that the rest of us figured out a long time ago.
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