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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

How often are they also theories which proven not to work?

At this point, I question everything, or would like to think that I do, only to find that there will inevitably be some other thing that I took as "truth" which was actually not so true.

Covid, like this act of bioterrorism, has yet to reveal its true pathological nature. What I know to be true is that someone was arrested for carrying a biological sample. That much is true. I also know, or believe, that they are not lying when they say there was gain-of-function research being done overseas for COVID-19. I also, at times, drew crayons on cardboard boxes and claimed they were supercomputers.

Is this story being reported as a way to rationalize or to push an inevitable more overreach of government?

We also know that things introduced from foreign lands can spread around the world in other places. Like kudzu for instance. Kudzu flourishes down here in Georgia. But I don't look over it with an element of fear. I don't think that if I leave my window open at night, kudzu is gonna grow into my room, surround, and choke me.

As I child of the seventies, I was warned about the inevitable arrival of killer bees.

This isn't to say that there aren't dangers out there. I think it would be far more likely I die from poisoning, a car accident, or even getting shot than by a fungi pathogen. And I also think far more problems erupt from policies than the reasons they were enacted. Think of all the culling of animal species because of "bird flu."

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Joe's avatar

In my life time, I've gone from global cooling to global warming, and now, climate change.

I've seen the War on Poverty, the War on Drugs, Just Say No and The War on Terror.

And that's in addition to the real wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan and the USA.

What has been the accomplishment?

Trillions of Dollars wasted *ahem* Trillions of Dollars in profits (to those on the receiving end).

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

Yes! Trillions wasted!

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Joe's avatar

War is great for business when you're an arms merchant.

Ike did a speech on that once.

Too bad too few remember...

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Crixcyon's avatar

I doubt that this fungi or whatever it was would be all that pervasive. Especially if it was made in a lab. Anyway, with all the chemicals they spray on the crops these days, not even a human has a chance of survival.

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Daniel Mordue's avatar

Those chemicals are insectisides or whatever. They are all carcinogenic. A lot more pervasive than this fungi.

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Joe's avatar

How else do you increase profits for the lab that invented the cure for the new disease you just discovered?

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James Kringlee's avatar

"Unrestricted Warfare" Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui (Beijing: PLA Literature and Arts Publishing House, February 1999) c4i.org/unrestricted.pdf page 15 Chapter 1: The Weapons Revolution Which Invariably Comes First ("tactics" - "to compensate for their military inferiority vis-à-vis the United States" "The weapons revolution that invariably comes first" my note: i.e. develop stealth bioweapons and stealth, disguised as a pandemic or other natural occurrence, strategy to deploy them)

"the first rule of unrestricted warfare is that there are no rules, with nothing forbidden."

May 2019 the ccp/pla declares a "people's war" against the US, one day later this declared war was "clarified" as an "economic war" against the US.

"Unrestricted Warfare" as "economic war" attacks the economy, food and forestry resources, and workforce of the enemy with such as fentanyl and contaminants in drugs exported to the enemy and stealth bioweapons

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Daniel Mordue's avatar

Can't be that many, or we would have heard of unexplained crop damage and mystery illness in people who ate any crops and didn't know the crops were infected. We would have heard of who knows how many thousands of cases of illness, or we would see unusual poor conditions or damage we certainly couldn't explain. I have never been hurt by any food-borne illness or anything mysterious. Let's hope we don't see multiple successful bioterror events with regard to crops.

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Christine Dorothy's avatar

One terrorist hid a nail file in his shoe. Now we all have to take our shoes off at security. The solution to Chinese student terrorism is obvious.

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Joe's avatar

I thought it was because that idiot Richard Reid, aka "The Shoe Bomber" tried to light his shoe.

Either way, TSA strains gnats while allowing camels to pass.

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Daniel Mordue's avatar

Yes, he DID try to light some kind of explosive. It was NOT a nail file. Passengers even saw him try to light something, and he was gonna throw it somewjere so the plane might blow up. Passengers subdued him and stopped him from doing it.

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Joe's avatar

At 30,000 feet, it's dog pile time!

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