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Well he clearly wants to bang his own daughter aka the real sec of state!
You hope there’s someone banging his sister in the White House?
Maybe hulk hogan and trump should hang out
Well he clearly wants to bang his own daughter aka the real sec of state!
You hope there’s someone banging his sister in the White House?
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That's the best this cowardly dipshit has to offer, as it's always been. They have to cut away from the leader of the free world staring at a chart he can't read, exposing his absurd hair to the lights.
What. In. The. Actual. Fuck.
The thing is, that won't happen because... they see it already, and find the behavior empowering. They live vicariously through Trump because he can be horrifically toxic to anyone he wants all the time, throw tantrums, lie out his ass, and pay no price. That's what they want for themselves.I'm still waiting for the MAGA guys to look at behavior like this and go "That looks familiar. Where have I seen stuff like th- little kids. Oh shiiiiiiiiiiit!!"
The thing is, that won't happen because... they see it already, and find the behavior empowering. They live vicariously through Trump because he can be horrifically toxic to anyone he wants all the time, throw tantrums, lie out his ass, and pay no price. That's what they want for themselves.
The purpose is just to do it. Trump has never been accountable to anyone his entire life, and now he's the President. He's a spoiled bully wrapped up in immense power. He shits on people just because he can, and his crazy die harders worship him out of envy for the wildly disproportionate power relationship that represents.I don't see a purpose in the tantrum need to tear everything down. It's too Jihadi a concept for me. What could acting like a cunt nobody would ever want to hang around with possibly achieve?
Mid pandemic, Dow is still higher under Obama.
Also higher than under Busch, Clinton, Busch, Reagan, Carter......
You could have just linked the articles.(continued)
Example 5: Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) from Pirbright 2007
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) is a veterinary disease that affects primarily cloven-hoofed domestic animals (pigs, sheep and cattle). It has been eradicated in North America and most of Europe. It is highly transmissible, capable of spreading through direct contact and even through some prepared meats (sausages, airline food), on boots of farm workers (or tourists’ shoes: that’s why there’s that question “have you visited a farm” on the re-entry customs checklist coming into the USA), and even by aerosol spread.
FMD only occasionally causes a mild disease in humans, though exposed humans can carry the virus for up to three days, potentially an important method of spread. FMD causes a more serious disease in animals. Often fatal in young animals, survivors are stunted and lose their economic value. Adult animals die less often, but fail to gain weight or drop in milk production, and can become carriers. Most importantly, strict international quarantine regulations mean that an outbreak will cause all livestock and meat from that country to be banned from international trade. Various methods of outbreak control exist, but all are draconian, requiring massive culling (killing) of “in contact” but otherwise healthy animals surrounding index cases. Restrictions on all animal movement and often all commerce through infected areas are imposed, resulting in secondary economic losses from loss of tourism and general economic activity.
For instance, in the UK in 2001 a FMD outbreak ran from February to October 2001, with travel and export restrictions lasting into 2002. To control the outbreak, all susceptible livestock within 3 kms of an active case were culled. At its peak, 80,000-93,000 animals a week were killed and burned on farms, a total about10 million sheep and cattle. Its direct cost was about $ 6.9 billion with overall costs to the British economy estimated at $ 16 billion.
On August 3, 2007 an outbreak of FMD was reported on a farm in the UK, initially with at least 38 cases in cattle identified. Quarantine measures were introduced and an investigation begun, with culling of surrounding livestock. Most countries banned UK livestock and meat exports. The virus was quickly identified as a strain that had caused a 1967 outbreak in the UK, but was not currently circulating in animals anywhere. Another case of “frozen evolution.” However, this outbreak was 2.8 miles (4.6 kms) south of Pirbright, where the only two facilities in the UK that were authorized to hold FMD virus were located. One was the UK Institute for Animal Health (IAH), the other Merial, a commercial veterinary FMD vaccine manufacturer. They both used the 1967 FMD strain, the Merial facility in large amounts (10,000 l) for vaccine manufacture. Operations were suspended at Merial on August 4 and its license to operate withdrawn. A second FMD outbreak quickly appeared near the first, and animal movement with the UK restricted and quarantine zones encompassing both the Pirbright campus and two affected farms were put in place on Aug 750. An initial investigation also published August 7 found no evidence for aerosol or surface water transmission of FMD virus from Pirbright, was investigating other wastewater issues, and suggested human carriage might have occurred51.
Investigation eventually showed that a waste-water line carrying partially treated waste water from the Merial vaccine plant to the final waste treatment plant run by IAH had gone without routine inspection or maintenance, was damaged, leaking, and had an unsealed manhole opening to the surface, so was capable of contaminating ground and surface water. It became clear that Merial and the IAH each considered the other responsible for such inspection and maintenance, and it had gone undone. The non-secure wastewater line ran through a construction area that recent heavy rains had turned into deep mud, and construction vehicles traversed it and exited the Pirbright campus without inspection or monitoring. These trucks sometimes used the road that passed by the first affected farm. It was concluded that contaminated mud from the defective wastewater line at Pirbright had been carried on tyres or underbody of construction vehicles and caused the first outbreak52.
For a brief time the outbreak was thought to have ended, and restrictions in the Pirbright area were lifted September 8, 2007. The UK applied to the EU to lift most restrictions on animal exports from the UK to EU on September 11, 2007.
However, on September 12, 2007 FMD was again reported, this time 30 miles north of Pirbright, again with the same 1967 strain of FMD. From September 18-30 multiple additional outbreaks of FMD appeared in the same area. A national embargo on all animal shipment was imposed, and new surveillance zones expanded rapidly until, overlapping they encompassed a portion of Heathrow Airport and were cut across by the major M4, M3 and M25 motorways. Rapid (real-time) genomic analysis had been ongoing during this outbreak, and indicated a single escape of FMD from Pirbright, which first spread between the two farms of the August outbreak, then went unnoticed at third farm before it blossomed again in mid September. Follow-up investigations identified the intermediate farm53.
The 2007 UK FMD outbreak identified 278 infected animals, and required 1578 animals to be culled54. It disrupted UK agricultural production and exports, and cost an estimated 200 million pounds. The ban of meat exports was particularly damaging as UK beef had only just exited a 10-year embargo by the EU because of BSE (Mad Cow Disease) in May of 2006.
FMD is such an easily transmitted virus with such potential to cause massive economic damage it would appear that manipulating it in a virology laboratory in a FMD free area is manifestly fraught with hazard. Particularly when it might escape by an “invisible” breach in biosafety as it did at Pirbright, and where it might lurk undetected despite heavy surveillance as it did between the two outbreaks.
In the US, previous law had banned it on the continental US, so FMD virus is currently only held in the USDA Plum Island facility off of Long Island (in a facility originally built in the 1950s for anti-animal BW work). Currently a replacement facility under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) is under construction in Manhattan, KS. The move of FMD research to the agricultural heartland of the US was opposed by many groups, including the GAO, but DHS decided on the KS location and construction is ongoing. So much for learning from other’s experience.
Conclusions
There are some common themes in these narratives of escaped pathogens. Undetected flaws in the functioning of what was considered at the time to be an adequate standard of technical biocontainment is one theme, as demonstrated in the UK smallpox and FMD cases. Transfer to and handling of inadequately inactivated preparations of dangerous pathogens in areas of the laboratory with reduced biosecurity levels (allowable if the preparation is actually inactivated) is another theme, demonstrated in the SARS and VEE escapes. Poor training of personnel and slack oversight of laboratory procedures negated policy efforts by national and international bodies to achieve biosecurity in the SARS and UK smallpox escapes. The recent appearance of a cohort of immunologically naïve people in the general population, which previously had been uniformly immune was a factor in the UK smallpox and the 1977 H1N1 escapes; in this regard it should be remembered that there is no immunity at all in the general population to most potentially pandemic pathogens currently under discussion, such as Avian influenza and SARS.
It is hardly reassuring that despite stepwise technical improvements in containment facilities and increased policy demands for biosecurity procedures in the handling of dangerous pathogens, that escapes of these pathogens regularly occur and cause outbreaks in the general environment. Looking at the problem pragmatically, question is not if such escapes will happen in the future, but rather what the pathogen may be and how such an escape will be contained, if indeed it can be contained at all.
Advances in genetic manipulation now allow the augmentation of virulence and transmissibility in dangerous pathogens, and such experiments have been funded and performed, notably in the H5N1 avian influenza virus. The advisability of performing such experiments at all, and particularly in laboratories placed at universities in heavily populated urban areas, where laboratory personnel who are potentially exposed are in daily contact with a multitude of susceptible and unaware citizens is clearly in question.
If such manipulations should be allowed at all, it would seem prudent to conduct them in isolated laboratories where personnel are sequestered from the general public and must undergo a period of “exit quarantine” before re-entering civilian life55. Such isolated “detached duty”, while inconvenient for the lifestyle of virologists, is hardly foreign to them, since many experience prolonged periods of inconvenient and dangerous field work in the collection of viruses in the field, and certainly many other natural scientists do prolonged and isolated field work as well. The “inconvenience” barrier that requiring such isolation may present to principal investigators and other personnel may act as a natural screening factor to insure that dangerous manipulations to dangerous pathogens are only undertaken when genuinely indicated.
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tldr: China is going to kill us all.
Also higher than under Busch, Clinton, Busch, Reagan, Carter......
Also, if you want to know more about why testing has been slow, it has to do with for profit testing labs:
Wuhan is the new Russia-gate.
Invent a bad guy so the plebs can focus on them instead of how we fucked up.
Listen to this nut bag act nuts as if we are going to war with China.
We are okay with slave labor in China making our shit. So how the fuck are we all of a sudden on our pedestal?