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JULY 16, 2022

DO YOU REMEMBER HER FROM THE TRUMP PRESS CONFERENCES?  DO YOU THINK WHAT SHE SAYS HERE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED?  YEAH, I THINK SO.  We still have not nailed down the source of the Covid 19 virus.  Maybe some people just don't want to know.  Maybe some don't care.  But we must know if we've just experienced a medical accident or a deliberate release.  A familiar face gives us her take, and it's serious.  From Daily Mail: 

Former President Donald Trump’s adviser believes Covid-19 could have leaked from a Wuhan lab where scientists were working on vaccines for similar viruses.

Infectious diseases expert and former presidential Covid adviser Dr Deborah Birx told The Mail on Sunday that coronavirus ‘came out of the box ready to infect’ when it emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2020. 

The adviser said most viruses take months or years to become highly infectious to humans. But, Dr Birx said, Covid ‘was already more infectious than flu when it first arrived’.

She said that meant Covid was either an ‘abnormal thing of nature’ or that Chinese scientists were ‘working on coronavirus vaccines’ and became infected.

‘It happens, labs aren’t perfect, people aren’t perfect, we make mistakes and there can be contamination,’ she said. 

She accused China of initially covering up how infectious Covid was. 

Birx said Covid’s infectiousness was consistent with a virus which had been experimented on in a lab. 

'In laboratories you grow the virus in human cells, allowing it to adapt more. Each time it passes through human cells it becomes more adapted,’ she said.

Because people can catch Covid asymptomatically – meaning they don’t show symptoms – Dr Birx argues a Wuhan scientist could have easily walked out of the lab with it. 

'Someone working in the lab with one of the strains could’ve caught it and not known they had it,’ she said.

Dr Birx also added that lives could’ve been saved if China had admitted the virus spread asymptomatically, when it was first discovered.

‘China was implying that they were containing it, but asymptomatic spread cannot be contained without testing,’ she said. 

‘I think the world lost several months of preparation because we were thinking there wasn’t that level of human-to-human spread when there clearly was.’

Dr Birx’s comments came a month after the MoS revealed that the head of the World Health Organization privately believes the Covid pandemic started following a Chinese lab leak.

China has repeatedly denied claims of a lab leak and branded the idea as a ‘conspiracy theory’. 

But alternative theories – that Covid came from human contact with bats or from a meat market in Wuhan – are not backed by evidence.

The lab leak theory was touted early on but was shut down by liberal media who ridiculed the idea and even branded it racist.

It took many mainstream left leaning news sites more than a year from the spread of the virus, to concede that the lab theory held weight. 

When Donald Trump, on May 1, 2020, said he had 'a high degree of confidence' that the virus escaped from a lab, the New York Times, CNN, and NPR were quick to mock his comments.  

CNN was almost gleeful in its mockery of the idea that the virus could have come from a laboratory. 

The Washington Post, New York Times, and NPR were equally dismissive of suggestions that the virus could have come from a laboratory. 

Few were able to suggest that COVID-19 could have stemmed from a research facility without backlash but that didn't stop some media, including the Daily Mail, from questioning the narrative.

Fox News's Tucker Carlson was also clear in demanding an investigation into whether it could have escaped from the lab.

Finally, in early 2021, came the first signs that opinion was beginning to change.

COMMENT:  The disgraceful attempts to policitize the story in order to humiliate President Trump  were a low point in the history of the American media.  We were told to "follow the science" while "journalists" trampled on that same science.

We need a full investigation into the origin of the virus, like the probe following the Shuttle Challenger disaster.  We cannot depend on the press to inform us.

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JULY 15, 2022

HOW DARE THEY THINK FOR THEMSELVES?  WHAT IS THIS, SOME KIND OF FREE COUNTRY?  Yes, I know, it's very upsetting to the moguls of the Democratic Party that Hispanic Americans are thinking for themselves and leaving the party in large numbers.  This may mean, brace yourselves, that the party might actually have to serve the interests of these ungrateful souls in order to keep them in line.  Who do they think they are?

The short answer lies in the backgrounds of two Hispanic women – one a stalwart of the Democratic Party's hard left, the other one of the new, stubborn types, who just won't go along with the way things have been.  Read about them.  This is good, explanatory journalism.  From RealClearPolitics: 

Mayra Flores’ stunning victory last week in Texas’ 34th Congressional District shows that the culture war dominating America’s public discourse is not really about race.
Her district, which runs from west of San Antonio to the border town of Brownsville, is 85% Hispanic, which is the second highest proportion in the country. It went for Barack Obama in 2012, Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Joe Biden in 2020, albeit by diminishing margins. The region is now represented on Capitol Hill by a Republican, which hadn’t been the case for approximately 150 years.

Flores’s story could not be more different than her headline-grabbing counterpart in the Democratic Party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A comparison between the two sheds light on the cultural and political realignment shaping the country, including a potential sweet spot in American electoral politics, one that emphasizes a socially conservative agenda while centering on the economic plight of the working and middle classes. At stake are two different visions of America.

Flores is the antithesis of AOC. She embodies an authenticity that the “It Girl” of the liberal-left sorely lacks. Despite her calculated efforts to cultivate an image of some sort of besieged escopetera fighting her way out of the Sierra Maestra, AOC is a product of the American middle class – and the Eastern liberal establishment. It is AOC who appears on the cover of Vanity Fair and attends the Met Gala, all to speak truth to power of course!

Flores has received hardly any of this adulating media coverage, which is odd, given that she is the first Mexican-born woman elected to Congress. Except for a few appearances on Fox News, Flores didn’t benefit from the fawning interviews on MSNBC or CNN that helped make AOC a household name. Given all the emphasis on “firsts” and representation in our cultural and social life over the last decade, one would expect Flores to be plastered all over the mainstream media for the coming months, if not years. Gender and ethnicity, it seems, only matter when it suits a particular partisan agenda.

When Flores was asked how she could possibly be a Republican when she was born in Mexico, she responded, “They know nothing about our culture.” Flores’s socially conservative culture emphasizes faith, family, and hard work – values that were once the bedrock of American society – replenished anew with each new wave of immigration.

Flores’s Mexican heritage is especially significant. The Latino experience in America is diverse and while Republicans can expect to get some support from Cubans and Venezuelans fleeing Communist rule, Mexicans and other Hispanic groups have, in the recent past, voted increasingly for Democrats. Flores’s victory suggests that this may be about to change.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  If the Hispanic exodus steams on, the panicking Dems will have to replace Hispanics with another willing interest group.  It may be tough.  How many trans anthropologists are there anyway?

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