Archive for January 26th, 2022

The origins of Covid … smoking guns?

January 26, 2022

Great piece of reporting by Bret Baer, based on emails and other docs obtained through FOIA requests.

click for 11 min. video<= must see TV … Cliff notes below
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Here’s my Cliff notes recap (with screenshots from the video report):

> Initially, virologists queried by Fauci, argued (in writing) that the Covid source was a lab leak.

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> Fauci immediately tasked a lieutenant to see if if there was evidence that NIH was complicit in the WUHAN lab work.

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> NIH (and Fauci as the grant awarder) was complicit, having channeled money through the Eco Health Alliance to the Wuhan Lab. 

> Efforts quickly focused on damage control, labeling the lab leak as a conspiracy theory that was a threat to “the science”.

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> NIH awarded almost $9 million in research grants to two of the virologists who were initially adamant that the virus originated in the lab.

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> The award winning scientists “evolved” their thinking on the subject.

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Bottom line: It’s hard to “follow the science” when the scientists are covering their butts and “following the money”.

Biden: “The unemployment rate is way down to 3.9%”

January 26, 2022

… that is, when you take the 2.3 million who left the work force out of the calculation.
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Today, let’s take a 3rd whack at Biden’s economic bravado.

True, the unemployment rate is down to 3.9%.

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And, that’s a big decline from the 14.7% unemployment rate during the most intense Covid lockdown period.

But, it’s still .4 percentage points higher than the 3.5% pre-Covid unemployment rate.

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And, the current unemployment rate is understated since about 2.3 million people have left the labor force … and aren’t counted in the unemployment rate calculation.

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Combining the current unemployment rate (3.9%) and the number of people who have left the workforce (2.3 million), current employment is only 149 million … about 3.6 million lower than pre-Covid employment.

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Bottom line: To stay grounded when the statistical shells start moving,  total employment  is the number to focus on …


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