Wuhan virus 2020

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Catfish

He will take it VERY serious, indeed he will apologise AND take FULL RESPONSIBILITY".
Which means ?

In the case of Boris Johnson....probably nothing.

[mapuc]

Why does he point fingers at others and not taking the blame himself

Seems like it's everyone's fault and not his.

Again if he refuse to leave-If the Parliament vote for a kick-P.M-out what then ?

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Why does he point fingers at others and not taking the blame himself

Seems like it's everyone's fault and not his.

Again if he refuse to leave-If the Parliament vote for a kick-P.M-out what then ?

Markus

Then he goes...simple as that.

[Jimbuna]

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Then he goes...simple as that.

My statement should have been posted in our UK-thread. And thereby you answer Jim.

I read yours and Catfish comments and may have thought I was in the UK-thread.

Markus

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Why does he point fingers at others and not taking the blame himself
Seems like it's everyone's fault and not his.

Maybe he has german ancestors.

[Jimbuna]

[mapuc]

With the last days high percentage of Danes who are infected I say it was a little to early

Denmark is scraping most pandemic restrictions as the country no longer considers COVID-19 to be “a socially critical disease.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireSt...tions-82595356

Today's percentage 28,52%
Number Danes who has been tested the last 24 hours = 159049
Whereof number infected is = 45366

Usually it's around 220-240000 who get tested each day here in Denmark.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

A sub-variant of Omicron has now been detected in 57 countries, the World Health Organization says.

In some countries, BA.2 now accounts for over half of sequenced Omicron cases, the WHO says.

The government has written off £8.7bn spent on PPE during pandemic, accounts show.

Items costing £673m were unusable, while £750m of equipment was not used before it expired.

Another Tory MP has called for Boris Johnson to resign, as the fallout from parties held in No 10 continues.

Tobias Ellwood says the Conservative Party is "slipping into a very ugly place"

Germany and the Czech Republic have seen record numbers of daily cases.

In France, restrictions are being eased, with face masks no longer compulsory outdoors, and an end to limits on large crowds.

On Tuesday the UK recorded a further 112,458 coronavirus cases and 219 deaths.

Tonga is to go into lockdown after a handful of Covid cases were recorded in the capital city Nuku'alofa.

[Jimbuna]

[MaDef]

Tonga is to go into lockdown after a handful of Covid cases were recorded in the capital city Nuku'alofa.

They should read the report from John Hopkins, according to their study, lockdowns reduce covid-19 mortality rate by only .2%. There is lot more info in that study, but bottom line, the cost -benefit ratio isn't worth it.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by MaDef

They should read the report from John Hopkins, according to their study, lockdowns reduce covid-19 mortality rate by only .2%. There is lot more info in that study, but bottom line, the cost -benefit ratio isn't worth it.

Thanks for that. I didn't know the figure was so low

[Jimbuna]

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by MaDef

They should read the report from John Hopkins, according to their study, lockdowns reduce covid-19 mortality rate by only .2%. There is lot more info in that study, but bottom line, the cost -benefit ratio isn't worth it.

My local politician said lockdowns work. He did manage to keep his winery open as it as deemed, 'essential'.

[Rockstar]

Anyone seen Mr. Science lately?


https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/docum...19-Origins.pdf

https://theintercept.com/document/20...tes-of-health/

FBI SOUGHT DOCUMENTS RELATED TO U.S.-FUNDED CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH IN CHINA

New records from the National Institutes of Health detail internal conversations involving EcoHealth Alliance’s research in Wuhan.

https://theintercept.com/2022/01/20/...ecohealth-fbi/

THE FBI SOUGHT National Institutes of Health grant documents covering bat coronavirus research in Wuhan in spring 2020, according to emails obtained by The Intercept. The emails, released through ongoing litigation between The Intercept and the NIH, detail internal NIH conversations involving the New York-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, which collaborated with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on research. The emails also contain previously unreported requests the agency made of EcoHealth Alliance as a condition for restoring a grant funding its research. While unable to provide some of the information requested by the agency, Peter Daszak, EcoHealth’s besieged president, fought fiercely to save the grant.

The new information gives an unprecedented window into the high-profile tussle between EcoHealth Alliance and the NIH, and underscores the agency’s tenuous grasp of the biosafety protocols in place in its research projects, even with a project that has since come under scrutiny for a possible link to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“There doesn’t seem to be transparent and accessible record-keeping of incident reporting,” said Filippa Lentzos, co-director of the Centre for Science and Security Studies at King’s College London, after viewing some of the emails. “That is very worrying and underscores the need for an overhaul of biosafety oversight in the United States.”

The correspondence contains letters going back to April 2020, when Trump administration officials were blaming the Wuhan Institute of Virology, without sufficient evidence, for causing the pandemic. On April 17, President Donald Trump was asked in a press conference about the NIH grant to EcoHealth Alliance, under which the Chinese lab was a partner. He responded, “We will end that grant very quickly.” Two days later, Michael Lauer, NIH deputy director for extramural research, informed Daszak that the agency was suspending grant funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and instructed his group to cease providing grant money to the institute. On April 24, according to a letter included in the new communications, Lauer followed up with the news that the NIH was terminating the entire grant because it did not “align with the program goals and agency priorities.” He told EcoHealth Alliance officials that nearly $370,000 needed to be remitted back to the NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with their access to the remaining grant funds restricted “effective immediately.” (Politico reported the existence of the letter that same month, and Science later published an excerpt of it.)

The confrontation earned Daszak sympathy in the press and from other scientists. NIH officials, meanwhile, refuted the possibility of a lab origin, at least in public. It would later be revealed, however, that in February 2020 NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and then-NIH Director Francis Collins had privately consulted with prominent scientists who had seriously considered the possibility of a lab origin for the pandemic, and that two months later some leading researchers still believed a lab accident was possible. “Wondering if there is something the NIH can do to help put down this very destructive conspiracy,” Collins wrote in an email to Fauci in late April, in reference to a Fox News segment mentioning the lab-origin hypothesis. While a handful of biosafety experts had openly called for scrutinizing the NIH’s funding of EcoHealth Alliance, their entreaties were largely drowned out by political wrangling.