A boolean variable can have values true, false and null. Most of the universe is still a mystery whatever the fact checkers say.
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
The next pandemic is coming — scientists
Covid is set to cost the world at least £21.5 trillion But scientists say the world needs to spend just £35 billion to make sure it never happens again.
The morphing pathogen defies planners
Authorities in Israel and Australia imposed new Covid-19 restrictions in response to the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus, while India warned of a worrying new mutation, emphasizing how the morphing pathogen continues to challenge a return to pre-pandemic life world-wide… “The entrance of the Delta variant has changed the transmission …
“Indonesia’s Doctors Got Vaccinated With Sinovac, and Got Sick” — NYT
Other countries are discovering that certain vaccines may not be as effective as others in preventing infections caused by these variants. … Dr. Adib said that the association is now discussing the possibility of administering to medical workers a third shot of another vaccine, such as Oxford-AstraZeneca. Some countries are supporting a mix-and-match scheme to …
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“How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life for Uyghurs”
by Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times
‘Where Did the Coronavirus Come From? What We Already Know Is Troubling’ — NYT opinion
It was only in 2004 that a prominent virologist, Peter Palese, wrote that Chi-Ming Chu, a respected virologist and a former member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told him that “the introduction of this 1977 H1N1 virus” was indeed thought to be due to vaccine trials involving “the challenge of several thousand military recruits …
Like it was designed to infect people
Surprisingly, the results showed that SARS-CoV-2 bound to ACE2 on human cells more tightly than any of the tested animal species, including bats and pangolins. If one of the animal species tested was the origin, it would normally be expected to show the highest binding to the virus. “Humans showed the strongest spike binding, consistent …
Can fusion ever happen?
One of the problems with fusion power is that it would upset the fission business, like the fuel rod cycle business. Then you would have to retrain all the existing gov’t inspectors to understand something they don’t. All that land PWRs sit on would cost billions to convert. There’s a lot of inertia to business …
‘Unknown pneumonia’ at 2019 Military Olympics
U.S. lawmakers are demanding an investigation into the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan, China, where athletes complained of COVID-like symptoms and described the city as a ‘ghost town’ weeks before authorities admitted the spread of a new virus. Almost 10,000 international competitors from 100 countries took part in what is known as the ‘military …
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Google Keeps Stopping on Android Phones As Users Report Issues
Users reported having issues with Google as they tried to access the search engine on their Android smartphones. According to the online outage tracker Downdetector, which gives users real-time information about the status of websites, people experienced issues accessing Google at 1:20 a.m. (ET) on June 22. Visitors to Google experienced problems accessing and using …
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Researcher reconstructs earliest but deleted Covid sequence
Biden to gun owners
Crime out of control due to guns and root causes
They Relied on Chinese Vaccines. Now They’re Battling Outbreaks — NYT
More than 90 countries are using Covid shots from China. Experts say recent infections in those places should serve as a cautionary tale in the global effort to fight the disease.
The last conspiracy theory of the late John McAfee
Put that phone down and walk away from it
Who wants to bet the alternatives to Anom that people are switching to were also developed by the US government? In other news:
Run silent, run deep
Maybe the only way to survive the book-burning, witch-hunting Woke era is to go into stealth mode, to adjust your visibility such that you are only visible to trust networks. In the end we may see the revival of hermitages and monasteries as places of survival.
No one will be spared
Soon, a Black Lives Matter advocate asked, of all things, whether I would stand for the American flag. To provide context for my decision, I shared a story. As a toddler, I’d seen my mother take a call from the Department of Defense announcing that her fighter-pilot brother had been killed. Honoring her grief, I’d …
“20 days without online advertising means @benandjerrys knows they can’t go back to business as usual”
Pro-Palestinian activists were swarming the social media comments sections of Ben & Jerry’s to demand the company boycott Israel. In response, Ben & Jerry’s appears to have indeed entered a boycott — of social media itself.
Don’t just do something. Stand there sometimes.
The virus was not the cause for global catastrophe. It was the response to the virus that crippled the global economy and our society. The disease was not nearly as damaging as the “cure” for the disease.