Did China develop the Coronavirus?

Chan is “Scientist-turned-detective | Postdoc at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard”

Related: There are “key gaps” in the “interenational community’s” ability to forensically trace the origin of an outbreak and attribute motive to an accident. The limits of current technology to model, control and understand the origin of pathogens has been starkly revealed.

https://nonproliferation.org/op-49-a-guide-to-investigating-outbreak-origins/

The care of time

On the eve

Not Hunter but the Big Guy

The statement Wednesday night asserting that the former vice president was a willing and eager participant in a family scheme to make millions of dollars by partnering with a shady Chinese Communist firm is a singular event in a presidential race already overflowing with drama and intrigue.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/hunter-biz-partner-confirms-e-mail-details-joe-bidens-push-to-make-millions-from-china/

Weakness

Twitter outage seems resolved

Tweets failed to post and wound up in unsent drafts. Notifications also failed to tag. The main account remained accessible (I could edit the profile) but the related tweet and notification tables could not be updated.

Seems ok now. Reasonable to conjecture that the tweets were saving to draft because a transaction was failing. Watching that was a strong clue that a tech issue was responsible.