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https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientist-adventurer-chinas-bat-woman-104920076.html A scientist adventurer and China's 'Bat Woman' are under scrutiny as coronavirus lab-leak theory gets another look

No, but it was relatively easy to project him and Ozuna (well, not the DV part.). The power numbers were obviously the biggest surprise.

China is swamping the world market with masks at 1 cent or less than a cent...doesn’t care about losing money if it wipes out US industries, making the country largely reliant on the Chinese again. That fact isn’t going away, either from April 2020 or June, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/29/health/us-china-mask-production.html No way America was ready...the strategic reserve was depleted and Trump hemmed and hawed over invoking the Defense Production Act with companies like 3M but largely didn’t push corporations for political/strategic reasons. Plus, we were by then in the middle of our own crisis, like India’s SII (70% of world vaccine production) is experiencing now. Catching up with mask manufacturing was always going to be a challenge, then you have the controversial role intervening in these markets let by Kushner and even military leaders like Real Admiral Brett Giroir. Fauci made statements on CNN or NPR or whatever...then he was forced to give completely different or tempered remarks to pacify Trump and keep him from losing it. Let’s not forget the first person to speak out, Dr. Nancy Messonier of the CDC, getting so far out in front with her warnings the CDC and Redfield were never serious players, especially after the lab test kit debacle. HHS was even worse, arguably.

Fair and balanced.

Suddenly we’re so trusting of Katz after completely throwing in the towel on Cooper? How do we explain how much better the bullpen was last year? What about Keuchel? What about Crochet? Bummer? Heuer? Katz has Rodon and Cease and I guess Kopech to crow about, but TLR also has Lance Lynn, the best pitcher on the team so far this year...along with Hendriks, one of the most expensive relievers in baseball.

Lilian would do ———— if this actually happened?

What would you have done if you were aware there was a critical lack of PPE...that 90% of it was coming from, China, but they originally needed all of it for themselves (see vaccine distribution globally today), that we were months away from ramping up the ability to manufacture at scale...and you had a boss completely against masks? You had to believe the first priority was protecting doctors and nurses with that PPE, yes? Fauci had an impossible task, which was threading the needle between Trump, Dr. Deborah Birx, and Atlas...won’t even call him a medical expert. Isn’t it the same argument that Rick Hahn should have quit as GM when he was forced to take on TLR not only as manager but basically giving up control on coaches and acquisition control/roster management? Has Hahn maintained the same leadership credibility as 80 year old Fauci? His success over numerous presidents/administrations, Dem and GOP, goes to his ability to be a chameleon...adapting between the politics of science intersecting with 30-35% of the country rejecting everything that came out of his mouth simply because he became much more trusted and popular on this subject than Trump himself...hence, the cancellation of briefings where Fauci could stand out front and center as the media superstar and America’s Grandfather, lol.

I would go Sanjay Gupta/Anderson Cooper, Laurie Garrett, Dr. Michael Osterholm, Dr. Leana Wen...Tom Frieden, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Ron Klain.

Almost a week later, Brenly offered another bizarre remark when he commented on Padres shortstop Fernando Tatís Jr.'s necklace during a broadcast, saying, “It might be easier to run the bases if he didn’t have that bike chain around his neck.” Tatis shrugged off the comments when asked about them afterward. “I just laugh about it,” he told reporters. “I don’t know what he’s thinking about it but I just find [the chain] fun. It’s part of me, its part of my game, it’s part of Latin culture.” Stroman also took the opportunity Wednesday to promote his apparel company, which offers durags in three colorways. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/06/02/marcus-stroman-bob-brenly-racist-remark/

Yeah, it’s not like anyone hates the A’s (ironically a TLR team) from 1990 or the Rangers from 1983 or whatever...

How many Americans could even identify Gottlieb without being obsessive CNN watchers?

“China will have destroyed proof of Wuhan coronavirus leak, says former MI6 chief” Just more speculation with increasingly dramatic headlines... https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-destroyed-proof-wuhan-coronavirus-130130269.html “In the end it’s going to boil down to scientific evidence because the data is no longer available, unless some courageous Chinese individual, probably a scientist, comes forward. “We have been through a period of extraordinary nativete in our relationship with China. “Some of the things that were said by George Osborne and David Cameron about our relationship with China, how we were going to have this privileged position, I was staggered at the time by the sheer naivete that they could develop a relationship with China without understanding they were dealing with a communist dictatorship, and one that has its own strategic agenda. “This is a really important issue and has massive, far-reaching implications. If the outcome is likely to be that serious, which personally I think it will be, I can’t see China agreeing to pay reparations, and I’m not sure what our future relationship with China is going to be.” Sir Richard said an inquiry into whether the virus leaked from a lab should not be left to the World Health Organisation (WHO) which has been criticised for failing to look rigorously into the issue.

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Basically, Christian Yelich to Milwaukee...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/bob-brenlys-du-rag-comment-is-the-type-of-venom-black-people-like-marcus-stroman-have-to-live-with-every-day-210215857.html

Still, the White House criticized the report as incomplete, while WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it wasn’t “extensive enough” and that the lab-leak theory needed more investigation. Other prominent Western scientists have urged that hypotheses about natural and laboratory spillovers be taken seriously until there is sufficient data to say otherwise. While Biden’s move to publicly announce the virus probe appeared “purely political,” Tedros’s criticism of the WHO report is harder for China to dismiss “and it’s driving them crazy,” according to Christopher Johnson, a former senior China analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Either way, he added, China is unlikely to allow anymore access that would shed further light on the origin. “Finding a smoking gun on this would be nearly impossible, so the only way you could deescalate is to actually be talking to each other,” Johnson said. “Without that, the potential to inflame the relationship further is there.” https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/wuhan-lab-leak-theory-revival-110015939.html

This is the gist of Rabbit's case, and the concerns about US funding/partnership and a possible cover-up or conspiracy. By the way, I included a sinister looking picture...mask, cell phone conversation, PROOF! Researcher Tied to Wuhan Lab Thanked Fauci for Dismissing Lab-Leak Theory Zachary Evans Tue, June 1, 2021, 3:14 PM·2 min read Peter Daszak, a zoologist whose non-profit steered U.S. funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, thanked Dr. Anthony Fauci for pushing back on the theory that the coronavirus leaked from a lab, in an April 2020 email published as part of a FOIA request by Buzzfeed. Daszak’s organization, the EcoHealth Alliance, funneled $3.4 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health to the controversial WIV (Wuhan Institute of Virology) to study bat coronaviruses between 2014 and 2019. While politicians and scientists in the U.S. have suggested that the novel coronavirus initially leaked from the WIV before spreading across the globe, Daszak has vehemently denied the allegation. https://news.yahoo.com/researcher-tied-wuhan-lab-thanked-201433387.html Of course, this was from the National Review, so caveat emptor. This piece was originally published on PolitiFact.com on April 15, 2020. The country’s top infectious disease expert is discouraging the use of a potential COVID-19 treatment because he could earn millions of dollars from a vaccine, at least, that’s according to a popular Facebook claim. One post published by an anti-vaccine page on Sunday says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, “stands to lose 100 million dollars” on a coronavirus vaccine from Bill Gates because he invested in it. “If everyone can be healed with the Malaria drug and a Z pack, there will be no need for the vaccine if we could use drugs already on the market that helps heal 98 percent of the cornovirus (sic) patients,” reads the image. “That’s why he’s been so hesitant to put his seal of approval on this form of treatment that has shown to drastically improve hundreds of people’s symptoms.” There are 70 potential COVID-19 vaccines in development, one of which was created by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases scientists in partnership with Moderna, Inc. That vaccine is being manufactured by an organization that the Gates Foundation supports, but there’s no evidence that the agency or Fauci will directly profit from that support. And the Gates Foundation has pledged up to $60 million for vaccine development, not $100 million, as the post says. Some studies have found that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could help treat coronavirus patients, but others have found no effect at all. Public health officials have urged caution due to the uncertainty and the adverse side effects of the drugs. The Facebook post is inaccurate. We rate it False. https://www.statesman.com/news/20200416/fact-check-does-anthony-fauci-have-millions-invested-in-coronavirus-vaccine

Sheets and Burger putting up pretty similar OPS numbers so far. I guess there's a report out today about Burger still needing to make defensive improvements at third, but that's only natural after being off a baseball field for nearly three years.

Just show pictures of Tony Gwynn the last months of his life...no need to have a crusade against an individual player, especially on your own team. Or, better yet, start a national crusade against tobacco products. Good luck with that one, surely there will be many willing to listen in Congress to your idealistic reform ideas.

But is he clutch in high leverage situations?

Look who the Indians are playing...

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/mlb-mets-diamondbacks-announcer-bob-brenly-mocks-marcus-stromans-durag-130405808.html Has a history of comments...seems suspiciously like a recent SoxTalk thread about Yermin’s gold chains.

You forgot embarrassing KW over Moneyball, Bradford-Olivo trade...two Barry/Berrys deal, etc.

So if they were experimenting with a bat-based coronavirus and mutating it...and it got out somehow, what next? More anti-Asian hate incidents? Complete isolation of China on the world stage, which would make a war or confrontation likelier? Breaking off all trade? So we are going to subsidize Midwestern and Rust Belt farmers for decades? Cancelling the Olympics? Public executions of Fauci and Dazsak? Some of the features potentially look engineered...that’s not exactly going to win most debate tournaments.