One Sentence That Says It All

"This is a different ballgame now," one Republican senator told CNN.

What changed the ballgame? Senator Rand Paul tested positive for coronavirus. When it was just us small people affected, it was Pee Wee League. Now that one of them is infected, it's Major League ball and time for the World Series of Senate Panic.

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Kentucky Republican Rand Paul is the first US senator to test positive for coronavirus, throwing an even greater sense of urgency into Senate negotiations over a massive stimulus package that had yet to come together Sunday afternoon.

Senate Republicans, emerging from their closed-door lunch where they received the news about Paul, were extremely unsettled.

Source: CNN - Rand Paul is first senator to test positive for coronavirus

Isn't it wonderful that Senators care so deeply about Americans that they're suddenly experiencing a greater sense of urgency? All it took was one of their own catching the virus.

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travelerxxx's picture

Seems certain chickens have come home to roost, eh?

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So why rush now?

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

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They realize that probably all of them have now been exposed to the virus. I hope it scares them enough they think about possibly "meeting their maker" in the near future. I hope before they all run and lock themselves away, they have a moment of insight and do some at least of the right things for the rest of us, like universal paid sick leave, and sending out cash to everyone, and picking up the tab for medical care for everyone for say the next year, etc.

I'm unsettled too. A group of neighbors are outside socializing, no distancing. They range in age from about 30 to 50s. They are going to get and spread Covid in my neighborhood. They are probably all middle low income, but I'm pretty sure they all know they aren't supposed to do it. I'm angry. If one of them needs a hospital bed or ventilator when there aren't enough to go around, they will get it and I, or some of my high risk neighbors won't because they are younger and healthier.

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he's rambling on about how much it cost him to be prez, how great a prez he is, how much it cost him to be prez, it cost me alot to be prez, tremendous tremendous money to be prez.UFB!

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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@ggersh

having an absolute joke for a president has changed nothing. Democrats are about to coronate Joe Biden, another absolute joke, as their 2020 candidate.

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@edg

I doubt Trump will make it, for that matter.

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on Friday has tested positive, so she has now to self-quarantaine. IN Germany no more than two people can go out in public. With one of your family member you can go to grocery stores, pharmacies and just walk in fresh air, but you need to keep the distance of 1.5 meter.

Meanwhile Tulsi is fighting the governor in HI. "Implement Hawaii's 14-day travel quarantine now", she demands.
[video:https://youtu.be/y4W3Vduw8mQ]
There is no testing and not enough masks for the general population.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez criticizes Trump: This is going to cost lives.
[video:https://youtu.be/c8SE_hjX06Y]

They discuss the same problems everywhere. I don't see many differences, just the time lines are a bit different.

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@mimi

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Pluto's Republic's picture

Congress has no idea what is going on in the world.

They are high-paid temp workers and completely out of the loop.

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@Pluto's Republic

They are high-paid temp workers...

And We the People aren't the ones paying them. Their "salary" is just gas money.

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@travelerxxx

Their "salary" is just gas money.

They all come back millionaires.

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@Pluto's Republic
the more they earn.

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Joe Hiden.jpg

Joe's on the virus case... in someone's bunker.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

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The Coronavirus Hoax
Written by Ron Paul

Governments love crises because when the people are fearful they are more willing to give up freedoms for promises that the government will take care of them. After 9/11, for example, Americans accepted the near-total destruction of their civil liberties in the PATRIOT Act’s hollow promises of security.

It is ironic to see the same Democrats who tried to impeach President Trump last month for abuse of power demanding that the Administration grab more power and authority in the name of fighting a virus that thus far has killed less than 100 Americans.
...

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@CB

...cures himself without using "government run" socialized medicine.

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@Pluto's Republic

People are beginning to feel like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.

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We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg

@CB And he even voted against the bill in 2019 which extended the PAT RIOT Act. Furthermore, history indicates that TPTB will also use this disaster to attempt more shock doctrine insanity.

But, regarding COVID-19, when he made that statement, he probably was not misled, but was actively lying; I don't accept any claim that senators weren't informed of the reality of the situation.

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@tle

Beyond the obvious (their lips were flapping), the exquisitely timed stock sales that protected their finances is enough proof for me that they knew all about coronavirus long before we did.

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bringing the total to 15,790 with deaths increased by 103% to 53.

These exponential rates have dwarfed China's. The US is arguably the least prepared country in the world due the Trump government's hubris in dealing with the situation.

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@CB
This nation, regardless of who is president, was primed for a major malfunction of everything.
It just needed a little nudge to go over the cliff.
Just think of all the wonderful nasties that will be released as mother nature warms the pot of we the frogs.
On a side note, I am enjoying the wonderfull sounds of nature without the noise of human involvement.
The world has quieted down.
The calm before the storm.

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Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.

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@Pricknick

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...it only takes ten days for New York to reach a million new cases per day.

@CB

If only we could order test kits and masks from China....

Did the military get vaccinated?

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@Pluto's Republic @Pluto's Republic
There were about 35 cases connected with the Pentagon. Couldn't happen to a more deserving group.

So far there is no vaccine and relatively little testing has been done.

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@CB we bitch about Trump, Big Pharma, yada yada, but those military personnel are conditioned to leave no soldier behind.
Who knows, it may be them, the ones that put their lives on the line, that might lead us to a true revolution. They know they are being exposed and expected to just follow orders.
Who knows.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@on the cusp
One for the east coast and one for the west. What the braggart doesn't realize is these 1000 patient medical ships are NOT outfitted to take more than a dozen contagious patients at most.

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@CB it burns...

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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@CB

The head of the Joint Chiefs stressed that those ships DON'T handle contagion. Their purpose is to relieve the overflow from civilian hospitals of non-coronavirus patients that otherwise wouldn't receive adequate treatment.

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@Pluto's Republic
with the exception of human test subjects.
There currently is no approved vaccination.
For anybody.

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@Pricknick

Israel has mysteriously been working on the CoronaVirus vaccine for three years and say that they will have it in a week or so.

They claim it is untested, but I certainly don't believe that for a minute.

Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine'

Israel has also miraculously invented a face mask that kills the CoronaVirus. They're working on a credible backstory before they start shipping.

Are the most potent coronavirus protection masks made in Israel?

Looks like Israel has "stumbled" into major windfall profits.

Meanwhile, there is much finger pointing between China, Iran, and Israel over who actually bio-engineered the COVID-19 virus in the first place.

There appears to be some evidence that the virus in Iran and Italy did not come from Wuhan.

BDS blowback, perhaps?

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@Pluto's Republic
Even I will wait for varification of a virus plot. Believable but still very possible ct.
As far as the jerusalem news, they have almost as many false stories as our msm. Almost.
Even then, both of your links say that there are no approved vaccines but they are in the pipeline.

There appears to be evidence that the virus in Iran and Italy did not come from Wuhan.

This would not be uncommon from a mutating virus. Please show what evidence you've found to support the belief that it's been human engineered. I don't scare easily.

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@Pricknick

...in a geopolitical essay that also described the ongoing multinational investigation of the human engineered COVID-19.China locked in hybrid war with US by Pepe Escobar.

The bio-engineering angle is not the topic of Escobar's essay. However, he mentions the fact of it in his opening paragraphs and gives a pretty good summary of the ongoing investigation. I am not familiar with the scientific evidence, but those who speak of it find it credible. I have been following the story for some time and have seen it referenced in many places. It has caused a public spat. The US State Department is engaging in an international argument over the allegations with counter-accusations of their own. This is making geopolitical news, but it is not reported in the US news cycle. I'll direct you to the essay I linked to, above, because the excerpt below is broadly sourced with links you can follow.

You might want to read the entire essay because it is reporting a related geopolitical situation that has evolved well beyond the older news that I am conveying here:

[EXCERPT] Among the myriad, earth-shattering geopolitical effects of coronavirus, one is already graphically evident. China has re-positioned itself. For the first time since the start of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in 1978, Beijing openly regards the US as a threat, as stated a month ago by Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference during the peak of the fight against coronavirus.

Beijing is carefully, incrementally shaping the narrative that, from the beginning of the coronovirus attack, the leadership knew it was under a hybrid war attack. Xi’s terminology is a major clue. He said, on the record, that this was war. And, as a counter-attack, a “people’s war” had to be launched.

Moreover, he described the virus as a demon or devil. Xi is a Confucianist. Unlike some other ancient Chinese thinkers, Confucius was loath to discuss supernatural forces and judgment in the afterlife. However, in a Chinese cultural context, devil means “white devils” or “foreign devils”: guailo in Mandarin, gweilo in Cantonese. This was Xi delivering a powerful statement in code.

When Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, voiced in an incandescent tweet the possibility that “it might be US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan” – the first blast to this effect to come from a top official – Beijing was sending up a trial balloon signaliing that the gloves were finally off. Zhao Lijian made a direct connection with the Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019, which included a delegation of 300 US military.

He directly quoted US CDC director Robert Redfield who, when asked last week whether some deaths by coronavirus had been discovered posthumously in the US, replied that “some cases have actually been diagnosed this way in the US today.”

Zhao’s explosive conclusion is that Covid-19 was already in effect in the US before being identified in Wuhan – due to the by now fully documented inability of US to test and verify differences compared with the flu.

Adding all that to the fact that coronavirus genome variations in Iran and Italy were sequenced and it was revealed they do not belong to the variety that infected Wuhan, Chinese media are now openly asking questions and drawing a connection with the shutting down in August last year of the “unsafe” military bioweapon lab at Fort Detrick, the Military Games, and the Wuhan epidemic. Some of these questions had been asked – with no response – inside the US itself.

Extra questions linger about the opaque Event 201 in New York on October 18, 2019: a rehearsal for a worldwide pandemic caused by a deadly virus – which happened to be coronavirus. This magnificent coincidence happened one month before the outbreak in Wuhan.

Event 201 was sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum (WEF), the CIA, Bloomberg, John Hopkins Foundation and the UN. The World Military Games opened in Wuhan on the exact same day.

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The US military team that was sent to Wuhan to compete performed miserably. They came in 47th in the competition.

They must have had their minds on something else in Wuhan.

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I do believe we now know why the US has no masks and has no tests.

The US may have done something unforgivable in China.
The American people are paying the price.
Only Israel is reaching out to us.

The dying Empire may be put out of its misery, but the Neocons will survive.
Where are they, anyway? Hiding in their bunkers?

Congress is cluelessly twisting in the wind, desperate to avoid putting any money in the hands of the people to breathe life into Main Street.
Depopulation.
Never forget.

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@Pluto's Republic I haven't delved into the ultimate genetic tracing of this CoV-1 variant. This represents the best way to trace the origins of the strain(s) currently ravaging the world. Epidemiology investigations were initiated too late in the sequence of disease passage to detect Patient zero. Currently George Webb has been highlighting Maatje Bernassi as patient zero. I have not checked his conclusion out. If this is true, then the origin COVID-19 can be affirmatively identified.

Until then, I shall do two things:
1. refrain from attribution of a geographic location of the virus, even whether ChiComs call it a Western Plot--who knows, it could be. Don't put anything past the neocons.

2. incriminated virus shall be referred to by me in future writings to COVID-19.

Another issue is the seriousness with which I communicate should be judged by content, not contiguity to other non-medical comments. When I discuss medical issues, I do not mislead by intention. The above genetic genealogy of the virus is an enlarging feature of knowledge. This knowledge may have been known years ago but definitely intimate virology which all of us are practically coerced by life and death to follow. Know your enemies. Peace does not guarantee peace in the future.

When I write of medical issues, please understand that I include the minute learn of it. Today. before reading this thread, I published an essay: Wu Flu brief note: the nose knows. Without regret, I will alter the title.

Appreciation to all who politely illustrate excesses often committed in my communication.

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@Alligator Ed

....in the technical details. I like that, as well. But just to be clear, I don't care what you call the virus. That's not an issue for me. I don't run a pc channel. I wanted to share only this most controversial scientific detail with you because I believe it is more important than the disease itself. Only a few will understand the full implications and possible consequences.

Your medical writing has always worked well for me. It's a familiar language and many here are technically fluent, surprisingly enough. Facts are facts. We may place different emphasis on different parts and arrive at different strategic conclusions, but those are opinions. There's always room for a unique flourish when it comes to opinions.

And then, there's always the 'Wuhanic Plague'.

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@Pluto's Republic I have been suffering a case of foot-in-mouth disease. After reading a bit more, mind you, just a little bit more, the fact that 5 different viral strains of CoV-2 existed had escaped my notice. My bad. I thought there were only two; one called S and the other L. Now they are A, B, C, D, E. Funny thing. Fort Detrick had labs working on the c-virus before the outbreak.

So maybe Xi is correct. The CIA imported the virus to indirectly fuck Trump by submarining the economy--all the while shorting stocks and buying them back at bargain basement prices. Those mofo's stop at nothing to get what they want.

Forgot the name of Bill Gates pre-game running of Event 201 or something like that in October or September 2019, just a few months when gosh and golly the corona virus was unleashed upon the world--perhaps after a nice start in the warm incubators of Fort Detrick. Whadda coinkydink.

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@Alligator Ed

Very impressive. After the Detrick accident, things started to happen fast. It's hard sometimes to figure out just which one of the many Coup governments and juntas in DC did what.

Here's an 11 minute highlight reel from the Pandemic pre-enactment. Most are actors but the experts do blurt a few important clues. This event happened on the same day that 300 US military landed in Wuhan to fumble their way through The World Military Games.

Good times.

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Disproportionately strikes men, who are also over 60 years old, little wonder they're unsettled. Hate to say it, but we've met a great equalizer folks.

Senate Republicans, emerging from their closed-door lunch where they received the news about Paul, were extremely unsettled.

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There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier

Last I saw, they were still talking about it (in conferences, in person?). Looks like the same ball game to me.

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@tle

Clearly our congresscritters and their silly 18th century rules are more important than the needs of front line medical workers attending to the peasants.

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- Greta Thunberg

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@Hawkfish Little holes in the masks, gloves and at the chest area of the gowns. Good ventilation.

Diablo

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