@phillybluesfan  
as a response to global warming / climate chaos, eh?

Will city planners be scrapping the idea of having reserved HOV (high-occupancy vehicle) lanes on highways now?

A group of us are learning to be backpack hikers, with the goal of eventually trekking all of the Sheltowee Trace. But this damned virus has put that on hold.

[video:https://youtu.be/KBhTP3l83W4]

I asked a friend (eyes/nose/throat MD with Mayo Clinic ties) when he would feel safe sharing a car ride.

I think his answer applies to returning to athletic clubs or indoor dining ---"One month after taking a safe and effective vaccine for SARS COV-2 ,earliest date late Spring or early summer 2021 but most likely not until 2022."

Be well

@Not Henry Kissinger It was the worst case of flu that I have ever experienced. I was down for three weeks with it. I ran a temperature of at least 101.5 for four days with the most excruciating headache ever which took forever to go away even after my temperature dropped. Like you, most of my normal ailments concentrate in my sinuses, but this one was different. I had a dry cough, but it was not deep in my chest (thank goodness) and I also experienced nausea and diarrhea during the second week which was quite unusual for me.

late last year before we all even heard about it.

I was coming back from a family wedding in Australia and transferred though Fiji, where I sat in the densely packed terminal close the gate where planeload after planeload of travelers to and from China filed past.

Back at home six days later the symptoms started. Some vomiting early but mostly a low-grade fever and a heavy migraine-like headache that didn't quit for about three days. Also had a bad cough but no runny nose. I remember saying how weird it all was because whenever I get sick it almost always starts in my sinuses, yet I never had any nasal symptoms whatsoever throughout the whole term.

Laid me on my back for a solid two weeks, and even after I became ambulatory again I just wasn't right for another month. Patients talk about the 'malaise' and I definitely had that - run down and fuzzy and frustrated that whatever you do you just can't seem to shake it.

That whole experience went on for a little less two months (50 days?), but then just as I began to finally feel better the illness came back - this time in my throat, and I completely lost my voice for nearly a week (which has never happened to me before) accompanied by strong but milder headaches and yet more malaise lasted for at least another couple of weeks.

Finally, after a little more than three months I began to feel something like my old self, and the symptoms haven't returned.

Here's the kicker: I flew through Fiji the beginning of NOVEMBER - make of that what you will.

@Snode @Snode
The country has 1.4 billion people and at least 1 billion people were required by law to wear a mask when they went out in public.

They started buying the PPE in late January until the end of February as well as increasing domestic production exponentially. It was no secret they were preparing for a dangerous epidemic in the country. It was not kept secret.

I personally followed the COVID-19 news coming out from China almost from the beginning (Jan 7) just by watching English language Chinese YouTube videos available to anyone who cared to look. I watched them building the two special hospitals designed especially for treating contagious patients (wards had negate pressure to prevent infection) from the dirt up with live feeds for 10 days. I watched as almost 20 huge military planes flew into the Wuhan airport at the very moment these hospitals were completed bringing tons of materiel and thousands of military medical personnel. I watched these very same medical personnel welcome patients brought by ambulance and roll them into the hospital for treatment.

Australian media is arguably the very worst source in reporting on China during this period. EVERYTHING China does is written up with a negative bias. When Wuhan went into lockdown they raged it was the worst abuse of human rights violations in the world. Then they wrote that China completely failed to contain the virus. They scoured Chinese media to find the odd person upset and screaming in the street. Pictures of people who died from a stoke were used to prove how rampant the disease was raging. Constant barrage of negative spin, repeated over and over. It's even worse on the Tubes.

Beware the spin given to "defective face masks from China". There are different grades in face masks. The N95 rated masks are not the same as the KN95. Due to shortages of the N95 masks (which are more difficult and expensive to make) the CDC said the KN95 could be used. Three weeks later they changed their mind and rejected them as defective. Many US manufacturers were also found to be supplying defective masks but this is not widely reported.

China has strict new rules for the export of face masks. They must be certified for their use and the orders must be confirmed with the bill of lading. Too many foreign purchasers were ordering the wrong product because the price was cheaper. As soon as this was done, the Chinese government was accused of stopping masks from being shipped. The same thing with test kits from China.

The US wants free and open trade from China but when the country stops faulty product from being shipped they scream government interference. This is a well planned propaganda game by the Five Eyes controlled media. We saw it working in high gear after 9-11 to gin up conflict with Iraq. It's China's turn now but they won't take it laying down.

the pandemic is being managed to maximize profit for big pharma." You hit it on the head. That's the one thing that is constant these days. Every disruption is managed for maximum profit. In Katrina there was no profit, at least until they dispersed the poors and remade the city into what they wanted.

Today, millions paid to producers to make masks, who have no experience in producing masks, and have so far produced none. Media outrage? Nope, they spend more time on cute vids pulled from social media.

I promised to not comment on the C19 anymore....(I guess I lied)... but if the virus was edited, I think China would have had more data on the disease. On the other hand if the reports of Chinas rapid stockpiling are true, maybe they knew what was coming.

@CB to Ms. Webb's video asap.

together in a backgrounder of the current COVID-19 pandemic. It's either a lot of coincidences or some very scary shiite is afoot.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDar_CtOzWM&list=PLNO2HNEzarA8F-0DtKkcsG...

@Azazello
this Mutha, can't believe what Biden said back in the days. If one just could understand the things being said by politicians when they happen and not just years later. Will watch "The Weight of Chains" later. I am more or less reading the whole day on C99p. It's my drug.

Do you have a 'papa's day' in the US? If yes, we have one here and most people can't stand it, but if you have one over there, don't drink too much beer to celebrate it.

Cheers to lookout for another excellent Weekly Watch.

C99p is a great site.

RIP Little Richard.

I served soul food brunch to Little Richard every Sunday for a year while waitressing at Aunt Kizzy’s Back Porch in LA. I was a college student. He tipped me a crisp $100 bill each week on a $75 breakfast with friends. This was 30 years ago. Helped me so much. God rest his soul. https://t.co/L0vo1tPdBv

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 9, 2020

An interesting piece from Caitlin Johnstone: Internet Censorship, Ego Death, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
I thought this was good, from The Duran:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZelUyVB6WQ width:500 height:300]
Here's a link to the documentary they talk about in the above vid: The Weight of Chains
The film is two hours long but well worth watching. It's a good reminder, a short course on the destruction of Yugoslavia, the New World Order, the Washington Consensus, the perversion of NATO and the birth of "humanitarian intervention".
Happy Mutha's Day

@Azazello
bringing up some of these facts. I got absolutely mauled with little to no support.

R2P was/is held sacrosanct by the majority there. When faced with the many failures they simply go silent. But the moment it is dredged up to be used for another regime change op (Ukraine, Syria) they climbed right back on board in a flash completely oblivious to the past. It was a very effective DNC Pavlovian trigger point at TOS - like holding up a dead fish in front of trained seals.

RIP Little Richard.

I served soul food brunch to Little Richard every Sunday for a year while waitressing at Aunt Kizzy’s Back Porch in LA. I was a college student. He tipped me a crisp $100 bill each week on a $75 breakfast with friends. This was 30 years ago. Helped me so much. God rest his soul. https://t.co/L0vo1tPdBv

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 9, 2020

An interesting piece from Caitlin Johnstone: Internet Censorship, Ego Death, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
I thought this was good, from The Duran:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZelUyVB6WQ width:500 height:300]
Here's a link to the documentary they talk about in the above vid: The Weight of Chains
The film is two hours long but well worth watching. It's a good reminder, a short course on the destruction of Yugoslavia, the New World Order, the Washington Consensus, the perversion of NATO and the birth of "humanitarian intervention".
Happy Mutha's Day

@The Liberal Moonbat @The Liberal Moonbat
worth of farm produce in the first three months of this year despite the shut-down. They are scheduled to buy $20 billion of soybeans, pork, beef and poultry this year under the terms of Trump's new trade deal. If anything goes awry with US producers for the domestic market (increased prices, shortages), China will get blamed.

...thoughts/insights on this? At face value, it sounds like a good thing: https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/us-start-buying-3-billion-dair...

@Roy Blakeley
just now - but was reading a while back some Defense Dept. testimony before Congress in 2015 or so on bio-warfare threats and it touched on

The only people that would benefit from releasing an engineered coronavirus would be someone who wanted to kill lots of people and wreck the world economy.

Reason I remember is because they gave another plausible scenario which had never occurred to me: the use of a bioweapon that was not necessarily designed just for mass death, but one in which the perpetrator held the only means of treating or preventing the disease. This could enable direct intimidation, but could be possibly even more effective if the outbreak was attributed to a natural occurrence or to another party.

This would have the effect of creating a dependence on the part of the targeted population and the perpetrator could be regarded as the benevolent savior...

Also, it's pretty well established that there have been attempts made at creating ethnically-targeted bioweapons. Given China's multi-decade interest in Africa and the nature of their build-up there: enclaves that are akin to military bases without overt weaponry, the near-exclusive use of Chinese
materials and labor for their projects, etc. - about the only thing wrong with Africa from the Chinese perspective (along the lines of what I used to semi-jokingly tell Australian friends) is that it is full of Africans. I can see China considering the utility of a targeted epidemic as a way of addressing this "problem".

Social media and MSM are working overtime to discredit those who claim that there is an agenda here to use fear to convince people that the only possible deliverance from this crisis (probably should have quotes on that) are the Big Pharma/Global Health cabal.

Question people should be asking themselves is why, if all that is so ludicrous and wrong that, instead of just refuting it they are attempting to ridicule, censor and silence anyone going off the official messaging?

Think its because the PTB have your best interests at heart?

but the notion that Fauci funded recent corona virus gain of function experiments is not accurate. First, Fauci doesn't fund any grants. They are funded through a competitive peer review process. Stating that Fauci funded grants reflects an active attempt to mislead or a serious lack of understanding. There was a joint grant between a lab at the University of North Carolina and the Virology Institute in Wuhan that carried out and published some gain of function experiments. (I think they were actually carried out in Chapel Hill.) These experiments were permissible under the NIH guidelines that were in effect at the time, and were directed toward figuring out how to respond to/deal with corona viruses. The NIH guidelines were subsequently changed to make it impermissible to carry out such experiments with NIH funding. There was a sort of grandfather clause in the revised guidelines, that permitted previously approved work to be finished. There would be little incentive to continue such work in an academic setting in that it would not be publishable. It could be carried out in a bioweapons facility, but viruses are damnably bad weapons. The only people that would benefit from releasing an engineered coronavirus would be someone who wanted to kill lots of people and wreck the world economy. China, the US and the capitalist oligarchs certainly want to continue to benefit from the world economy, not wreck it. With respect to the coincidence of the virus emerging proximal to the Wuhan virology institute, the institute was put in an area that where there is a likelihood of zoonotic diseases emerging naturally in order to facilitate their study. The viral sequence doesn't suggest anything other than a natural origin. Novel, lethal coronaviruses emerge about every 10 years. This one is nasty because it is quite infective and has a goldilocks death rate--high enough to kill a lot of people but no so high as to be self limiitng.