There is a plan. The FBI will put together a manhunt to catch the people who cause it!
As we read and process reports of a new COVID strain emerging, | want you to know that we are actively investigating, in multiple field offices, the cover-up of the origin of the COVID virus, along with associated matters requiring our attention. You deserve answers.
Yeah, Dan Bongino. Get a crack team of G-men together, give ’em tommy guns, and send them out there to track down, and arrest or kill, the gang responsible for genetic drift. That’s how authoritarian brains work.
Again with the debunked rubbish of a supposed cover-up too when we know the main person covering up the real seriousness of COVID was Trump…
What’s the bet they use this to whip up more xenophobia and bigotry too?
PS. On the last pandemic a good lego cartoon by the PRC here – Once upon a virus (China’s view) breifly but nicely summing things up here in just a minute and a half.
Oh, good grief. Trump and Musk cut funding to the CDC, NIH, HHS and now will not fund future Moderna mRNA vaccines. But, we’ve got Bongino on the trail of the origin of the COVID-19 virus. I realize Trump is desperate to somehow rewrite the history of his pandemic response, and place the blame on China, but five years later, who gives a damn if it came from a Wuhan animal market or a virology lab leak? What we really need going forward, instead of this absurd Pink Panther sleuthing, are safe and effective vaccines. I really, really hate this government.
And will we hear anything from conspiracy nuts like Bongino if they find no evidence of a conspiracy? Or will they just manufacture some to keep the MAGAts happy?
It’s really annoying that the dumbest people on the planet, and the worst people, need the lab hypothesis to be true to justify their actions (or inactions). Of course it was a lab leak, like the most recent Marburg outbreak, like the 1977 flu, take your pick, but numpties and conspiracy theorists buying into this to further their own deranged agendas makes it really hard to argue the case.
As to the new Covid variants, we had 8 really good months, but now 2 new variants have emerged that will become dominant, and all the goodies are there, increased immune invasion, ACE2 affinity off the charts. “Razor blade throat” seems to be a prominent feature (this means laryngitis btw), enjoy!
At the same time, the Trump admin has just cancelled a 600 million contract with Moderna to develop flu vaccines, this includes bird flu. I mean, what could possibly go wrong.
I have to admit, China’s got a solid grip on their troll game. It doesn’t help that America gives them so much material to work with,
And they’re gonna do what, exactly? Nuke Wuhan? Send SEAL teams to take out a few mid-level Chinese officials in China? I’m sure that’ll go over real well…
Of course it was a lab leak…
And “of course” you have evidence of this, right?
I’m sure that those Tommy guns will really come in handy, when one of the senior MAGA heads like the Cheeto Mussolini or Marj Trainwreck Greene get COVID. “Here’s a reporter who was seen coughing once a month before seeing Trump.” “We found someone who once said something negative about Dear Leader, so they likely want him dead”. “This news organization isn’t sufficiently loyal. Remember that the bullets are free, and you have zero accountability in using them.”
Here is the article that rorschach mentions in #5.
Another day, another stupid atrocity from the Trump regime.
Yeah, this totally wrecks our ability to repond to the next pandemics.
There are major advantages to the mRNA vaccines.
.1. They are very fast to design and make.
You just need a DNA or RNA sequence which takes a few days.
.2. They work very well, usually better than protein based vaccines.
The Chinese and Russian vaccines were protein based and they had a lot of trouble because they didn’t work very well.
One estimate I saw was that two doses of the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA vaccines were equal to 3 doses of the Chinese vaccines.
This matters a lot because followup drops off a lot as the number of required doses goes up.
A lot of people who got the first dose don’t keep going to the third dose.
There is a good possibility that I’m still alive because of the Covid-19 virus mRNA vaccines. I’ve got multiple risk factors and have had 5 doses so far, two plus the updates.
I also knew a few people who died before the vaccines became available and have seen two people in the last year or so die from Long Covid complications.
I’m sure those ‘answers’ we deserve will be really helpful filling space in obituaries.
there’s a meme going around (paraphrasing):
Solution to pandemic: militarized police.
Solution to inequality: militarized police.
Solution to climate change: militarized police.
etc.
Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a respected public health dr, advises everyone to stock up on Tamiflu and other cures:
https://x.com/DrEricDing/status/1799304142474940727
Speaking of pandemics:
Robert F*cking Kennedy Jr. Offers to Relocate Bird Flu-Infected Ostriches to the U.S. And we note for the record that Bird Flu can jump to hoomins, so great job Bobby-Junior, who got an assist from Dr. Quack:
“…He and Mehmet Oz, the former daytime TV host appointed by Trump as the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, have teamed up to bring the ostriches to Oz’s ranch in Florida. “
https://mockpaperscissors.com/2025/05/29/professional-courtesy-today/
@12,
“Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a respected public health dr”
Let’s just say he has his ups and downs, flirting with fame at times and getting way ahead of himself and facts. As to Tamiflu, from the last studies I read, its efficacy against bird flu is not assured at all.
@13,
“He and Mehmet Oz, the former daytime TV host appointed by Trump as the director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, have teamed up to bring the ostriches to Oz’s ranch in Florida.”
That is indeed the funniest thing I have read all day, in a doomy doomscroll kind of way. (If you want to read outright funny things, follow Sarah Jeong from Jezebel).
How can one emperor have no clothes so many times?
@Matt G:
Because the emperor’s attendants deported the entire family of the boy who told the truth to keep the emperor happy, and nobody else has dared speak up since.
Because the news media has been cowed into submission. Paramount just offered a $15 million bribe to Trump (to settle a lawsuit they would win easily) and he immediately rejected it and says he needs $25 million before he’ll approve their merger with Skydance
Odds of them paying up? 100%.
It’s important because if we knew where it came from and how it got to the Wuhan market (which certainly had a role in spreading it) that could tell us a lot about how to guard against future bat coronavirus threats, if nothing else – note that Covid was the third such outbreak, after the original SARS, and MERS. The Chinese authorities, BTW, still deny that it originated in China at all, claiming that it came into the country on frozen food packaging. But Bongino’s aim is probably to pin the blame on Anthony Fauci.
The country is fucked. Hard.
Dug through my Steam library for a bit and discovered Plague, Inc. has an update to bring the game world into 2025. I have a suspicion that America’s been made much easier to infect and much less effective in contributing to developing cures.
I’m not going to play to find out. Too depressing.
How would their response to the pandemic have been different once the virus had made it into the US if it came from a lab leak as opposed to the prevailing wisdom at the time?
shermanj @13
If true one would hope RFK Jr (embarrassment to his dad’s memory and family) and Oz personally drive the birds to Florida in a single enclosure vehicle without any precautions, given germ theory is false, and both contract bird flu and fucking die horribly. Ironically then bird flu would have done us a solid per public health outlook.
I do feel sorry for the ostriches having to hear RFK Jr and Oz quack continuously during the entire journey. That will rile them up surely.
Ostriches are dangerous enough without carrying disease so maybe they can do other nasty things to the hapless pair of Trump appointees who are wrecking our public health system. And if so I hope there’s footage so Casual Geographic could show it and comment comically on the carnage.
Next up, he’ll solve Climate Change by arresting climatologists.
Get a crack team of G-men together, give ’em tommy guns…
So old-fashioned! In about two weeks, we’ll have orbiting space lasers (the good white Christian cis-het kind) to zap them* from within the Golden Dome, funded by imaginary trillion-dollar deals from the
PersianArabian Gulf, for just such purposes.*For a given varying-by-the-day value of Them.
@tacitus, #18:
Not quite.
It’s because the billionaires who own the news media support what Trump is doing. They sponsor political campaigns; and in return, they get offered the chance to write a paragraph or two in a manifesto.
The media are not “the fourth estate, fighting the establishment on behalf of readers”. The media are the establishment, and have been for a long time now. They are not on your side.