Is he evil or stupid? Or do I lack the scientific sophistication to grasp his good intention?

Was this all just sloppy over confident VIP health officials inadvertently unleashing the pandemic on the world? Or was it just icky bat poop? Or are Fauci and his colleagues diabolically evil?

I never could stand the preening little man. But my very old dad hangs upon his every word. It’s truly appalling.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/451637/

Rubbish. Robert Welch never made much sense and aficionados of Kennedy Assassination literature make sense only when they stick close to discrete bits of data.

Some suggest that the numbers are easily manipulated—according to the political end desired.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/caught-red-handed-cdc-changes-test-thresholds-virtually-eliminate-new-covid-cases-among

That’s true of flu viruses, but the COVID virus seems to mutate more slowly and with less differentiation from the initial virus than flu does. So I’m not at all sure you are correct. However, we may need booster shots if the protection afforded by the vaccine is shown to diminish significantly over time. But maybe not even that.

Western media, being so like minded, will ignore, obfuscate, or lie about anything deemed not serving their interest. Only politicians are held in lower esteem.

Regarding the virus itself, it will end up mutating in such a way that the current vaccines are ineffective. Big pharma will save us though! Yearly vaccines with updated mRNA genetic material will be required for the foreseeable future.

Possibly Huns, Russians, or the Sea People.

The CCP recently announced that they’re creating 100 new Wuhan style biolabs. No way is the motivation humanitarian. Any interest in protecting chinese citizens from disease is strictly viewed from a cost/benefit analysis of what best serves the Party.

Zaphod,

Re: “Totalitarian yes. Ruling Party Leninist yes. Hyper Nationalistic Mercantilist Winner Takes All Foreign Policy yes.

What is this ‘Communism’ you speak of though? PRC hasn’t been remotely Marxist for a long time now, despite some vestigial symbolism and rhetoric. CCP today is run pretty much along the lines of the old Right Wing (by antithesis) KMT — which itself was organised along strict Leninist party discipline lines.”

Strongly disagree that the Mercantilist faction calls the shots. In the past few years, there have been several very wealthy mercantilists who discovered just how unimportant they are in the eyes of the Party.

Xi and the CCP are as dedicated to Marxist tenets as ever Lenin and Mao were… Mao’s successor Deng Xiaoping, persuaded the upper echelons of the CCP that adopting economic aspects of State controlled capitalism would allow the Party to challenge America in an Economic Long March. It wouldn’t surprise me if he pointed to the Nazi revival of Germany’s economic and military capabilities as what a socialistic, top down controlled governance could accomplish. Any objection to his proposed strategy that pointed out that Hitler had lost could be easily rebutted. By pointing out that Hitler had acted prematurely and stupidly precipitated a two front war. And that unlike Hitler, China was patient and would not act until certain of victory. A path they are demonstrably following, having gotten by the Trump ‘road bump’.

How China is run today is in service to the goal; Marxism triumphant over the world with lip service to China being “first among equals”. Lip service because today, the Chinese are the most racist society in the world. Its racism is covert rather than overt which makes it easy to deny and/or overlook.