Comments on: COVID and the lab: one of the most consistent things about Trump has been…

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Wed, 26 May 2021 13:44:08 +0000

!!! TILT !!!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-shut-down-wuhan-lab-investigation-probing-covid-19-origins-report

(Are there any eyebrows out there left to raise?)

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Wed, 26 May 2021 02:41:36 +0000

dh,

I have not forgotten Tedros’ role.

That clip of the journalist from Taiwan interviewing the WHO guy and his non response to her questions was INCREDIBLE!!

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Wed, 26 May 2021 02:39:33 +0000

@dh:

The Organ Grinder’s Monkey is worth a passing glance. But it’s the Inscrutable Organ Grinder who picks the tune.

By: dh

dh — Wed, 26 May 2021 02:28:01 +0000

Rufus, let not forget Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organisation and his role in all of this.

By: Zaphod

Zaphod — Wed, 26 May 2021 00:54:59 +0000

Population Density and that seemingly unfashionable thing, National Willpower to Actually do Meaningful Stuff seem to play a larger part than Distance. China is a Big Country.

Being able to jump in a train in Shanghai and hop off in Nanjing or Beijing not long after is no small thing. Waking up in Tokyo and deciding on the spur of the moment to go for lunch in Kyoto and then go take a few selfies at Himeji-jo before coming heading home isn’t something you really think you need. Until you have it.

But it depends, too, on the People. Everyone seems to get riled up when I point this out.

I’ll admit that one big dirty secret advantage the Chinese HSR has is that everyone knows that airspace gets shut down whenever any of the politburo fly. I mean totally shut down. They always claim it’s military maneuvers, but that ain’t it. So you can book HSR from Beijing to Wuhan knowing that it will depart and arrive on time. No need to worry about random 6 hour delay because Winnie the Pooh flew off to dally with Concubine No. 388.

Regardless of whether or not your country *has* High Speed Rail, if your country no longer has the ability to plan, design, and manufacture said HSR and all its bits and pieces without drowning in a sea of Big Dig Featherbedding and Incompetence, it’s really game over. You’re just waiting for the Barbarians.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51294/waiting-for-the-barbarians

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Wed, 26 May 2021 00:38:24 +0000

Concerning trains; The nearest stationi is twenty minutes away., So, cutting down the airlines’ requirements of early arrival to, say, half an hour, I need to leave an hour early to get to the station and haul my, more than likely limited, luggage inside. How fast is high speed for these purposes? I spent about two hours earlier today at 77mph. Had I been going in another direction, I’d have done the same for more hours less a stop for gas.
When I arrive, it’s not to the station but to the actual place I want to go. I have my stuff with me and don’t require some ground transport be provided–host picks me up, I rent, Uber, etc–and I have my vehicle for whatever business I wish to manage.
Then, when I feel like it, I get in my car and go home.
Seats are more comfortable, food is better, rest rooms less crowded, and I pick my company and entertainment. I can chat by phone with friends, or encourage a relation going through a hard time.
How far do I have to go to make the train, or the plane, superior modes?

By: Jeff+Brokaw

Jeff+Brokaw — Tue, 25 May 2021 17:20:26 +0000

Trump did not make himself into a billionaire by being bad at understanding the world around him.

By: om

om — Tue, 25 May 2021 14:29:09 +0000

Zaphod likes his trains to run on time. Can Do. One Child Policy. South China Sea. Tibet. Xuigar concentration camps. Strip mining the oceans of marine life. You can get a lot done with Can Do especially if you have the guns and don’t care who you Can Do to. Tiananmen Square and Great Leap Forward.

Blow some more smoke for your Hong Kong masters.

Oh, I forgot, it’s western civilization we’re worried about.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Tue, 25 May 2021 13:55:00 +0000

Should have been understood from the get-go.
IOW as soon as the Chinese denied it.
Things being what they are.
(And the more they denied it, the more true—as it were—it became.)

One can say the same for the Democrats and the current “Biden” administration who are doing “their” darnedest to emulate “their” great Chinese “ally”. (Not that “they” always succeed—i.e., on occasion, if usually by accident, “they” speak truth.)

And this is no doubt the reason why “Biden” and “Giggles” (i.e., “his” immaculately dressed “VPOTUS”) just don’t do press conferences, NO THEY DO NOT (as the good doctor might say—i.e., Seuss, not Fauci):
No one would believe ’em anyway.
And they know this.
And we know this.
So why bother….?

The result? They—reasonably, it must be said—just let True Jen Psaki do the lying, knowing full well that the squish media won’t challenge her except maybe to ask her how often she dyes her hair and whether it’s an organic rinse. Maybe. (Kinda like that old Greyhound Bus commercial… “Go Psaki! And leave the lying to her”…)

And so here we are…with a yawning credibility gap. (Actually, since this administration doesn’t even approach “credibility”, I’m not even sure the word can be used….)

By: Rufus T. Firefly

Rufus T. Firefly — Tue, 25 May 2021 13:09:02 +0000

dh,

Thanks so much for posting that link regarding Dr. Wenliang. I remember seeing footage of him on television back in December, I think, then nothing. There are some news reports tracing back to the December time frame in an attempt to show the virus lab theory was always feasible, but I haven’t seen any of them reference Dr. Wenliang. I honestly was starting to think I had dreamt it.