Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

New York's governor forcing nursing homes to take COVID-positive people might have had something to do with it as well.

 

True as that is statewide, these are just the life expectancy numbers from New York City - where we have relatively fewer nursing homes. It doesn't take into account upstate and suburban long term care numbers.

It was bad everywhere, but it wasn't just old folks here.

N.Y.C. Life Expectancy Dropped 4.6 Years in 2020, Officials Say

When adjusted for age, the premature mortality rate in 2020 of Hispanic New Yorkers increased by 73 percent, by 56 percent for Asian New Yorkers, by 50 percent for Black New Yorkers and by 21 percent for white New Yorkers.

 

yep

 

Nah. DQ is retired.

 

We're hoping to retain you on a consultancy basis.

Welcome back.

 

You finally went Johnny Paycheck? Good on ya!

 

Oh.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/15/covid-origins-china-mystery/

For example, they related the case of a mysterious accident in the summer of 2019 inside a government-run biomedical complex in Lanzhou, in north-central China. A failure occurred in a sanitation system that was supposed to kill germs in a vaccine plant’s waste. “Millions of airborne microbes began seeping invisibly from exhaust vents and drifting into nearby neighborhoods,” The Post reported. “The leaking pathogens were bacteria that cause brucellosis, a common livestock disease that can lead to chronic illness or even death in humans if not treated. Nearly a month passed before the problem was discovered and fixed, and four months before the public was informed. By then, at least 10,000 people had been exposed, with hundreds developing symptomatic illnesses.”

Could a similar malfunction have occurred in Wuhan? Possibly. An 18-month investigation by the minority oversight staff of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the last Congress examined biosafety worries about high-containment laboratories in Wuhan in the months just before the pandemic outbreak. The probe’s interim report was made public in October, and a much larger final report, which we have read, is to be released shortly by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.). The investigators have documented a number of biosafety issues that arose at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2019, including concerns about limited availability of resources, equipment and trained personnel. Robert Hawley, a U.S. biosafety expert who advised the Senate investigators, told The Post of a broader problem in China: “It is very, very apparent that their biological safety training is minimal.

 

My Guy Hotez™

 

There's an agenda!

From who? Bezos?

 

The West presumably, to demonize China.

The science is still sketchy. Why the Post wants to advance an argument against China without better proof than this? Your guess is as good as mine.

But if you're landing on

What really happened in Wuhan? The mystery remains. China holds — and should provide — some of the answers.

while ignoring lots of scientific evidence to the contrary, you're arguing from rhetorical weakness, not strength.

 

The scientific evidence is by and large whatever China said it was, isn't it?

We don't trust the journalists on this one. No siree.

 

The scrapping over the Covid origin theorizing is one of the most head-scratching cases of rushing-to-one's-tribe I've ever witnessed. Just because the people I hate said X happened doesn't mean X didn't happen.