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May 21, 2020
Moving my Writing to substack
I’m be writing from here:
April 27, 2020
Ms. Tayag-
Ms. Tayag-
Forgive me, but are you an epidemiologist, or a virologist, or even a trained journalist? Have you read any of the the literature — or even a small cross-section of it?
How about the phylogenetic papers on the evolutionary genomics?
Can you reference the library or existing reseach corpus of the related papers going back to 2003, and cross-reference the peer-reviews, one by one?
No?
How about identifying the problematic identities and nationalities associated with early research on coronavirus in bat reservoirs and the still lingering problems at Wuhan reported by American scientists who were hired to observe the BSL-4 protocols of that lab?
Which papers in Nature, or Lancet, or other periodicals are you referring to specifically?
Which researchers? From what institutions?
What of declassified intelligence reports or the latest scholarship of the same category published in Foreign Affairs, or Intelligence periodicals?
I apologise but you have no business writing about this topic — and I question the temerity of your op-ed style piece that “clears things up” about “ a Wuhan lab.” Why is it that “writers” on Medium do no appreciable, serious research — especially in these matters, and feel they are somehow ordained to proffer an opinion? No, people interested having an educated opinion read voluminous amounts of research before we arrive at conclusions. We don’t read a few articles and pass on a half-baked opinion.
Journalistically, this is plainly irresponsible. Scientifically, it is fool-hardy and dangerous.
First, academic lab science is not a casual pursuit where one posits hard and fast “opinions” to satiate people. Second, BSL-4 labs are require the highest possible level of security measures.
There is no recognized current consensus regarding the origin, presence and release of the virus, nor if the BSL-4 protocols were or were not abided in Wuhan.
We DO NOT HAVE a full picture of what happened in Wuhan.
Nothing has been “cleared up”.
Scientific consensus seems to point at a natural origin, but we do not know that conclusively. Most virologists do believe that is “natural” in origin, but as of yet inconclusive as to the novel variation known as Sars-cov-2 .
Bats are a well known reservoir species for coronaviruses. Bats were also resevoir to SARS and MERS. However, COVID-19 is a novel mutation, never seen before complication of a coronavirus. The science we have right now does not identify the specific, genomic originality of it. None of it’s evolutionary genomics have been unraveled or cleared up permanently. If that were the case we’d be much closer to a vaccine.
The US Intelligence Community, of which I am an independent contractor, is notoriously at odds with Trump, last week announced it was looking into possible scenarios for accidental leakage at Wuhan. Just this morning the FT said the the EU warned China about spreading false propaganda about the Wuhan facility. here are also geopolitical interests at stake for the Chinese and the US that have a measure of influence in the matter. The matter is massively complex — and has not been “unraveled” not even close.
The other issue with you poorly written cover that you make absolutely no mention of is that the real culprit is ACE-2 spike glycoproteins. These are found in bats, and pangolin, but the “zoonotic spillover” that happens, only happens when the intermediary species and humans have a match therof. The furin cleavage site of that protein, located at s1, s2 in the viral genomics is ground zero for the very, specific and deadly genomic mutation that makes COVID-19 what it is. According to most pathologists, there still remains a lot of mystery as to its specific virulence.
I am not a trained virologist, but I am a trained analyst and journalist.
I have read the virology and phylogeny of the disease for my clients, and consulted with various officials, one of who is the head of the G7 Pandemic response team. This has taken weeks. You can look at a smattering of my own research here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1KCkQgHzl2b24E-VXVV22JN5yJxe4CTqv
Have you done any of this research before you announce that it has been clearly “unraveled”?
I doubt that highly.
April 25, 2020
Forgive me, but the words ‘sexist tripe’ comes to mind.
Forgive me, but the words ‘sexist tripe’ comes to mind. Which is unfortunate because my wife is an Alpha and you do her and women like her a disservice. Apologies in advance but writing something that is rather vapid to elevate something that needn’t be is typical on Medium. You see the other thing Alpha people do is lead by example and they never, ever, sleep with dogs. One wakes up with fleas.
The word sexist tripe comes to mind.
The word sexist tripe comes to mind. Which is unfortunate because my wife is an Alpha and you do her and women like her a disservice by writing something that is rather vapid. Apologies in advance. You see the other thing Alpha people do is lead by example and they never, ever, sleep with dogs.
April 23, 2020
April 13, 2020
An Answer to the Ultimate Gaslighting
An Answer to the Ultimate Gaslighting
Photo by Daniel Páscoa on UnsplashTrigger warning: I drop the F bomb a lot.
Yeah, I’m sorry but cannot put on the cheerleader outfit and shake my pom-poms for another round of…
Blame the media…
Blame the President…
Blame the marketing professionals…
No, no, no. Absolutely not.
You know how you avoid being “gaslit”?
You take some fucking responsibility for the situation you are in and you take a stand. You stop being a fucking door mat.
Back up. About a year ago, I was living Silicon Valley. Hated it. Hated the place, the people, the traffic, the noise. I felt trapped.
I listened to David Goggins book — “Can’t hurt me”. It’s a blunt, macho, and in many ways, offensive book, but boy did that book change a lot of people’s lives.
You know why?
Because he called out the root problem in our society.
Laziness. Apathy. Blaming others. Being a fucking whiner. Not getting off your ass and solving your own fucking problems.
So I fucking moved. To a horse farm. I proposed a life together to the woman I adore. I dropped the car, the clothes, the bullshit, the media, the bitching about the vapid “technocratic elite”.
I popped smoke, cleared out, changed my life.
I’m happier. I control my life. I don’t buy useless shit, we try and grow most of our own food, we don’t watch to much television, and if we could, we’d likely throw our phones in the river.
Simple.
So in plain English, unless you are fucking slow, or were living under a fucking rock or locked away at Gitmo since 1980, you know ALL OF THIS already and you’ve been choosing it.
That’s right — you CHOSE to live in a society that is fucked up.
You know how screwed up the USGOV is, you know that the politicians and technocracts don’t give a rat’s ass about you, you know how marketing works, you know how consumerism works, and if you fall for the “Ultimate Gaslighting,” you are a lazy, and I hate to say it — stupid.
Did society make you that way? Or do you continually choose stupid because it’s easier than participating in democracy?
Oh, right, sorry again. Democracy is not a fucking spectator’s sport.
Iraq War on false grounds — were you out there protesting?
Black people being shot on the way to the convenience store? You called your representatives right?
Lead in the water in Flint?
Pipeline though an Indian reservation?
The gutting of healthcare?
The election of a buffoon?
The overvaluation of an entire economy that was filled with fluff companies?
You were gaslit then too?
Oh. I’m sorry. Here’s a therapy voucher.
The author’s error comes mid-passage. “We don’t have time to do anything about this…”
Bullshit. We have plenty of time. We waste time on nonsense because we do not have priorities as citizens.
So, if you have your head buried in a bag of Fritos and your arm stuck in a twelve-pack of Bud-light, you have plenty of time.
You’re just fucking lazy.
If you have your phone glued to your fucking head and you can’t stop swiping fashion, sports and celebrity nonsense…
You’re just fucking lazy.
I appreciate that 116k people are “clapping” on a social media platform for this drivel.
No thanks.
We need to get off our asses and take back our planet and democracy and stop creating theories about how the bad guys are fooling us.
We are fooling ourselves.
Take some responsibility.
