That’s one thing the fascist right now brings to the table. There’s that fear that if we’re a public servant who doesn’t do exactly what they want, we might be the victim of stochastic terror.
Furthermore, the most likely year for the next pandemic to happen is next year. And this statement is always true, for every point in human history.
To explain: Every year has some baseline chance of having a pandemic. Say it’s 1%. Well, then, there’s a 1% chance of a pandemic next year. And there’s also a 1% chance of a pandemic two years from now… but it won’t be the “next pandemic” if one this year beats it to it. So two years from now only has a 0.99% chance of being the “next pandemic”. And so on for each subsequent year.
Wait.
That’s confusing.
Possibly just to me.
Are you saying there’s percentage of a chance, every year, of a pandemic?
Subsequent years that percentage increases. And continues to add up every year there is not a pandemic?
Am I understanding?
Yes. More or less the same percentage of a chance each and every year.
No. The percentage does not increase every year. Instead, the chance of it being the next pandemic decreases every year, because it could happen sooner—in a previous year.
In other words, the chance of the next pandemic being 100 years from now is fairly low…because it will likely happen sooner than that.
Yes, Rand Paul is a despicable liar. He absolutely disgusts me.
His new book “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service” came out today.
Yes. If Fauci is responsible for causing the pandemic, then Trump is not the guy who massively failed to respond to a natural disaster, resulting in unparalleled death. He’s just the guy who massively failed to respond to a human-caused disaster, resulting in unparalleled death, and never noticed that the guy responsible was standing next to him during countless press conferences. Why this would make Trump look better is a question for the ages.
The DNI report is good place to start:
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Report-on-Potential-Links-Between-the-Wuhan-Institute-of-Virology-and-the-Origins-of-COVID-19-20230623.pdf
There are two levels of debunking here. There is the idea that COVID was originally leaked from WIV, which is likely untrue but not a bonkers conspiracy theory.
Then the idea that the NIH grant and Fauci personally had anything to do with it. Which is absolutely bonkers
I have been watching some of Fauci’s press tour and I really like the man. He does a good job of explaining the problems they had dealing with the AIDS crisis and takes responsibility for his part. I also had forgotten what it was like to hear an intelligent, thoughtful scientist talk about the Covid virus and vaccine rather than raving lunatics. Between him and John Roberts’ secretly recorded tapes, my faith in some of humanitiy is almost restored.
I have this ‘canned comment’ as a general proposition, but it fits the RW need to identify bogeymen for every single issue rather handily:
So, their ad hoc sacrificial lamb for COVID was Fauci, and – to a lesser degree – Drs. Birx and Redfield (CDC) and Bill Gates.
Without the aforementioned piñatas, many difficult questions would have demanded to be faced. To wit:
Who did the CDC, NIH, and NIAID keep posted? To whom did Peter Navarro send his memoranda (January 2020, warning of of likely mass Coronavirus death)? To whom did the intelligence community give advance notice of a pandemic? Who defunded the CDC? Who fired the American epidemiologist embedded with the Chinese IN China to monitor and work on such diseases? Who disbanded the NSC’s Global Health Unit? Who was in a position to replenish the Strategic National Stockpiles?
Also, according to Dear Leader, if CHINA had acted sooner, more lives would have been saved. But the same is NOT true of the USA??
Hard-right? I guess that does describe the GOP.
I for one have replaced “GOP” with “RWT” = “Reactionary Wacko Traitors” for all purposes. I do not believe I am being hyperbolic; merely accurate.
You’re forgetting that Covid was a plandemic involving a fake virus no worse than the flu (if viruses even exist) which was deliberately released as a weapon of mass genocide which could easily be overcome by universally safe, cheap remedies purchased at supermarkets and feed stores.
That’s the relentless logic we’re dealing with from the Fauci-as-Satan crowd.
Right? It’s head spinning.
Well the Kansas Attorney General is doing something about this: