Re: Books Banned in Utah.

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024, The Horny Goat wrote:

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:06:17 +0200, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2024, The Horny Goat wrote:
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On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 08:29:33 -0700, Paul S Person
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Given our librarians' choices of late in our local library I think
I'll trust my own instincts thank you very much.
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Though to their credit they did get a couple of interesting books on
COVID. I'm currently reading "What REALLY happened in Wuhan"

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China blocked WHO from investigating for 3 weeks, I do wonder what
_really_ happened there!

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I'm now about 2/3 of the way through that book and it seems that the
Chinese were doing 'gain of function research' (which translates into
'how can we make this coronavirus MORE infectious and thus more
dangerous' research) with a fair amount of cooperation from US
researchers despite numerous broken Chinese promises on lab access.
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The author is making a fairly strong case for the 'lab leak' theory
rather than deliberate release - thus culpable manslaughter not
murder.
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Interesting! Thank you for the 2/3 review. As someone said in some random
interview I vaguely remember... "the clue is in the name" (of the lab). ;)

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Having now finished the book the author clearly favored an accidental
lab leak due to poor security procedures followed by a Beijing
cover-up.
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One thing for sure - Beijing definitely knew what was going on before
North America or Europe and bought up all the surgical quality rubber
for masks they could before the word got out - and sold quite a bit of
it as a big profit. That much is proven beyond doubt.
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Yes, I don't think anyone can dispute that china was hiding something at the beginning. What, how and when, we'll never know, but they where hiding something.
As for the masks, I remember an interesting article 2 years in, where the newspaper listed the new corona millionaires. There were about 3-4 companies who by pure luck or who had the right connections (the founders were chinese-swedes) got their hands on massive amounts of masks, and in 2 years they earned from 30 million USD to around 5 million USD, which in a small country such as sweden raises some eyebrows since it was earned in only 2 years time, starting from very small numbers.