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Ibtimes wrote:An aide to an influential king in Ivory Coast has said the monarch could order a procession of naked women to ward off coronavirus by seeking the protection of spirits.
The king of Sanwi, based in the southeast of the world's top cocoa grower, held a special exorcism ceremony last week seeking divine intervention to protect his three million subjects against the epidemic.
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Grumpy Gramps wrote:Ivory Coast King Seeks To Exorcise CoronavirusIbtimes wrote:An aide to an influential king in Ivory Coast has said the monarch could order a procession of naked women to ward off coronavirus by seeking the protection of spirits.
The king of Sanwi, based in the southeast of the world's top cocoa grower, held a special exorcism ceremony last week seeking divine intervention to protect his three million subjects against the epidemic.
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We absolutely do need that kind of protection, too! Why didn't we think of that in the first place..
wagyl wrote:You watch 30 minutes of a report which insists on calling it CCP Virus?
Mike Oxlong wrote:Wuhan is a sewer...
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/n ... -disposal/
Russell wrote:Vegan mum claims she can boost her immune system by drinking bizarre sperm smoothies
Can't wait until president Trump starts to promote blowjobs as medicine against the virus. And he will likely add that it only works if the recipient swallows.
matsuki wrote:Russell wrote:Vegan mum claims she can boost her immune system by drinking bizarre sperm smoothies
Can't wait until president Trump starts to promote blowjobs as medicine against the virus. And he will likely add that it only works if the recipient swallows.
You say that like it's a bad thing...
Coligny wrote:Normalcy has been...
Coligny wrote:Normalcy has been cancelled...
Japan's health ministry will introduce a system for health centers to report new coronavirus cases online instead of by hand-written faxes, phone or email - drawing praise from some but scorn from others wondering what took it so long.
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matsuki wrote:Coligny wrote:Normalcy has been cancelled...
You finally got the lightbar on!! (and then some!) How do you like it?
Is that a wrap? What about airflow to the radiator or am I missing something?
No current evidence to suggest coronavirus leaked from Wuhan research lab, agencies say
There is no current evidence to suggest that coronavirus leaked from a Chinese research laboratory, intelligence sources have told the Guardian, contradicting recent White House claims that there is growing proof this is how the pandemic began.
The sources also insisted that a “15-page dossier” highlighted by the Australian Daily Telegraph which accused China of a deadly cover up was not culled from intelligence from the Five Eyes network, an alliance between the UK, US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
British and other Five Eyes agencies do believe that Beijing has not necessarily been open about how coronavirus initially spread in Wuhan at the turn of the year. But they are nervous about getting involved in an escalating international situation.
On Sunday Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, said: “I can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory in Wuhan.”
No evidence was offered by Pompeo to back up his assertion but information has been circulating over the last month in the UK, US and Australia aimed at raising questions about the high security Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has long specialised in researching coronaviruses in horseshoe bats.
Stories have suggested that workers in the lab may not have always used full protective equipment, and that in one instance a bat urinated on a researcher who did not subsequently become ill.
But there is nothing to indicate a leak from the lab could have caused the pandemic, sources say.
Claims are even made that the virus was genetically engineered in Wuhan, although there is both scientific and intelligence agency agreement that there is no evidence for this.
American scientists who have worked with the Wuhan Institute add its safety standards are comparable to Western equivalents – and the prevailing theory is that the virus was passed onto humans via one of the country’s live animal markets.
Australia’s Daily Telegraph – a Sydney tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch – has been focusing on the Wuhan lab for several days, culminating in a weekend report which cited a 15-page dossier compiled, it said, by “concerned Western governments” amid an investigation by British and other members of the Five Eyes intelligence agencies.
Intelligence sources in Australia were quick to say they believed it was based on open source, public domain material. One told the Guardian they believed the information that appeared in the News Corp title was most likely to have originally come from the US: “My instinct is that it was a tool for building a counter-narrative and applying pressure to China. So it’s the intent behind it that’s most important. So possibly open source leads with a classification slapped on it.”
Downing Street said that the UK did not comment on intelligence matters – although British sources also said they did not recognise the dossier as based on classified information provided by the country’s spy agencies.
Downing Street said it would not comment on intelligence matters, but a No 10 spokesman said: “Clearly there are questions that need to be answered about the origin and spread of the virus, not least so we can ensure we are better prepared for future global pandemics.”
Neil O’Brien, a Conservative MP and secretary of the China Research Group, said that Beijing could help fend off speculation with greater transparency: “If their government were less secretive and authoritarian they would cooperate more and so potentially put to bed wilder ideas about the origins of the virus.”
Last week, the New York Times reported that White House officials, led by deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger, a former China reporter with the Wall Street Journal, pressed the US agencies to gather information that could support any lab theory.
A report in the Washington Post two weeks later highlighted a leak of US diplomatic cables from 2018, claiming that a site visit showed the WIV had insufficient appropriately trained technicians for the high security work.
The lab itself says it is distressed by talk of leaks. Scientific American re-edited an interview with the virologist Shi Zhengli last week to address “the tenuous suggestion” of the lab theory, and noted the “genetic sequence” of Sars-CoV-2, the scholarly term for coronavirus, “does not match any her lab had previously studied”.
Charles Parton, a former foreign office official and senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, said: “People pushing these sort of lines are doing everybody a disservice.
“It will inevitably prompt a Chinese reaction at a time when there is a need for a proper scientific understanding of its causes, and, in the longer term, to work together to stop pandemics happening again.’’
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Wage Slave wrote:Yes, I think that's a fair comment. So politicised has it become that since the injecting light or bleach debacle the incumbent president has done little else other than finger point and ruminate and hint and imply at China. This is a failure of leadership because the investigation into origin and cause of the pandemic is really not the priority at the moment. He should be concentrating on the response to the pandemic. Unfortunately, that is not something he wants to do and not something that excites his supporters. Creating a hot row with China is very convenient because it distracts from his own performance and is juicy, red and oft racist meat to his base. So yeah, why should China feel any need to co-operate at this stage and when the president's objectives are so partisan, damaging and self serving. I wouldn't. I would tell him to go and do one.
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