YES, TUCKER, BUT FEW SCIENTISTS CLASSIFY CAMELS AS FISH

Daily Caller founder & Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson says of the deadly coronavirus' origins: 

"[M]any in  the intelligence world... suspected  right away that the story the  Chinese government  was telling about this virus was almost certainly a lie. 

The first indication of that was the torrent of obvious nonsense coming from official sources in Beijing.

Initially, Chinese officials claimed the virus had jumped from an obscure, scaly animal called a pangolin, which was sold in the Wuhan wet market. That explanation didn’t make sense. Wet markets are seafood markets. Pangolins are mammals. So for that matter are bats."

ALAS FOR TUCKER, THE CALLER REPORTS:

Here’s A List Of Some Of The Most Unusual Animals, Reptiles Available At A Typical Wuhan Wet Market
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Vendors at Wuhan, China’s so-called wet markets sell everything from peacocks to kangaroos, and even an occasional camel or cat, according to reports in February.

Experts say these wet markets are where coronavirus, or COVID-19, originated in early December 2019 before hitting the United States, where it has killed nearly 3,000 people. Clerks in the market list crocodiles, wolf pups and cats as menu items, the South China Morning Post reported in February.

New York Times investigative reporter Muyi Xiao posted in a Jan. 20 tweet what he said was a copy of the menu
Here are some of the animals included in the picture Xiao posted:

• Peacocks
• Bats
• Snakes
• Foxes
• Deer
• Dogs 
• Ostriches
• Camels
• Hedgehogs

NPR’s Jason Beaubien explained in a Jan. 31 article why people call them wet markets.

“I visited the Tai Po wet market in Hong Kong, and it’s quite obvious why the term ‘wet’ is used,” he wrote at the time.

“Live fish in open tubs splash water all over the floor. The countertops of the stalls are red with blood as fish are gutted and filleted right in front of the customers’ eyes,” Beaubien noted.
He added: “Melting ice adds to the slush on the floor. There’s lots of water, blood, fish scales and chicken guts. Things are wet.”
Scientists say the virus made its appearance through a process that ends in a the creation of a zoonotic disease, a virus that leaps from animals to people.

Here’s the process, according to researchers.

Wild and exotic animals are mixed with domesticated species in an environment that weakens the animals’ immune systems, leading to a mix of genetic code that can spread from one species to another, according to biologist Kevin Olival

WILL THE STRATEGIC DISINFECTANT INITIATIVE MAKE CORONAVIRUS IMPOTENT AND OBSOLETE?

The White House Office Of American Innovation

has risen to the President's daring challenge:

“Supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and... supposing you brought the light inside the body, either through the skin or some other way. And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute --  is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside, or almost a cleaning?"

   with a brilliant new Strategic Disinfectant Initiative:

But to be fair, stay tuned :

A trial to see whether two anti-malarial drugs could prevent Covid-19 has begun in Brighton and Oxford.

Chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine or a placebo will be given to more than 40,000 healthcare workers from Europe, Africa, Asia and South America.

All the participants are staff who are in contact with Covid-19 patients.

US President Donald Trump was criticised this week after he said he had been taking hydroxychloroquine, despite warnings it might be unsafe.

The first UK participants in the global trial are being enrolled on Thursday at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals and the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. 

They will be given either hydroxychloroquine or a placebo for three months. At sites in Asia, participants will be given chloroquine or a placebo.

These are the first of a planned 25 UK sites, with results expected by the end of the year. 

The trial is open to anyone delivering direct care to coronavirus patients in the UK, as long as they have not been diagnosed with Covid-19. 

It will test whether the drugs can prevent healthcare workers exposed to the virus from contracting it.

A COMMANDER IN CHIEF WHO TREATS HIMSELF DESERVES A FOOL FOR A SURGEON-GENERAL

THE TIMOTHY LEARY OF THE CLIMATE WARS

 Can Psychedelics Treat Climate Grief?
 ASKS COVERING CLIMATE NOW FOUNDER MARK HERTSGAARD IN THE NATION :



In his best-selling book How to Change Your Mind, journalist Michael Pollan reports that 80 percent of terminally ill patients...  felt less anxiety and depression after taking psychedelic drugs. 

Mark Hertsgaard, environment correspondent for The Nation... interviewed Pollan 
Mark Hertsgaard: 

Let’s be clear—in those clinical trials, terminally ill patients took psychedelic drugs... the results sound remarkable... Do those experiences and your other research suggest that psychedelic drugs can be an antidote to climate grief?


MP:
The first person I talked to about this was Rachael Petersen, an environmentalist... developing software... to watch fires around the world in real-time This was incredibly depressing work... and as a result entered into a serious depression. She received psychedelic therapy, and while it was not a panacea, she felt it helped her, allowed her to reset and continue to do this difficult work.



MH: But climate grief is different in important ways from an individual facing a terminal diagnosis. Climate grief is not necessarily about your own death but more about the death of the world around you—a kind of collective, civilizational death.

MP: Yeah, and here’s what the parallels break down a little bit because part of what psychedelic therapy seems to do for individuals is reconcile them to death. And that sort of acceptance is the last thing you want in a climate activist!

MH: Are psychedelics relevant to climate grief in any other ways?

MP: Yes...

MH: You’re a parent. I’m a parent; my daughter just turned 15. A big part of my climate grief relates to the future she’s going to inherit. And not just her but the countless other kids around the world in her generation. Can psychedelics be helpful to parents dealing with climate grief?

MP: I think potentially [it can], to the extent that many years of doing this work has dug a certain groove in your mind...  Think of psychedelics as a fresh snowfall that fills all the grooves, allowing you to take a new path down the hill.

MH: I’ve covered climate change as a journalist for 30 years, and when people ask, I always say that the only solution to climate grief for me is taking action—doing something to make me feel I’m having an effect on this. Taking action is clearly a climate solution. Are psychedelic drugs, in a different way, also a climate solution?

MP: No,

IT'S SPRINGTIME FOR GODWIN

CLIMATE ETC. FAN SETS GENESIS BACK 4000 YEARS

Posted by: chaamjamal on: March 15, 2020

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The pre-flood and pre-coal world was marked by abundance, health, and prosperity. The average human lifespan lasted many hundreds of years, and the climate across the globe was temperate and pleasant. Unfortunately.... , with the exception of a few select Environmentally-Conscious and Planet-Loving individuals, the society that indulged in coal burning was led down the wrong path into climate denial, idolatry, and incest. 

This all came to a head in the year 1536 of Creation (2225 BCE), when God put together His Incest Action Plan and foretold of the horrible events that would come to pass in terms of floods, drought, killer storms, wildfires, and sea level rise if the Incest Budget of the Paris Incest Agreement Plan was not obeyed.

NOAA is a righteous and upright climate science organization and God instructed NOAA on what to do about the sea level rise issue. He told NOAA that the only way to save the planet was to build an Ark large enough to hold two of each species on earth including humans and to put them all on the Ark which will float on the sea level rise. God gave exact instructions on how the ark was to be built. It was to comprise three stories: the top for NOAA climate scientists and their families; the middle for the human couple to be saved and for the animals; and the bottom for trash to ensure that no plastic shall be left behind in the ocean. It was to measure 300 cubits in length, 50 cubits in width, and 30 in height.  Electric power for the ark would be provided by wind turbines so the ark can have light and heat and power for air conditioners, heaters, refrigerators, and microwave ovens..

Finally, in the year 1656 (2105 BCE), The West Antarctic Ice Sheet disintegrated and collapsed just as NOAA had foretold and rapid and irreversible sea level rise began just as NOAA had foretold and which the climate deniers and sinners had denied.

After the seventeenth day of the collapse of the WAIS the sea level  rose steadily and irreversibly for forty decades until the face of the earth was entirely submerged, covering the summits of the highest mountains. Finally, the sea level rise subsided, but the waters continued to churn under violent tropical cyclones of unprecedented intensity and destructiveness that had formed in all six cyclone basins. After this period of time, the oceans were calm and the sea slowly began to return to its pre-Flood and pre-coal level.

NOAA sent out a raven and then a dove on a mission to survey the earth and to report on the sea level and climate condition of the planet and the birds returned with positive signs indicating that the planet and the climate had stabilized. It was thus that on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei of the year 1657 (2104 BCE), the sea level and the climate had fully returned to their pre-Flood pre-coal conditions so that NOAA and the breeding pairs of all the species on earth including humans disembarked to begin the long task of re-populating the earth.

IT TURNS OUT THERE IS A BOOK [LINK]   

SAME TITLE, DIFFERENT MESSAGE

THIS IS THE ESSENTIAL MESSAGE AS SEEN ON AMAZON.COM

This book is a history of lies, deceptive practices, and administrative abuses that have been perpetrated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) throughout its existence. 

THINKING INSIDE THE SKINNER BOX

THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR :
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/crushing-coronavirus-means-breaking-habits-lifetime-behavior-scientists-have-some-tips

THE GRAUN GROANS ON , AND ON, AND ON

Notes from an Apocalypse

by Mark O'Connell  [review] 

The apocalypse needs to end. Anyone who writes about apocalypse today is bound to acknowledge that humans have worried and theorised about it for as long as they have worried and theorised about .. the fact that apocalypse is an essential principle of major and minor religions. Yet for a foundational concept it’s quite hard to pin down.

Just as “reality” is elusive in a once-fragmented world that has (very creatively) reassembled itself online, the apocalypse can apply to whatever you want it to: the Greek root means to uncover or reveal, hence the Book of Revelation, hence the hard truths we learn about humanity’s consequential inaction in every apocalypse story. Marxist revolution can be an apocalypse; relationship experts speak about the “Four Horsemen” of divorce. Apocalypse is a shifting abstraction, a deceptively neat encapsulation of cascading associations and ideas. 

In a blurb, the novelist Jenny Offill describes O’Connell as “a genius guide through all the circles of imagined or anticipated doom”, 

... reading his descriptions of... Chernobyl...  the group... finds a room in which “a dozen or so toddler-size chairs were arranged in a circle, and on each was perched a rotting doll or distempered teddy bear”. 

As the literary critic Frank Kermode had it, the apocalypse is a fiction, one that lends humanity a “sense of an ending”. In his book of that name, Kermode argued that “crisis is a way of thinking about one’s moment, and not inherent in the moment itself”. Man arrives in the world in media res, and the apocalypse is a “coherent pattern” he follows to create “consonance” from the discord inherent in the individual’s relationship to the world. (This is also why, when doomsday preppers get the date of the Rapture wrong, they always claim it was due to an interpretative or mathematical error – never because the myth is bunk.) 

THE NATION HAILS BEST BEACH BOOK SINCE ON THE BEACH

Bad Times
Jenny Offill’s new novel of dread.
By Tony Tulathimutte 

These days, everything wants to kill us...
Every recent threat to human safety or human rights seems to have an analogue in pop culture: The Hunger Games for wealth inequality, The Handmaid’s Tale for the patriarchy, Watchmen for white supremacist terrorism... and... Jenny Offill’s latest novel, Weather. 

Its characters... do almost nothing but care. Mainly they worry about climate change... Yet all this climate anxiety seems to do is ruin their sleep. “Everyone I know is trying to sleep less,” the narrator, Lizzie, muses. “Insomnia as a badge of honor. Proof that you are paying attention.”  

In this way, Weather is definitely not what I’d call entertaining; it’s a beach read for those who like to worry about the beaches. 


Set immediately before and after the 2016 election, Weather’s plot is scant. Lizzie... answers depressing e-mails part-time for a doomsaying climate podcast...

In part, that’s because the worst has already happened—in real life, to all of us. We’ve already blown past 400 ppm of atmospheric CO2 and locked in at least 1 degree Celsius of warming from preindustrial levels, with many places seeing a rise of 1.5°C. At a 2°C rise, NASA tells us, drinking water will become scarce, and droughts will increase, which will probably lead to famines, and every year will bring more... As climate refugees flee the Global South, fascist leaders will scapegoat them and turn the richer nations into fortified garrisons...


The current attempts at cli-fi tackle this conundrum in different ways... It’s not that these novels fail on their own terms but that the demands of storytelling often run at odds with making climate change feel urgent; it’s either not real enough or all too real.

Offill skirts many of the difficulties of portraying climate change by not portraying it at all...  

In little inset boxes, we see the e-mails Lizzie answers on behalf of her podcaster boss...

Q: How do you maintain your optimism? 

A: If you are not getting enough iron, put a few iron nails into a bowl of lemon juice and leave it overnight. In the morning, make lemonade out of it.

Given the ecological interest, maybe it’s fitting that so many aspects of the book are recycled, specifically from Offill’s previous novel...

TRUMP POLICY COACH WRESTLES COVID TO THE MAT

hulkhogan

Word up, can you handle the truth my brother only love HH In three short months, just like He did with the plagues of Egypt, God has taken away everything we worship. God said, "you want to worship athletes, I will shut down the stadiums. 

You want to worship musicians, I will shut down Civic Centers.

 You want to worship actors, I will shut down theaters. 

You want to worship money, I will shut down the economy and collapse the stock market. 

You don't want to go to church and worship Me, I will make it where you can't go to church"

"If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."

Maybe we don't need a vaccine,

Maybe we need to have a personal revival where we focus
on the ONLY thing in the world that really matters. Jesus.

ELSEWHERE IN THE WRESTLING NEWS :

WWE’s Reckless Approach to Covid-19

The matches may be scripted, but there is nothing fake about the coronavirus risks that now come with being part of Vince McMahon’s traveling circus.

By Dave Zirin 

There is something ugly as sin happening in the carnivalesque world of professional wrestling, or more specifically World Wrestling Entertainment, the top dog in the industry. Run by 74-year-old billionaire Friend-of-Trump Vince McMahon, WWE has decided to resume live programming this week in the midst of the coronavirus, instead of doing safer bulk pretapings. The reasons for doing so appear to be dicey as hell. The owners say that they are doing it for America. Their actual motives are much more suspect.

ESPN has some sort of murky partnership with WWE, interviewing its sports entertainers on SportsCenter as if it’s a legit sport, and never looking at the dark side of the business. The network uncritically ran WWE’s justification for going back to live programming:

IN HIS COVID BONNET, WITH " I'M A MAD PEER" ON IT...

More good news about the Chinese virus,

and the Easter Funny

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley

The good news keeps coming. 

In global terms, these figures suggest that, assuming 90%, or 7 billion, of the world’s 7.8 billion population eventually became infected, ... In the United States there would be 1.1 million deaths. For comparison, in the 2019-20 flu season there are thought to have been 24,000 to 62,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

So the fatalities could still be significant, based on the German study. However, several promising avenues of research into prophylactics, palliatives and cures are being followed worldwide. The sooner some of these are shown to have a significant effect in randomized, prospective, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials, the smaller the eventual death toll will be.

A happy Easter to everyone. 

And, by way of an Easter Funny, here is a picture of the personal protective equipment that the fashionable Peer of the Realm is wearing this season.

THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON 4.5 GRAMS OF CHLOROQUINE

Of Quinine And Chloroquine

Watts Up With That? Guest Post 

by  Willis Eschenbach

After all the people saying we shouldn’t take chloroquine because of the side effects, let me take the opportunity to say some words about that curious drug.I moved to the Solomon Islands, in 1984... after having taken well over 100 doses of chloroquine, I gave it up. Of course, after stopping chloroquine, I got malaria... 

my mad mate Mike told me... to take three weekly doses at once (1500 mg, or 900 mg of base), then the same thing 24 hours later, then the same thing on the third day... So I started using his plan, and I never got full-blown malaria again.

Just take nine weeks worth of chloroquine [ 4.5 grams ] in three days, it aborts the onset of the chills and fever, no problem...  
Do we know scientifically if it works for COVID-19?  Nope  

But I’ll guarantee you that if I get the ‘rona, I will take chloroquine and azithromycin and zinc.

Nothing to lose, everything to gain, and Fauci is both mad and destructive to argue against it...

And that’s my story of chloroquine and the reason why I say that anyone who gets the virus should at least try it." 
+    +    +    +    +

Best weigh yourself before you swallow Willis' prescription.  
If you're under 180 pounds, or 80 kilos, a 4.5 gram dose could prove fatal, as  it would exceed 50 mg/kg .

The National Institute of Health warns:

" the lethal dose of chloroquine for an adult is estimated at  30–50  mg/kg "  

If Willis tale of the South Pacific is true, and he weighs what he says --  ~170, he's lucky to be alive.

A standard toxicology textbook,

 Poisoning & Drug Overdose 
explains why :

"Chloroquine overdose is common, especially in countries where malaria is prevalent, and the mortality rate is 10–30%"
.

Pharmacokinetics.

1. 1. " Chloroquine and related drugs are highly tissue-bound (volume of distribution [Vd] = 150–250 L/kg) and are eliminated very slowly from the body. The terminal half-life of chloroquine is 2 months, and that of hydroxychloroquine is 40 days."  (see also Table II–61).

2. Toxic dose. The therapeutic dose of chloroquine phosphate is 500 mg once a week for malaria prophylaxis or 2.5 g over 2 days for treatment of malaria.

   Deaths have been reported in children after ingesting one or two tablets—doses as low as 300 mg; the lethal dose of chloroquine for an adult is estimated at 30–50 mg/kg.

   
   

   So  the 4.5 G of chloroquine Eschenbach claims to have taken in three days would be nearly twice the 30 mg/kg lethal dose noted above, as both choroquine and hydroxychloroquine take weeks to metabolise and excrete. 

Gory details & hopeful alternatives at :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1678465/

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/03/who-launches-global-megatrial-four-most-promising-coronavirus-treatments

424,647,433 REASONS TO BELIEVE WE MAY BE DOOMED

AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, PUT NO FAITH IN SATANIC GASES

Trump pins coronavirus hope on a climate skeptic

Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter Published: Friday, March 27, 2020

Raoult has a history of challenging science outside of his field of expertise, including claims that Darwin's theory of evolution was wrong and that climate models are overblown.

"Climate predictions are absurd," he wrote in a 2013 piece for a French publication, Le Point, in which Raoult declared he "hates climate forecasts." [and]  that those who take action against climate change — as well as those who do the research to examine it — have taken "more of a religious approach than a science."

"Our sense of guilt explains the transformation of the debate into something of an unscientific nature," he wrote.

While Raoult has no climate credentials... he published a book this month called "Epidemics, Real Dangers and False Alarms."

SLATE REPORTS:

... While his fans applaud the 3,000 scientific articles Raoult has co-signed, his critics argue that these staggering numbers do not add up. Do the math, they remark, and it turns out the Marseillais researcher publishes more papers in a month than most productive researchers publish in a career. 

Raoult’s method, according to one critic, is to task a young researcher at IHU with an experiment, then co-sign the piece before it is submitted to publication. “Raoult is thus able to reach this absolutely insane number of publications every year,” according to one anonymous source quoted by the site Mediapart. More disturbingly, the critic added, “it is simply impossible for Raoult to verify all of these papers...”
 Combining ... hydroxychloroquine—and an antibiotic, Raoult treated 24 patients at IHU in early March who had tested positive for COVID-19. After six days, the virus had vacated the bodies of three-quarters of those same patients. [THE OTHER QUARTER QUIT THE STUDY !]

On March 16, Raoult announced the results not in a scientific journal but in a YouTube video, in which he declared the jig was up for the virus.