A year ago, almost to the day, the United States House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing. The hearing was called, “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19.” The main takeaway from the hearing was that the idea that the pandemic which took seven million lives around the globe was caused by a leak from a Wuhan biology lab was not, in fact, a conspiracy theory. The scientific consensus presented was that COVID-19 did not occur naturally. We did it to ourselves.
Early on, genetic analysis of the COVID virus showed that it was almost impossible for it to have come from a lab. Another, and arguably more telling fact, is that there are several labs in the market area, and no one of them could have both cooked up the virus AND released it into the market area. The only lab from which it could have escaped is not capable of cooking up an artificial virus, and has no reason to have such a virus on hand. I no longer recall, from the article I read, if any of the remaining labs could have cooked up an artificial COVID by itself.
Always enjoy your perspective. I was just thinking that it was 4 years ago today that we left our chicago city house and left for Michigan to stay in our second home. We thought it would be a couple weeks. In the end our daughter’s family took over Chicago house and we stayed in Michigan. There was never going to be enough bandwidth for everyone working and schooling remotely. It is was also the period I found my way to your covid blog. I have found it sustaining still. So thank you!
One more comment on prostate cancer. My husband was diagnosed and treated this winter. We were astounded at the number of friends (people we have been close with for years) who also had been treated, but never shared. Women friends have freely shared their “conditions” of all sorts, but not the guys. Mike (husband) has been very open which has prompted the “oh yeah, I went through that” response. A doc friend observed that it would be a great PSA if men were more open about their experiences with their psa scores and prostate cancer. Perhaps there is too much privacy around privates?
Ok…and thinking after all these years, I should subscribe!
Early on, genetic analysis of the COVID virus showed that it was almost impossible for it to have come from a lab. Another, and arguably more telling fact, is that there are several labs in the market area, and no one of them could have both cooked up the virus AND released it into the market area. The only lab from which it could have escaped is not capable of cooking up an artificial virus, and has no reason to have such a virus on hand. I no longer recall, from the article I read, if any of the remaining labs could have cooked up an artificial COVID by itself.
Always enjoy your perspective. I was just thinking that it was 4 years ago today that we left our chicago city house and left for Michigan to stay in our second home. We thought it would be a couple weeks. In the end our daughter’s family took over Chicago house and we stayed in Michigan. There was never going to be enough bandwidth for everyone working and schooling remotely. It is was also the period I found my way to your covid blog. I have found it sustaining still. So thank you!
One more comment on prostate cancer. My husband was diagnosed and treated this winter. We were astounded at the number of friends (people we have been close with for years) who also had been treated, but never shared. Women friends have freely shared their “conditions” of all sorts, but not the guys. Mike (husband) has been very open which has prompted the “oh yeah, I went through that” response. A doc friend observed that it would be a great PSA if men were more open about their experiences with their psa scores and prostate cancer. Perhaps there is too much privacy around privates?
Ok…and thinking after all these years, I should subscribe!