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   McNadoMD (mcnado@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 03:56:34 JST McNadoMD

   Oh for fuck’s sake, I thought I was done with this bullshit, but nooooo.

   The CIA report on COVID origins is not new. The conclusions were previously released, and there isn’t anything new this week.

   The CIA report is at odds with many other reports on the subject. We will probably never know for sure, but multiple lines of evidence reviewed by actual infectious disease experts, epidemiologists, and viral genetics experts, suggest an origin in “wet markets” over a roughly 2 month period.
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 03:56:33 JST feld

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     @mcnado this ignores that they previously had lab leaks there and there was a report in Nov 12 where they referenced a biosecurity breach
     
     https://www.propublica.org/article/senate-report-covid-19-origin-wuhan-lab
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     Insane Eagle Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 03:59:59 JST Insane Eagle Sun

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     @mcnado the origin is super interesting because if it was a leak from that lab, responsibility can be traced back to americans who should be given to a firing squad.
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     McNadoMD (mcnado@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 04:00:01 JST McNadoMD

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     Perhaps more important, though, is that the origin isn’t actually all that interesting in the grand scheme of COVID. What is interesting is how leaders responded. Oddly enough, the folks who tend to push the lab origin theory are the same people who called COVID a hoax, and actively undermined any effort at harm reduction in 2020. The focus on the origins now is an attempt to blame China for the failure of US leaders to do their jobs.
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     McNadoMD (mcnado@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 04:26:56 JST McNadoMD

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     China absolutely hid the outbreak. They hid data on the virus, the disease, and the spread. They reacted too slowly, and with too much focus on suppressing news of the virus. So yeah, fuck ‘em. None of that mattered, because when it hit the US, the sitting president said it was a hoax, undermined every effort to slow the spread of the disease, and led a misinformation campaign that resulted in death threats to people treating patients. This killed hundreds of thousands.
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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 04:41:22 JST of nothing

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     >the sitting president said it was a hoax
     your memory should be preserved and studied for science. The early days had Trump warning about it and wanting to halt flights from China, and Democrats declaring that this is racism and it can be fixed by hugging a Chinese person in New York.
     The misinformation campaign that killed thousands was "every early treatment that seems to work is a hoax and you should only use remdesivir and ventilation until there's a vaccine".
     Even when Trump got sick, got an early treatment that wasn't a vaccine (monoclonal antibody treatment from the previously infected), and got over in a couple of days despite being fat and old and very high risk, the Democrat response was
     1. that's not a treatment that you can get! That's a fake treatment! Only someone like the President could POSSIBLY get treated by something like that!
     2. that treatment should racially discriminate against white people
     3. also it should be banned
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     McNadoMD (mcnado@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 05:15:01 JST McNadoMD

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     Some fuckwit thinks he’s going to rehab a bunch of politicians who made the wrong call, and killed their constituents. He thinks by telling people China made COVID in a lab, that will lift the blame from leaders here. It doesn’t. Our people died because our leaders let them. People were told it was a hoax, while ICUs overflowed into PACUs and ERs and ambulances. People were told the vaccine was poison, and died because of it. COVID deaths here were a leadership failure here. I remember.
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     McNadoMD (mcnado@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 05:15:02 JST McNadoMD

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     So I don’t give two fucks that a recycled report from CIA was once again released. I was there in 2020, in the hospital, treating COVID patients. I was there on social media talking with docs all over the world to figure it out. I was there getting DMs begging me to accept patients from 600 or 1000 miles away in states that lifted restrictions. I wore the filthy N-95s we baked in UV ovens. I watched people die, many of them needlessly after an effective vaccine was available.
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     Bill and Paul Cantrell repeated this.