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1. Why haven't Dr. Alice Latinne @nycbat @peterdaszak
@EpsteinJon @HumeField @CarlosTorrelio @linfa_wang
of @EcoHealthNYC released the first draft of:
https://t.co/nbZPxmEdja
Why haven't US authorities forced them to?
@USAIDGH @OneHealthUCD @NIHDirector
@dylanbgeorge @cmyeaton

 Dr. Alice Latinne Alice Latinne sampling a rodent in SE Sulawesi @PREDICTproject in 2017 and 2018 in Indonesia, before her work on bats with Zhengli Shi:
Origin & cross-species transmission of bat coronaviruses in China
Earliest Version: 2. May 31, 2020
https://t.co/vF0tGWDFjv
3. https://t.co/DUCBKIP17R
4. @franciscodeasis https://t.co/pEHfMHcTr9
5. @MonaRahalkar
https://t.co/cJPncdyqE9
6. @franciscodeasis
https://t.co/0gGQmagLVd
7. @franciscodeasis
https://t.co/8VrlLGgBdd
8. @franciscodeasis @nature @NIHDirector
https://t.co/Ne10WZIqu8
9. Why does @nature hate monkeys?
10. @Harvard2H
Nature magazine has censored over 1,000 articles at the request of the Chinese State over the past several years, & runs columns sponsored by outside interests.
“The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2”
is just one more example of their influence.
https://t.co/nejos1Ktaq
11. Birds of a feather stick together @nature
https://t.co/nbZPxmmCrC
12. One of the good things about @biorxivpreprint is that all the tweets citing the paper are visible at the end of the paper, often to hilarious effect, see here:
https://t.co/rhJtmUNnqg
13. Alice Latinne in the News
Coronaviruses closely related to the pandemic virus discovered in Japan and Cambodia
https://t.co/2zIp1CmGan
Scientists call for pandemic investigations to focus on wildlife trade
https://t.co/BqxnE5pfD1
14. Two Month Old Frozen Cambodian Bat Fudge? @institutpasteur
The new virus might be more distantly related, says Etienne Simon-Loriere, a virologist at Pasteur Institute, who plans to sequence the virus, after which it will be shared publicly (Nov 24th)
https://t.co/2zIp1CmGan
15. Remember, Remember the 24th of November!
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16. Was that two month old frozen Cambodian Bat Fudge not as popular as expected?
https://t.co/1w9ktvqIgY
17. Hurry Up with that Sequencing, Laboratory Junior Group (G5)! @institutpasteur @SimonLoriereLab
The world is waiting to taste the Cambodian Bat Fudge!
Evolutionary genomics of RNA viruses
DEPARTMENT OF VIROLOGY
https://t.co/2UUwC8EZ1E
18. Don't be letting "interaction" with #CREID get in the way of publishing that Cambodian Bat Virus sequence https://t.co/hGNmGjAMsF
19. Don't listen to Metabiota, UC Davis and Ecohealth https://t.co/ifQTmRpqVA
20. Our future is in safe hands with #CREID
🦇 🦠 🧑‍🔬 🧪 👩‍🔬 🧫 👨‍🔬 🐁 🐭 🙊 😱 😷https://t.co/Eh8hGP4vDA
unroll Dr. Alice Latine's 2 month old frozen Cambodian Bat Fudge @threadreaderapp
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1. High Probability of serial passaging in Transgenic Mice expressing hACE2 in genesis of SARS-COV-2!
2 papers:
Human–viral molecular mimicry
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2. Must Read! Confirmation with supporting evidence via @flavinkins
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"ONLY place where this thing could emerge, naturally or Artificially, is by passage in HUMANIZED MICE"

3. Springer Article


4. Takeaway most significant quotes from Springer Article, burn this into your brain:
"Such a peptide commonality is unexpected and highly improbable from a mathematical point of view"


5. One image to explain it all!
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1. Omicron Thread - A Compilation of Opinions

"finally, the time has slip and slid its slimy course through to us - and we're the vicious bastards of the new generation. we do not relent, and we should not be held to account for our ancestral faults"

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via @readomain

Why 'Omicron', Not 'Nu' or 'Xi'?

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3. The Omicron variant has been found in nearly every province of South Africa, as well as Botswana, Belgium, Israel, UK and Hong Kong.

This month, Israel held an exercise, The “Omega Exercise”, meant to prepare for a hypothetical, new COVID-19

4. Omicron Infographic

(appeared in Germany and Italy now)

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Digital Operations Group (DOG) 77th Brigade
A pathetic digestive biscuit munching bunch of British Berks from civvy street whose badge dishonours the Chindits.
Sleazy Media Manipulators who usually fail to deliver "influencing activity & products" to counter narratives of others


“If everybody is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking”
Just about sums up their Covid-19 "narrative"
“Behavioural change is our USP [unique selling point]”
They fail every time, doubt they could even sell their asses to soldiers at Denison Barracks

More on this pathetic bunch of Trolls scrounging a living from honest taxpayers' money to sell offal scraped off the Butcher's

Why are these little British trolls all over Twitter lately?
The have been ordered to counter "Covid- 19 Myths"
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1. Strange goings on down at Uncle Sam's Farm in Ukraine?

h/t @DrKevinWMcCair1 video:

https://t.co/1lrFeWcakB

From Daily Expose:

U.S. DoD awarded a contract for ‘COVID-19 Research’ in Ukraine 3 months before Covid was known to even

2. The findings seem to be kosher and can "currently" be confirmed by:

1. checking the DOD Award to Black & Veatch
CONT_IDV_HDTRA108D0007_9700, here:

https://t.co/G5ZEUhPm5U

2. click the tab for sub-awards

3. 7th down from top

4. 19-6192 is the sub-award ID

5. Note Date


3. Download the CSV file by clicking top right:

Again Data is confirmed (with more detail in Column 32 in the csv file)


4. CSV Details (Column 32)

Note Kiev, Ukraine Mentioned and Date 2019


5. CSV Details (2)

Mentions Labyrinth's HQ in Saint Petersburg, Florida, not Russia ;)

URL in CSV directs to original URL

https://t.co/G5ZEUhPm5U

Copy & Paste URL, not click.

Last column with date does not refute finding, it is:

"subaward_fsrs_report_last_modified_date"
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"Mom, has a man ever touched you without your consent?"
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"Did you report it?"
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"Dad, your WIFE has been through this!"

Dad was unmoved and told the guy to stop arguing with him.

At this point we learned the boy child has allergies.

I forgot to remark upon the presence of the very cute grandson, who was very small and gave not one shit about the yelling. I believe a sister or aunt was present and feeling very stressed. I wanted to hand her a Xanax or seven.

It was really hard to not jump in and say, "Sounds like you guys are going to have a fun meal tomorrow!" so they could unite in hatred against me, the outsider, and stop squabbling. Instead I exchanged glances with a nearby fellow lady patron, who also emotionally ate a cookie.

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Oh are we talking about Sheryl Sandberg again? Well, your reminder that disabled feminists, LGBQT feminists, and feminists of color criticised her ‘lean in’ deal from day one. Don’t let anyone retcon that out of existence.

Like, a pretty narrow slice of feminists actually endorse and support corporate feminism, they’re just white, nondisabled, straight, cis, and noisy so their voices have a bigger reach.

So if your impression is that ‘feminism’ gave her a ‘free pass’ maybe you should question your overall impression of feminism rather than continuing to centre a handful of people as ‘thought leaders’ or whatever.

Critics within feminism have been doing this work for a long time and have been getting shat on it for about as long and I'm tired of seeing them erased. But what do I know — I am, after all, not a feminist.

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OK winger wonderland story time boys & girls.

1. Sleet stops, it's warming up, neighbor decides get out & drive, probably after seeing some truck drive down our residential road (4-wheel drive). Neighbor has new SUV push button start, 2-wheel drive, which is NOT THE SAME THING.

2. So anyway, they back out of their garage & then pull forward down their driveway. The driveway is flat, but it's also a really really long driveway that goes from the back of the house down the side of the house. This will be important later.

3. They make it down the driveway just fine, so now super confident this will go well.

They pull out on our little residential road and start driving.

Mother nature is laughing her ass off right about now.

4. I should mention the roads through our little subdivision don't have curbs or sewers. We're basically out in the country so they just slope roads so the run-off goes into a ditch at the side of the road.

5. So anyways, their SUV starts to slightly fishtail. They haven't gone far at this point. So, they stop, and the SUV, although stopped, just ever so slowly slides to the side of the road and ends up half way in the ditch & almost tipped over.
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Thread: This is a long thread about my wife's grand-father: Vinayak Apte.
Born, brought up & lived in Pune. Aptewada, Sadashiv Peth. Qualified as an engineer in 1920s or so. Married around same time.
I promise you this is worth reading, so settle down with your cup of tea....1/n

Around 1921, young Vinayak writes to Mahatma Gandhi expressing his desire to join Bapu & work for freedom struggle.
Bapu writes back saying sending money for the ticket (₹5) & get your backside up here (not exactly these words, but you know what I mean!).
Bapu adds a PS...2/n

"If you change your mind, please return the ₹5 by money order to Sabarmati Ashram" Typical Bapu, you might say! Careful with money.
Vinayak quits his job & decides to go to Sabarmati. Entire extended Apte clan is horrified. Joining that fakir? Giving up your job? Ostracised.

Vinayak goes to Sabarmati with young wife & 2-3 yr old daughter. Wifey not impressed at all, bcoz on arriving there they are assigned to separate living quarters (men & women), celibacy & every1 (incl her, a Brahmin woman) was expected to clean toilets! Horror of horrors..3/n

Wife never forgave Vinayak & Bapu. She had married a engineer & was looking forward to a prosperous life. Life on other hand, was full of austerity. Everyone had to work & was paid a pittance. 5 am wake up.Cook. Clean. Khadi sarees (which btw weigh a ton!) & evening prayers...4/n
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