This has been going around, links to support. At this point we should all be digging!

(1) “TEXAS something is not sitting right with me with Texas and it’s not just the weather.
I mean it really bothers me these millions of Texas families are suffering.
I couldn’t sleep actually...
(2) So I woke up this morning, made coffee and got to researching.
I started pulling Biden’s EO’s this morning and I found something buried in the Keystone Pipeline EO..... way towards the end of the doc.
(3) It turns out that the same day Biden shut down the Keystone Pipeline, he also lifted the security on our power grid for 90 days (Trump’s EO the year prior secured our power grid by giving China no access.)
(4) Here below is the snippet buried in Biden’s Keystone pipeline EO.
“c) Executive Order 13920 of May 1, 2020 (Securing the United States Bulk-Power System), is hereby suspended for 90 days.
(5) The Secretary of Energy and the Director of OMB shall jointly consider whether to recommend that a replacement order be issued.”
(6) Just a small little paragraph tucked away in one of Biden’s EO’s the first day he was in office under the umbrella of “restoring science to tackle the climate crisis”.
You can find it here:
https://t.co/hkp7ig6iUi
(7) So I researched our energy transformers that supply our power grid.
Turns out, we have had zero transformers in this country that were manufactured in China prior to 2009. From 2009 -2019, China has manufactured 200 of our transformers, supplying 60% of our power grid.
(8) Trump’s EO states this snippet, interestingly enough. May 1, 2020 order, President Trump stated that
“the United States should no longer purchase transformers and other electric grid equipment manufactured in China.
(9) He signaled that it is important to end relationships that U.S. utilities have directly with Chinese businesses and multi-national companies manufacturing transformers in China, which are later plugged into the electric grid in the United States.
(10) Chinese power equip can be embedded with software and hardware that can be remotely accessed, enhancing China’s ability to commit cyberattacks. Because power transformers are huge and weigh between 100 and 400 tons, it is not easy to identify embedded software or hardware.
(11) There is also a potential hardware risk since counterfeit items can be easily put into large power transformers.”
You can read Trump’s EO here:
https://t.co/kIXo3c0qMy
(12) What prompted Trump’s EO was this prior report right here. The Department of Energy found in this report, that there were :
6 - US power transformer manufacturers
30 - Chinese power transformer manufacturers.
You can read the report here:
https://t.co/xGCEpXZoGa
(13) Most recent projects were completed in
Houston
Las Vegas
New Jersey
If you lookup “ Electric Panda”.... you will wonder why in the heck this isn’t front page news now with Texas.
(14) Conclusively, Biden, on his first day in office, opened up the American electrical grid to China.
(15) His very first day in office. 3 weeks later, 5 million are without power and struggling to keep their families warm, and many livestock are unable to survive the emergent conditions caused by my power and limited water.”
@threadreaderapp please unroll

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One of @CDCgov's own models has tracked the true decline in cases quite accurately thus far.

Their projection shows that the B.1.1.7 variant will become the dominant variant in March. But interestingly... there's no fourth wave. Cases simply level out:

https://t.co/tDce0MwO61


Just because a variant becomes the dominant strain does not automatically mean we will see a repeat of Fall 2020.

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