mercy_dude

Define criminals. It’s not just an opinionated matter, any allegations have to be proven beyond reasonable doubt with presumption of innocence till proven guilty. Law works like that in this country. But also if a person is subject to criminal investigation for extended period of times (over three years), you would expect charges. So far other than some obscure “lying about net worth”, there is no charges.

Vindicating individuals you seem criminal with questionable raids from agencies with sweeping powers that are known for abuse of power have consequences. As in this case, it can very easily come for the other side. FBI is reportedly known for profiling MLK and other activists.

As we have seen with Assange or Steele dossier, search warrants don’t matter. FBI abused and misled FISA judges on multiple occasions and rubber stamped warrant by the administration which largely uses FBI as its street cover.

I am curious how we are going about studying these in Macaques. Are we trying to deliberately get them the virus and see how their brain respond? If so, haven’t we learned enough on how virus jumps species and can wreck havoc?

> The CDC did fine with what they had to work with to be honest.

If that’s the standard we have to live by after the most devastating pandemic in a century for the most developed country in the world, then there is not going to be any lessons or improvement when the next one hits.

The CDC didn’t (still doesn’t) have a full picture of mode of transmission of the virus (aerosol vs others). They kept saying it’s not airborne when all being said it looks like it is. Their focus on hand washing in retrospection seems like not a productive strategy whatsoever. The whole mask fiasco (first saying it isn’t recommended and then a straight up 180) caused the public in rooted mistrust and then their PR umbrella did a poor job addressing and admitting any failure. Their PR branch effectively did nothing to earn trust of a large swaths of public who didn’t buy into vaccination other than often resorting to name calling and gaslighting the debate further which is absolutely the opposite of what you would want to do in that situation if you really want people to get vaccinated. Many occasions they did slow walk backs and often no oversights on grants and revolving doors setup within these agencies with FDA and other pharma industries. Calling everyone criticizing you “anti-science” is a great way of not learning any lessons for next epidemic. There is a lot we can do better.

It’s not surprising at all. Current administration has setup a revolving door with quite a few Google execs working in the administration. Eric Schmidt is known to have done fundraising in 2020.

> If it's obvious to me that this is exactly what will happen, it should be obvious to Fed board members

You also have to discount the possibility that Fed might be incompetent, given how their recent track record has been in predicting transitory inflation and delays in calling off QE.

Given the size of Californias population and and it’s spending power, the grand effect on the entire country would be higher. I wonder if the rest of the states would have to pay the prices (through rising rates).

And wouldn’t be surprised if China used or continue to use these covet tactics to alter election results.