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After the crisis, his death should be investigated by an international group. And those responsible for rebuffing assistance, including those at the CDC or oth
by appleshore 7y ago
After the crisis, his death should be investigated by an international group.
And those responsible for rebuffing assistance, including those at the CDC or other US agencies that rejected test kits, should be investigated.
Everyone just throws their hands up and says “incompetence” but in the real-world, a huge majority seem to believe in sinister motives. This is based on anecdotal experiences from mostly wealthy/successful people I’ve talked to. I’m a skeptic but way more people are conspiratorial than the media acknowledges.
How the US didn’t have tests in January when people were sounding the alarm, or how we don’t have general Coronavirus tests from decades or years ago is quite confounding.
- chadlavi 7y agoHave you ever worked in a bureaucracy? It's not hard to believe that this is all an admixture of hubris, incompetence, and political small-ball.
- appleshore 7y agoYou describe a great motive for one to start an international organized crime ring and incorporate it by an Act of Congress.
- chadlavi 7y agoYou make me want to buy aluminum futures for all the tinfoil you've got under your hat friend.
- appleshore 7y agoI was just making what I thought was a clever counter to your endless argument. I have friends who are implicated in conspiracy theories and know well it’s a flawed philosophical system that sustains incompetence. But set your Google search to 1970-1988, and read the old coronavirus test related papers. Ones of humans, cattle and cats. Then in ~2004 talking about coronavirus testing for SARS. It seems like they’re at least could be a general test or indicator for all coronaviruses. Even if not, we’ve been fearing mutant coronaviruses for decades, why wouldn’t we get the tests started in November? Poker players were betting 3-weeks+ ago that WSOP would be shut down and now the world is- https://twitter.com/dougpolkpoker/status/1233041607131357185?s=21 https://twitter.com/dougpolkpoker/status/1233041607131357185... https://twitter.com/mikemcdonald89/status/1233109485683724290?s=21 https://twitter.com/mikemcdonald89/status/123310948568372429...