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Sanctions are cumulative. The effect builds up over time as stuff needs to be serviced, repaired or replaced. Now Russia has planes and cars and computers and phones. In three years time, not so much

All category 4 labs are controversial. Many people think there are already too many, with around 15 globally creating too many unecessary risks. There was a lot of concern internationally that China did not have sufficient experience to open Wuhan, let alone the other six they also planned to open. The Covid outbreak happened less than a year after they started work on SARS whereas the bats and the live animal food markets have been around for thousands of years. If China admitted they messed up so soon after opening it would dramatically set back their strategic plans to open their other labs and be a world leader in gene research and engineering

Your argument is getting desperate. Whilst cases have been found in animals living in close proximity to infected humans, it had never been found before prior to the covid outbreak. Wuhan was a new lab, recently opened and the first category 4 lab in China. Everything points to them messing up due to inexperience. The denial of, by far, the most likely source of infection is more characteristic of tin hattery than anything else.

Different circumstances. HIV likely came via the bush meat trade in chimps and flu / bird flu via same food route. However bats have never been part of the food chain and never sold at Wuhan wet market. Its much much less likely that a random somewhow contracted it from being in a remote bat cave than researchers in the Wuhan lab were slack with their infection control procedures. The lab was not only known to experiment with bat coronaviruses but was specifically located there because of proximity to the caves and the source of the virus.

Looks that way. The wet market story is likely a diversion.

All vaccines and all germ warfare variants are based on naturally occuring organisms. The only question is whether it was a naturally occurring bat virus that unintentionally escaped from Wuhan lab or whether it was a gene edited variant created for some other purpose. It's not tin hat territory.

The second one 😅

Yep. A Machiavellian plot is beyong them. It's just plain vanilla repeat mistakes stupidity.

Don't know or don't want to say? They have been claiming at diffferent points 200,000 and 300,000 but real total is rumoured to be 140,000

He said no need for more, not none. We need more because the process is more involved and therefore slower now. He is correct and you are wrong - as always

Exactly. Ive waited 3.5 hours at JFK before

More to the point do US or Singapore put on extra staff because UK school holidays have just started? Did the UK put on extra staff to cope with the passports fiasco or the refuge for Ukrainians clusterfuck?

True, but they should have anticipated it was a possibility. More than on any other issue the Tories and Labour occupy consistently different positions on workers rights and have done for over 100 years.

A lot of the Brexit benefit claims were obviously speculative and dubious, but at least they hadnt been tried before so it wasn't provable they wouldnt work. The odd thing about Freeports is they HAVE been tried before in the UK, by the Thatcher Government in the 1980s and failed - mostly because they didnt offer the benefits which are again being claimed for them.

Ha. An extra twist I wasn't aware of

My God! It's like the Pope not being Catholic 😧

Exactly. Thery would have had a good chance if they had thrown out the discredited past and found someone fresh, but no.

Back to shootings and the law! In 2017 a shooter barricaded himnself in a Las Vegas hotel room, and using a device to convert his assault rifle to fully automatic over the course of 1 hour killed 60 people and wounded 417 more. Lawsuits against the manufactuers of the assault rifles were thrown out Lawsuits against the makers of the anti personnel bullets (hardpoints and dumdum) were thrown out Lawsuits against the police who didnt stop him for an hour were thrown out Lawsuits against the maker of bumpstop device to convert to automatic fire wwerre thrown out The hotel, despite its staff trying to stop the shooter, getting shot themselves and calling the police, had to pay $800 million . Bizarre.

It's either desperate that you think the President of the US keeps his own schedule or a desperate attempt to twist. Either way, desperate.

I'd like to think you do but your posting style makes it hard to tell.

With a bit of luck she'll spend most of the next two years in China selling pork

That, more than anything else you've written marks you down as clueless

Constant facial tics, shifting weight from one leg to the other and back again.... Probs Parkinsons and only one of three illnesses allegedly.

The aircon in my partners car stopped working. The local car aircon guy is booking in for September...