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Never had you down as owning a tin foil hat.

The women's cricket team did before playing South Africa.

Nature 'created' the virus, it has been around in mammalian populations for centuries. It was not released from a laboratory.

https://bitterwinter.org/donbass-did-ukraine-kill-14000-pro-russians/ https://www.rferl.org/a/death-toll-up-to-13-000-in-ukraine-conflict-says-un-rights-office/29791647.html As for the statement that Russian civilans in Donbas were ' butchered' by Ukraine, unfortunately there has been a state of war in the region since 2014, and regardless of whether Russia or Ukraine is to blame for starting it, there have been both pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian civilian casualties there - civil wars are the biggest bastard version of warfare. A lot of Ukrainians did indeed welcome the Wermacht in 1941, they viewed them as liberators from the Bolshevik USSR, and some later joined the Waffen SS. ( Many others soon regretted welcoming the Germans ). However, there were also French, Dutch, Belgian, Bosnian, and many other nationalities and ethnicities in the Waffen SS, it wasn't a uniquely Ukrainian fetish. Europe at that time was rife with Facist leaning nationalist groups, we even had the Black Shirts in the UK, and these tendencies continue to this day, again not something unique to any one country. And why should the fact that Zelensky's first language is Russian be a surprise, he was born in the USSR, and spent time outside Ukraine as his father moved around various universities. He spent some of his earliest years living in Mongolia, in a Russian speaking academic community.

You need to experiment with a virus in order to develop a vaccine; some vaccinations use whole inert virions, others, like the COVID vaccine, only use a part of the virus - in this case the 'spike protein' by which the virus attaches to cell membranes. Understanding how the virus works is as important as decoding it's structure.

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How many of thoise complaining voted to leave the EU ? It seems that people are surprised that other countries also like to express their sovereignty.

I bet the issue of doubling up regulations won't come into the Tory leadership debate.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-62307383 "Scientists say there is "compelling evidence" that Wuhan's Huanan seafood and wildlife market was at the centre of the Covid-19 outbreak. Two peer-reviewed studies published on Tuesday re-examine information from the initial outbreak in the Chinese city. One of the studies shows that the earliest known cases were clustered around that market. The other uses genetic information to track the timing of the outbreak. It suggests there were two variants introduced into humans in November or early December 2019." https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715 "Understanding how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in 2019 is critical to preventing zoonotic outbreaks before they become the next pandemic. The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, China, was identified as a likely source of cases in early reports but later this conclusion became controversial. We show the earliest known COVID-19 cases from December 2019, including those without reported direct links, were geographically centered on this market. We report that live SARS-CoV-2 susceptible mammals were sold at the market in late 2019 and, within the market, SARS-CoV-2-positive environmental samples were spatially associated with vendors selling live mammals. While there is insufficient evidence to define upstream events, and exact circumstances remain obscure, our analyses indicate that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 occurred via the live wildlife trade in China, and show that the Huanan market was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic." https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8337 "Understanding the circumstances that lead to pandemics is important for their prevention. Here, we analyze the genomic diversity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) early in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We show that SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity before February 2020 likely comprised only two distinct viral lineages, denoted A and B. Phylodynamic rooting methods, coupled with epidemic simulations, reveal that these lineages were the result of at least two separate cross-species transmission events into humans. The first zoonotic transmission likely involved lineage B viruses around 18 November 2019 (23 October–8 December), while the separate introduction of lineage A likely occurred within weeks of this event. These findings indicate that it is unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 circulated widely in humans prior to November 2019 and define the narrow window between when SARS-CoV-2 first jumped into humans and when the first cases of COVID-19 were reported. As with other coronaviruses, SARS-CoV-2 emergence likely resulted from multiple zoonotic events."

Our innings has been almost a mirror image of the Tykes' one. Now we have a lead, can we get a batting point ?

I wonder if this is the party membership having their revenge on the MPs for having got rid of Boris. "You wanted rid of Johnson, so now you'll have to suffer Truss".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62299490 "The UK is set for the slowest growth of the G7 richest economies next year, the International Monetary Fund has warned." Edit: From the Analysis section; "But the IMF is among those economists who've noted that the UK faces more fundamental issues than the current crisis, with living standards having dropped behind many competitors over the last 15 years, something many attribute to a lack of investment in skills, equipment and infrastructure."

In the best tradition of SaintsWeb, source ?

A poll in Austria has concluded that people who have avoided the Covid vaccine blame Ukraine, the US, or NATO for the invasion, vaccinated people blame the Russians;

Bloody Pinko Remainer journo for the Pinko Remainer Independent doesn't understand that it's all the fault of those cheese eating surrender monkeys. They've nver forgotten Agincourt, Poitiers, and Crecy.

Are you feeling OK ? I only ask because at face value this is a strangely sensible post for you. However, there are additional circumstances pertaining to Iceland and Norway becoming signatories to Schengen, namely their wish, along with EU members Sweden and Finland, to continue their mutual open borders under the Nordic Passport Union, which would otherwise be compromised by the Protocols of Schengen.

Not such a productive session after lunch.

Absence

The Russian version of GM

It was also on R4 last night that they don't actually know how many members of the party there are.

UK drivers with disabled parking Blue Badge permits have been warned that they may no longer be valid in some EU countries.

( I know it is GBeebies, and I feel slightly soiled for quoting them, but I actually heard this on BBC radio late last night - this link is just the first thing that came up on a GOOGLE search this morning ); https://www.gbnews.uk/news/petition-calling-for-boris-johnson-to-be-added-to-tory-leadership-candidates-passes-10000/342873

Surprised you haven't gone back far enough to include October 21st 1805 or June 18th 1815 ?

If you bypass Parliament you can't be accused of lying to them.