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There are signs that we in Connecticut are approaching the outer boundaries of the Coronavirus pandemic. A couple of weeks ago, Governor Ned Lamont was crying from the rooftops that we should all get back to work – pronto. Lamont, some thought, was holding up the last hoop through which much of Connecticut, brought to a grinding halt by gubernatorial work stoppages, must jump so that our economically crippled state might pass over from penury to its accustomed prosperity. Connecticut’s post pandemic economy, Lamont said, was like a coiled spring.
As is the case with most governors, Lamont may have a bit of
a problem filling open jobs now that the spring has sprung. A good many
potential workers are caught in the trap-gate of a compassionate rescue
operation that pays many workers more in salaries and benefits than they might
receive if they were to get back to work --pronto.
The state’s “fundamentals” are strong, and Connecticut’s so
called “Gold Coast,” now inundated with deep-pocket New Yorkers fleeing
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s overtaxed and overregulated dystopia, continues to
produce state treasury gold. Connecticut is awash in financing and hedge fund
money, although there are many progressives in state government who would drain
the entrepreneurial surplus through wealth taxation. Lamont has made it clear
that he is not in favor of killing the golden goose that has for decades
produced Connecticut’s golden eggs.
Then too, President Joe Biden has offered generous assistance
in the form of grants to states that had suffered job losses because governors,
armed with plenary powers, had shut down businesses for more than a year.
Facemasks, regarded as Coronavirus prophylactics during the
plague year, also appear to be on their way out, thanks to a combination of
natural immunity and immunity provided by what some irreverent Republicans are now
calling “the Trump vaccine.”
The Coronavirus onion is in the process of being peeled, and
many in the nation are now comfortable in asserting that the pandemic didindeed issue from a lab in Wuhan, China.
The devil is in Dr. Anthony –
“Tony,” to his close associates -- Fauci’s recently released emails. When a
definitive history of the Wuhan Virus is written, Zero Hedge may get a
journalistic gold star. Assuredly, the publication will never receive a
Pulitzer.
A research paper circulated early in the pandemic, "Uncanny similarity of unique inserts on the
2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag,” quickly and quietly
withdrawn under pressure, provided scientific evidence that Coronavirus had
been produced experimentally in the now notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The early politically inconvenient research paper was not – to put it very politely – welcomed news within a politically insulated “scientific” community determined to cast doubts that Coronavirus was a lab manipulated virus most likely originating in Communist China. The early research
paper, Zero
Hedge disclosed in a recent
story, “posited that segments of the virus's RNA had no relation to other coronaviruses such
as SARS, and instead appeared to be closer to HIV." And, in April of last
year, “Dr. Luc Montagnier - winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for
‘discovering’ HIV as the cause of the AIDS epidemic - claimed that SARS-CoV-2
is a manipulated virus that was accidentally released from a laboratory in
Wuhan, China.”
The early paper caused some trepidation in Fauci-land, Fauci
writing to National Institute of Health (NIH) immunologist Dr. Barney Graham that the paper was “really
outlandish.”
Later in May, Zero
Hedge reported, “The plot thickened further as a
study by Chinese scientists published in May 2020 found that the
novel coronavirus uses the same strategy to evade attack from the human
immune system as HIV.”
And still later in
June, “British professor Angus Dalgleish - best known for creating the
world's first 'HIV vaccine', and Norwegian virologist Dr. Birger
Sørensen - chair of pharmaceutical company, Immunor, who has published 31
peer-reviewed papers and holds several patents, wrote that while analyzing
virus samples last year, the pair discovered ‘unique fingerprints’ in the form
of ‘six inserts’ created through gain-of-function research at the
Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.”
The two scientists also concluded that
“SARS-Coronavirus-2 has ‘no credible natural ancestor’ and that it is
‘beyond reasonable doubt’ that the virus was created via ‘laboratory
manipulation,’” not at all a comforting finding that supported political rather
than the “scientific” findings of Fauci and those close to him.
Early in May 2020, Fauci told National Geographic, “'If you look at the evolution of the
virus in bats and what's out there now, [the scientific evidence] is very, very
strongly leaning toward this could not have been artificially or deliberately
manipulated … Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly
indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species,’ Fauci
says. Based on the scientific evidence, he also doesn’t entertain an
alternate theory—that someone found the coronavirus in the wild, brought it to
a lab, and then it accidentally escaped.”
Real science is beginning to steal a march on – please
forgive the Trumpism – fake or highly politicized science. It may take some
time for journalism to catch up to all the political dissimulation, but the
newly released cache of Fauci emails should speed truth seekers on their way.
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