Who Dr. Li Wenliang is, or rather… was

“Two decades of the precautionary principle as the key policy tool for managing uncertainties has neutered risk management capacities by offering, as the only approach, the systematic removal of any exposure to any hazard. As the risk-averse precautionary mindset cements itself, more and more of us have become passive docilians waiting to be nannied.”

– David Zaruk, writing in an online science website 


LaurenceJarvikOnline: China, the World Health Organization, and Communism.
I have long been suspicious of WHO. The current situation has done nothing to change that



“Listen, I can’t start an investigation into a street robbery when I have twelve rapes, one homicide, and dozens of assaults reported last night alone.  But tell your mother not to worry.  Usually, anyone who attacks an old lady doesn’t have long to live.” –Police Captain Walter Sanogo.

“We are the first societies in human history where the old outnumber the young.”

Harry Miller: “This is a warershed moment for liberty” 

The police response to an ex-officer’s allegedly transphobic tweets was unlawful, the High Court has ruled. 

Harry Miller, from Lincolnshire, was contacted by Humberside Police in January last year after a complaint about his tweets.

He was told he had not committed a crime, but it would be recorded as a non-crime “hate incident”.

The court found the force’s actions were a “disproportionate interference” on his right to freedom of expression.

In a separate story from the one I quote above, the BBC goes on to reportthat

Mr Justice Julian Knowles said the effect of police turning up at Mr Miller’s place of work “because of his political opinions must not be underestimated”.

He added: “To do so would be to undervalue a cardinal democratic freedom.
“In this country we have never had a Cheka, a Gestapo or a Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society.”

We did not know we still had judges like that. . .

Edit: This is the text of the judgement: Miller -v- College of Policing, 14 February 2020.

Seen on a wall in Prague earlier today. Powerful, because most of us do indeed know who Dr. Li Wenliang is, or rather… was.

 In this time lapse filmed by Jan van IJken, the embryo of a salamander is shown transforming into a hatched tadpole, from a single cell to a complex organism in a three-week process that’s condensed into just six minutes of video.

The first stages of embryonic development are roughly the same for all animals, including humans. In the film, we can observe a universal process which normally is invisible: the very beginning of an animal’s life. A single cell is transformed into a complete, complex living organism with a beating heart and running bloodstream....

Billions of face masks sent to China during Australian bushfire crisis

THIS IS YAHOO NEWS, NOT SOME FRINGE WEBSITE:  Suspected SARS virus and flu samples found in luggage: FBI report describes China’s ‘biosecurity risk.’

In late November 2018, just over a year before the first coronavirus case was identified in Wuhan, China, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents at Detroit Metro Airport stopped a Chinese biologist with three vials labeled “Antibodies” in his luggage.
The biologist told the agents that a colleague in China had asked him to deliver the vials to a researcher at a U.S. institute. After examining the vials, however, customs agents came to an alarming conclusion.
“Inspection of the writing on the vials and the stated recipient led inspection personnel to believe the materials contained within the vials may be viable Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) materials,” says an unclassified FBI tactical intelligence report obtained by Yahoo News.
The report, written by the Chemical and Biological Intelligence Unit of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD), does not give the name of the Chinese scientist carrying the suspected SARS and MERS samples, or the intended recipient in the U.S. But the FBI concluded that the incident, and two other cases cited in the report, were part of an alarming pattern.

Isolate China.

LA MAFIA È COME LA CORONAVIRUS—TI PRENDERÀ DOVUNQUE.” [The mafia is like the coronavirus—it will get you wherever you are.] Old friend and renowned investigative reporter Richard Behar filed an interesting report on how Organized Crime is taking advantage of the Wuhan virus:

“In Switzerland—of all places, considering it’s one of the safest countries in the world—GI-TOC cites reports of criminal groups looking to loot properties. How so? “They claim to be from official state agencies and request access to properties with a view to disinfecting the areas of coronavirus.” Meanwhile, in China and Laos, traders have been falsely marketing rhino horn products as “cures” for the virus.”

Read more details here.