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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

i also posted this on thedeprogram but i think it was deleted/censored? i see no traces of it

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ft. Detrick's bioweapons lab got shut down in 2019 because it wasn't capable of decontaminating water

The statement said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to issue a “cease and desist order” last month to halt the research at Fort Detrick because the center did not have “sufficient systems in place to decontaminate wastewater” from its highest-security labs.

They claim nothing escaped

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My Hypothisis that this is a US based Lab Leak is slowly looking more and more plauseable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Two conspiracies that I believe we will someday uncover:

  • Trump cheated in 2024 (whether it actually makes a difference I’m less sure of)
  • Fentanyl was pushed into the black market drug supply to try and kill off all the people who discovered “hey, some of these things aren’t so bad if you’re careful, maybe let’s work on harm reduction and jail fewer people”

The US inventing COVID as a bioweapon and then trying to blame “big bad China” after fucking up fits nicely within the hubris and malice of the ever present style of fascism we’ve lived with here since Harry Truman. I don’t think this is anything other than circumstantial at this point, but I really would not be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Yea probably. But what was with the videos early on of people passing out in the streets of China?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

FLG scare vid. I don't think covid causes you to pass out. Perhaps they already died due to untreated illness? And since its FLG they prob clipped random vids together from various periods of time together.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No shit. They sequenced the genomes years ago. The euro strain was 9 months older than the one detected in China.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

do you have the link to this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There was stuff like this: https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-circulated-europe-china-before-wuhan-outbreak-2020-12

But, thinking about it more, it might have been wastewater testing they did that found covid months and months before China detected it. They keep samples of the wastewater for potential future testing and they went back and found covid. But with seo nonsense its harder and harder to find anything. If you're on the discord ark server for this website, you might find it there or there might be an oldhead there that archived it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

If you're on the discord ark server for this website

any chance I can get a link to join?

yea I've known about the spanish sewer sample from March 2019, and I believe it was real. It is basically a fact that it was circulating in virginia in June 2019. That's only 3 months away.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I had a feeling. My mother had flu like systems with lasting brain fog and lost of taste and smell in September 2019, months before the first cases were detected here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

An elderly friend of mine nearly died of what was diagnosed as the flu in January 2020, even though she'd had a flu shot, and she had unexplained brain fog for a long time after. She had test after test to try to figure out what was causing it. Her doctors couldn't figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yes. She was able to recover, fortunately, and the cognitive impact wasn't bad enough that you'd notice if you didn't know her well. But I wondered, after Covid spread around us and brain fog became a well-known aftereffect, if that was actually what she'd had.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My half sister's mom died with similar symptoms Christmas 2019.

So I completely believe it was here before that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, how old was she?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I'm not sure. Late 40s maybe.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How quickly everyone forgot the pneumonia epidemic of 2019 and the mysterious vaping illness that was never spoken of again lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

intellectual novelty is dead

only tiktokGPTxitter now

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Vaping illness? The only vaping illbess I remember was from the counterfeit weed carts cut with Vitamin E Acetate as a thickener. I ended up with one of those Once, a single hit (it was a blinker) and my chest hurt for days. Tasted like burnt plastic, but not in a "I didn't prime this right so it tastes like acrolene" way.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I remember there were stories of hospitalized young adults with pneumonia who hadn't use weed carts, only were using legit tobacco vapes. Could be they just didn't admit to using illegal carts of course.

Edit: here's a research article, there was a small CDC study early in 2019 where all the patients had vitamin E in their lungs, but a larger study later in 2019 only had 86% of patients reporting cannabis use, and another in 2020 where they only found vitamin e in 49% of patient samples.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Thank you, I have some reading to do 🫡

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

Ya it was that thing. It is pretty weird that it popped up in September 2019, a few months right before the pandemic. Not saying the Vitamin E Acetate vape thing wasn't a problem, as I don't vape, but I wonder how often it masked a different lung disease, in Covid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

yeah the vaping thing is a closed case and not relevant to the question of COVID origins.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago

Investigate Fort Detrick

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 days ago

if true then it's basically the Spanish flu all over again, which funnily enough also started in flumerikkka.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago

that's why I call covid The yankee doodle flu

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