Simon Elmer Der Zauberlehrling (1797) is the title of a famous ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a re-telling of an ancient Egyptian myth that was later put to music by the French composer, Paul Dukas, in his orchestral scherzo L’Apprenti sorcier (1897). The latter was chosen for the title of a text published in …
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been a Washington, D.C. insider for many years. Wikipedia has a glowing entry about him, amazingly devoid of the controversy the man is currently in as his known support for gain-of-function research on viruses has come back to bite him hard with COVID-19’s rampage around the world. This of course is […]
This is as close to a “smoking gun” as one can get at this time. Doctor (and Senator) Rand Paul cornered Dr. Anthony Fauci in a hearing before a Senate committee today covered by multiple networks. CNBC reports: White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and Sen. Rand Paul traded barbs in a heated […]
Back in May, I told a friend about the notion that COVID-19 and its parent virus originated in a lab in Wuhan that was funded and whose development was advocated and directed by Dr. Anthony Fauci. My friend could not and would not believe this. Now, we have this story below. Featured is Jaime Metzl, […]
By Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD If the public has learned a lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic it is that science does not generate certainty. Do homemade face masks work? What is the ...
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Today I will rehearse the origins of this situation in both fiction and news, and we will stick to the mainstream news reports and analyses. I want to give my analysis of the situation, which is that ultimately this isn’t about in carunkavirus, but much, much more. LIVE at 2PM CST
The first infection by the agent of COVID-19, variously called 2019-nCoV or SARS-CoV-2, probably happened around December 12, 2019, based on the interviews in late December with a group of new pneumonia patients in Wuhan, China.
Pathogenic RNA viruses began to prey in earnest on humans around the time of our industrial revolution. As the human population exploded and then increased its density by a massive effort of urbanization, it also changed land use to encroach on wildlife. Such changes continue today, unabated, even accelerated, as the human population attempts to achieve its final doubling. There is currently tremendous encroachment on wild animals.
It was dusk. Out of a cave, black clouds of bats were coming out: thick. The fading sun skipped on their velvety wings. It was beautiful. The bats faded into darkness, on their way, on the hunt: tiny knights of nature carrying a deadly weapon about to cure humanity of its follies and arrogance. Their weapon of choice was called COVID-19. A new era had begun. Things would never again be quite the same.
Respect nature or pay the ultimate price
