Virus Chatter

James Woods wrote a Tweet today and asked the magic question:

It has been widely suggested that the #CoronaVirus was developed in the Wuhan Virology Lab in Wuhan, China and accidentally leaked into the population. Pure speculation, but if true, this question remains: what was the intended use for this “designer” virus in the first place?

So you sit and ponder upon this.

First, there is evidence existing to show that the virus was actually around in Europe (in Spain) around March of 2019.  

I tend to think that with various projects going on with this Virology Lab in Wuhan....someone sat there on some project, with the 2019 Chinese New Year week off period coming up, and told some clean-up crew to take care of some area, and the crew went beyond what was required.....removing the virus materials, and contaminating themselves.  

Week by week, this bounced around.....a dozen here, a hundred there.

What was the lab experiment in the first place?  They simply had isolated a bat virus, and wondering what would happen....that's my simple guess.

Beyond that, I don't think this was developed as some weapon.  If that was the intention, it's destroyed a great deal of the Chinese business development and financial stability.  

Ghost Reparations Story

Back in the 1970s of Zimbabwe....the nation was falling apart in a civil war.  So some promises were made to various military groups revolving around land reform.  The war ended in 1979, and in the 1980s....Robert Mugabe acted upon his land deal.  

What he basically did....involved a massive agricultural enterprise that had been developed over a hundred years, which not only fed Zimbabwa with no problems.....but profits from the crop sector came from various neighboring countries.  

When the smoke cleared by the 1990s....most all farms in Zimbabewa had flipped from white owned operations (large in nature) to small farms (all black owned in nature).

So a 2,000 acre farm would be broken up into 1k small farms.  The production level of the nation when to a level where they couldn't even farm enough....to feed their own country.....so they were importing from other countries.  

Paying the white owners for the land or the equipment lost?  No....nothing.  

Around a decade ago, Zimbabwe started to admit this issue was screwed up.  They'd screwed up the whole financial apparatus that supported a vast part of the revenue plan for the country.

This past week, they wrote up a plan to create a 3.5-billion dollar effort....to pay the white farmers for the improvements made to the land.   Some of the owners have been gone for 30-plus years.  

Where the money will come from?  Unknown.  

Most speculate that there might be 10 to 20 million dollars a year put toward the plan each year, and some showing of effort, but beyond that....it's really a 'ghost reparation'.  It's simply meant to show something.  

Bringing the white farmers back?  No....zero intention to accomplish that.  It's just a PR thing and supposed to show that a mistake was made.  

Corona Worry Story

I watched (clip-wise) about 15 minutes of the John Lewis funeral.....which was held in his home state of Georgia.

So, what's interesting here, dozens of Congressional folks were there, with at least a hundred-odd journalists who are based out of Washington.

If you follow DC 'bans'....there's a list of states which require you.....upon returning to DC....to sit in a mandatory home quarantine for two weeks.  

Yes, Georgia is on that list. 

The list creator?  Mayor Bowser of DC.

The odds that some 'second-wave' starts up from this funeral?  It wouldn't surprise me.  But the hypocritical attitude here.....rules are for little people....not for us?  It just stands out.