Friday, July 24, 2020

Curtain Drawing Between China and the US



Yesterday I linked an article to an interview with a Hong Kong virologist, who defected to the US and is now working with US intelligence agencies:
Barnini Chakraborty, Alex Diaz (2020, July 10). Chinese virologist accuses Beijing of coronavirus cover-up, flees Hong Kong: 'I know how they treat whistleblowers.’ Fox News.https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-virologist-coronavirus-cover-up-flee-hong-kong-whistleblower
She claims that China and WHO health officials suppressed information that would have helped stop spread of virus.

Examples of her scholarship include:
Sia, S.F., Yan, L., Chin, A.W.H. et al. Pathogenesis and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in golden hamsters. Nature (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2342-5
Li-Meng Yan

Yang Liu, Li-Meng Yan, Lagen Wan, Tian-Xin Xiang, Aiping Le, Jia-Ming Liu (2020) Viral dynamics in mild and severe cases of COVID-19Correspondence| Volume 20, ISSUE 6, P656-657, June 01, 2020 et al. :https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30232-2
Although Dr.  Ming-Li Yuan seems very sincere and authentic, I have no way of assessing the validity of her claims made in the interview segment released, which does not yield new understanding, but rather suggests she may have been an early undetected whistleblower sharing information about transmission.

The interview was with Fox, which has taken a more hawk-like approach to China. I am eagerly awaiting release of more segments of this interview.

Meanwhile in China, The South China Morning Post is reporting that there has been a mass resignation of researchers from China's Nuclear Energy Safety Technology (INEST):
Viola Zhou (22 Jul, 2020). Vice-premier demands answers on brain drain from Chinese nuclear institute after over 90 researchers quit. South China Morning Post, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3094285/vice-premier-demands-answers-brain-drain-chinese-nuclear

...China’s Vice-Premier Liu He is demanding an investigation into the exodus of scientists at a key state-run nuclear energy research institute.

Liu, a top leader in charge of China’s economic and trade policies, has ordered a special team to be sent to the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science to look into the mass resignation of researchers.

Chinese media have reported that more than 90 researchers, most of them PhD holders, had recently resigned from the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology (INEST) in the eastern city of Hefei....
The reason given for mass resignation was control over offices.

Scientists fleeing and resigning, consulates closing, sabres rattling....



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    Stefan Simanowitz
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    Jul 25
    1. Hours before recess, PM quietly announced that Downing St had taken control of the govt’s use of data.

    Trump did EXACT same thing in the US last week.

    This is not a coincidence!

    It is part of a single, coordinated US-UK strategy. #Palantir #COVID
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    32/. Last week the Trump admin ordered hospitals to bypass the CDC & send key #coronavirus information to a Washington database run by the shadowy surveillance company, Palantir

    @nytimes said it had alarmed health officials.

    It should alarm us all!
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    2. Now I know this may sound counter intuitive, but I ask you read to the end of the thread & ideally the thread embedded aboveUp pointing index

    I don't pretend to have a single clear explanation, but I believe I have part of it.

    Everything is fact-based.

    Only v occasionally do I speculate.
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    3. In May, Amnesty warned: “The shadowy data-mining firm Palantir, whose technology has powered some of the most nefarious immigration abuses, is now collecting troves of health data about all of us.”

    Palantir is running US & UK govt's #COVID platforms.

    Opinion | Why are we trusting a company with ties to ICE and intelligence agencies to collect our...
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    4. #Palantir, run by right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, won a $7.5m contract to build the #COVID digital platform for US Health Dept (HHS) in April.

    They won a similar contract in the UK for the NHS in April. This contract has just been extended for £1m.
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    5. On 8 July, Boris Johnson announced that SAGE had been sidelined & in favour of the secretive Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) which has taken over UK's #coronavirus response.

    It is led by Clare Gardiner, a cybersecurity expert seconded from govt's GCHQ.
    People wearing masks on the street
    New government unit to take over Covid response
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    1. Thank you for this critical information. It is quite interesting that both the UK and US are centralizing control over Covid-19 information, particularly as more information comes out the problem with this disease isn't restricted to initial mortality as people suffer long-last cardiac, neurological, and immunological problems.

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  3. Of course probably the single most important information regarding Covid-19 is here:
    https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/07/27/facebook-censors-viral-video-of-doctors-capitol-hill-coronavirus-press-conference/

    The problem with hydroxychloroquine is that it will not make anyone rich. And that is not a small problem.

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    1. Quinine is one of the most toxic drugs known and even moreso with it's more potent
      derivative, Hydroxychloroquine . Acute poisoning can lead to heart block and death. Renal failure and death. Seizures and death. Respiratory depression and death.

      Liver and diffuse organ damage.

      Chronic poisoning can cause irrevesible hearing loss and optic damage. Suicidal ideations that lead to death. Depression. Permanent neurotoxicity. It can lead to irreversible renal and liver damage.
      https://www.drugs.com/sfx/quinine-side-effects.html

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