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2021-05-06 India-Pakistan

US approves departure of non-emergency government workers from India

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-06 01:12|| || Front Page|| [15 views ] Top

#1 There are new strains evolving every darn week as the stoic population tries to absorb this cosmic hiccup in its cyclical chakra of birth and death.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-06 09:28|| 2021-05-06 09:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Biden to restrict travel from India amid coronavirus surge

Guess they're coming by boat.

CDC sets rules for trial cruises with volunteer passengers

Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-06 09:36|| 2021-05-06 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 There are new strains evolving every darn week as the stoic population tries to absorb this cosmic hiccup in its cyclical chakra of birth and death.

Me, I have trouble believing a new variant that's both more lethal & more infective, evolving naturally. Of course, I also have trouble believing in a virus jumping from bats to humans.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-06 09:48|| 2021-05-06 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Yes. me as well. Add to that the difficulty I had believing Saddam had no interest in WMD. Perhaps it was the dead Marsh Arabs, or my one-time visits to Al Qaim, Samarra, Akashat, and Salman Pak.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-06 10:50|| 2021-05-06 10:50|| Front Page Top

#5 This implies that we have emergency workers in India.
Who gets that cr@ptastic job?

Posted by ed in texas 2021-05-06 20:34|| 2021-05-06 20:34|| Front Page Top

#6 I also have trouble believing in a virus jumping from bats to humans.

It is a thing. Zoonosis. More common with chickens, ducks and pigs, but humans, especially including the Chinese, live in closer contact with them. Bats are a suspected reservoir of Ebola, but whether we share the virus or it occasionally jumps is unknown.

So it's a thing. But whether this thing is that thing is a whole 'nother thing.
1) Could have happened naturally.
2) Could have escaped from the virus lab 'studying' bat viruses. Oopsie!
3) Could have been deliberate. That has some implications, eh?
Me, I like #2 - a lab accident or bit of carelessness.

While the Chinese have behaved perfidiously, I don't know if we can take that as a sign of guilt or simply the fact that they are perfidious.

Posted by SteveS 2021-05-06 22:17|| 2021-05-06 22:17|| Front Page Top

#7 @ #4 - Surely he had interest. Just ask the [surviving] Kurds. And maybe duPont Corporation.

Posted by Clem 2021-05-06 23:03|| 2021-05-06 23:03|| Front Page Top

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