It’s a mind numbing move. Norwegian is already working to avoid porting in Florida over this stuff. Might see a lot more cruises taking off from Puerto Rico or New Orleans this year as a result. Can’t imagine businesses in Miami, Tampa, Ft Lauderdale are going to be too thrilled if that happens.
This is such an incredibly stupid thing for DeSantis to do. In no way do we want this guy running our country some day.
Agree. If a private business wants to have a vaccine mandate in place, I don’t really see what’s wrong with that even though it will eventually become a moot point. Gov mandate would be different.
Not sure why the email is so interesting for people who are trying to find fault in Fauci.
What a dumb tweet. How does an email with zero words from Fauci show he "knew, worried, then lied"? And what did he know? That less than 0.1% of the virus needed to be analyzed further to rule out it was engineered? Fauci has said the origins need to be investigated, but it would be pretty irresponsible for him to flat out accuse a country for engineering a pandemic without knowing.
Which is why I said I didn’t care for the commentary :dunno The gain of function story (or possible story) could be explosive if it turns out to have some “there” there.
You'll have to explain more. I'm failing to see how this document is some form of "gotcha".
We need to differentiate lab leak vs man-made. In this statement Daszak says the virus IS natural in origin, so he is discounting the virus being manmade. That doesn't mean there wasn't a lab leak. What if they were studying a natural virus, were being careless in the lab, and the lab was ground zero for the outbreak. Like in all aspects of life people only consider the two extremes. China had nothing to do with this, it just poof happened or China made a virus in a lab to destroy the world. Maybe, just maybe they were just studying a virus (as scientists do) and due to carelessness, said virus escaped the lab. In the end I tend to agree with Fauci when he says he believes the virus is naturally occurring but an investigation would be beneficial to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.
Gain of function would be man made. I don’t think that is discounted yet, though maybe I missed something that came out recently.
Seems like Daszak was quick to comment as he has ties to the lab, his comments were premature. Then he thanked Fauci for defending him, where I think Fauci was just giving his opinion on origin from the research he had seen. Fauci has since said he thinks the virus was natural but is open to an investigation.