Quote:It wasn't until March, months after the first reported coronavirus cases in China, that conspiracy theorists turned their focus to Maatje Benassi. The baseless theory began with her participation in October in the Military World Games, essentially the military Olympics, which was hosted by Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak began last year.
Maatje Benassi competed in the cycling competition there, suffering an accident on the final lap that left her with a fractured rib and a concussion. Despite the crash, Benassi still finished the race, but it turned out to be the start of something worse. While hundreds of athletes from the US military took part in the games, Maatje Benassi was plucked out of the group and given a starring role in the conspiracy theory.
Quote:It wasn't until March, months after the first reported coronavirus cases in China, that conspiracy theorists turned their focus to Maatje Benassi. The baseless theory began with her participation in October in the Military World Games, essentially the military Olympics, which was hosted by Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak began last year.
Maatje Benassi competed in the cycling competition there, suffering an accident on the final lap that left her with a fractured rib and a concussion. Despite the crash, Benassi still finished the race, but it turned out to be the start of something worse. While hundreds of athletes from the US military took part in the games, Maatje Benassi was plucked out of the group and given a starring role in the conspiracy theory.
(04-27-2020, 06:56 AM)stupac2 Wrote:(04-26-2020, 09:43 PM)Goose Wrote:(04-26-2020, 08:51 PM)stupac2 Wrote: Basically, with inflation and interest rates very very low it seems like the real worry is doing too little vs too much.The problem is that if you do things that don't actually stimulate the economy, you create debt with little or no benefit. While inflation won't happen immediately, it will if you keep applying the money flow and nothing happens. Argentina basically is a good example of this. People were so afraid of inflation that hadn't yet happened, they fled the currency. The only thing that may save us is that there is no place to flee towards. That said, there are other options besides V and Nike. The "down and stays there" option exists. That is basically what happened in the Great Depression.
The issue of debt is one of the reasons I like the idea of doing it via the fed so much, increasing the monetary supply doesn't make any debt, the only potential downside is inflation, which will show up rapidly and the fed can respond rapidly. If we start seeing inflation creep much above 2% then the economy has probably recovered and we don't need the special measures anyway.
(04-27-2020, 06:56 AM)stupac2 Wrote:(04-26-2020, 09:43 PM)Goose Wrote:(04-26-2020, 08:51 PM)stupac2 Wrote: Basically, with inflation and interest rates very very low it seems like the real worry is doing too little vs too much.The problem is that if you do things that don't actually stimulate the economy, you create debt with little or no benefit. While inflation won't happen immediately, it will if you keep applying the money flow and nothing happens. Argentina basically is a good example of this. People were so afraid of inflation that hadn't yet happened, they fled the currency. The only thing that may save us is that there is no place to flee towards. That said, there are other options besides V and Nike. The "down and stays there" option exists. That is basically what happened in the Great Depression.
The issue of debt is one of the reasons I like the idea of doing it via the fed so much, increasing the monetary supply doesn't make any debt, the only potential downside is inflation, which will show up rapidly and the fed can respond rapidly. If we start seeing inflation creep much above 2% then the economy has probably recovered and we don't need the special measures anyway.
(04-30-2020, 02:15 PM)BostonCard Wrote: even if the project has links to the Wuhan institute of virology.I would say, especially since the project has links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology! That would give us an "in" to help prove that the WIofV was responsible for the Covid-19 outbreak. We just need to plant a U.S. civilian biomedical researcher as a secret CIA informant into the project, who could get inside the WiofV and skulk about for evidence. Such a person would have to be suave, debonair, and have the moxie and smarts to pull it off. If I'm not mistaken, that job description fits our very own BC to a T!
(04-30-2020, 02:15 PM)BostonCard Wrote: even if the project has links to the Wuhan institute of virology.I would say, especially since the project has links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology! That would give us an "in" to help prove that the WIofV was responsible for the Covid-19 outbreak. We just need to plant a U.S. civilian biomedical researcher as a secret CIA informant into the project, who could get inside the WiofV and skulk about for evidence. Such a person would have to be suave, debonair, and have the moxie and smarts to pull it off. If I'm not mistaken, that job description fits our very own BC to a T!
Quote:The genomic features described here may explain in part the infectiousness and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.
Quote:The genomic features described here may explain in part the infectiousness and transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 in humans. Although the evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 is not a purposefully manipulated virus, it is currently impossible to prove or disprove the other theories of its origin described here. However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.
