This is bullshit. No credible sources outside the GOP caucus, and Rand Paul give any credence to this. Now, it is certainly the case that the #45 administration did a horrible job in response to the pandemic, certainly increasing morbidity and mortality, a problem that continues to this day. smh.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Jeffery Sachs is a primary source on this issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sachs#COVID-19

In spring 2020, Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, appointed Sachs as chair of its COVID-19 Commission, whose goals were to provide recommendations for public health policy and improve the practice of medicine. Sachs set up a number of task forces, including one on the origins of the virus.

The Lancet is referenced over a dozen times on Wikipedia’s main COVID-19 page.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: This isn’t news it’s just an opinion piece. Trash

People seem to have no idea who Jefferey Sachs is. Corporate-backed journalism only, please.

Jeffery Sachs in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), May 2022: A call for an independent inquiry into the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

Special concerns surround the presence of an unusual furin cleavage site (FCS) in SARS-CoV-2 that augments the pathogenicity and transmissibility of the virus relative to related viruses like SARS-CoV-1. SARS-CoV-2 is, to date, the only identified member of the subgenus sarbecovirus that contains an FCS, although these are present in other coronaviruses. A portion of the sequence of the spike protein of some of these viruses is illustrated in the alignment shown in Fig. 1, illustrating the unusual nature of the FCS and its apparent insertion in SARS-CoV-2. From the first weeks after the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 became available, researchers have commented on the unexpected presence of the FCS within SARS-CoV-2—the implication being that SARS-CoV-2 might be a product of laboratory manipulation. In a review piece arguing against this possibility, it was asserted that the amino acid sequence of the FCS in SARS-CoV-2 is an unusual, nonstandard sequence for an FCS and that nobody in a laboratory would design such a novel FCS.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Same dude also jumped on the Robert F. Kennedy Jr podcast to push this idea and thinks Ukraine should cede its land to Russia. Source sounds like a mouthpiece for a certain agenda.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, a peace agenda.

Edit to add: Sachs probably knows more about Russia and Ukraine than every Lemmy user put together. He could give Biden’s own cabinet a run for their money. He was a major figure in the US neoliberal shock therapy of the post-Soviet states, as evidenced by his numerous mentions in the Wikipedia article.

But I digress: this post was about COVID-19.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bet if I suggested the Palestinians just give up the West Bank for peace I'd get a different reaction from you.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Is Palestine currently governed by a fascist coup gov like Ukraine's has been since 2014?

"Israel" is a western colony in Palestine. There's no similarity between these two situations.

[–] colourednumbers 1 points 8 months ago

Because China produced a deadly virus and caused a pandemic the USA should pay? Why?