“We’ll never be rid of COVID,” Fauci Said. Surprise surprise!

How “US Special Operations Forces are sabotaging the very strategy for reaching a political settlement that US officials claim to support” and murdering Taliban fighters who laid down their weapons and agreed to work with the government. Amy Goodman interviews the author on Democracy Now! here.

Fomites   These are inanimate objects like doorknobs, shared computer keyboards, surfaces where droplets from coughs and sneezes land, or where hands have touched, which may transmit the virus. Questions that the authorities should be making every attempt to answer include the following.   a)  What % of infections are transmitted via fomites?  (In other…

From David Willman at the LA Times: WASHINGTON — Amid concerns about its effectiveness and multibillion-dollar cost, the Department of Homeland Security has canceled plans to install an automated technology that was meant to speed the 24-hour operations of BioWatch, the national system for detecting a biological attack. The cancellation of the “Generation 3” acquisition was made…

Monkeypox reemerged in Nigeria in 2017 after disappearing for 39 years. Now that’s odd. Here’s a story from NPR.  I have left out the last part of the story, which is based on claims by Michael Worobey.  Worobey tried to cover up research into the origin of AIDS and more recently, the origin of COVID,…

From McNeill and Adelstein at The Independent: It is one of the mysteries of Japan’s ongoing nuclear crisis: How much damage did the 11 March earthquake inflict on the Fukushima Daiichi reactors before the tsunami hit? The stakes are high: if the earthquake structurally compromised the plant and the safety of its nuclear fuel, then…

From the WaPo: Despite months of dire warnings and millions in taxpayer dollars, less than half of the 229 million doses of H1N1 vaccine the government bought to fight the pandemic have been administered — leaving an estimated 71.5 million doses that must be discarded if they are not used before they expire…(and 25 million…