Donald Trump On China

[Khandro]

In office, out of office, the only man to consistently stand up to China. Do you agree they must pay for what they have done?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1446068/Donald-Trump-news-GOP-rally-North-Carolina-10-trillion-dollar-China-pay-covid-vn

[jno]

the last smallpox death was caused by escape from a lab, wasn't it? No doubt everyone thought it was impossible, but human error knows no bounds.

[Peter Pedant]

hi jno
what does the FT says about Trumps latest

smallpox
last imported case
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1746528-1.html

escape was
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_smallpox_outbreak_in_the_United_Kingdom

up one vent ( direction of suction) and then down another against flow - the Prof of virology Beddoes committed suicide

[Peter Pedant]

from the article
here is the person who made the diagnosis

"The last smallpox case in Birmingham, UK, caused by a lab infection in 1978, was initially misdiagnosed by 3 physicians,"

god his colleagues must have loved him. and the little fella goes on to make an international career out of - yes - that one case!

[Khandro]

I have just come across this Spectator article from 29th May by Matt Ridley, one of the sub-headlines is, 'Just because Donald Trump thought that the virus came out of a lab, does not mean it did not'


https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-covid-lab-leak-theory-is-looking-increasingly-plausible