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Post by vintagecomics on Jan 31, 2021 8:39:04 GMT -8
You were in California in July?  Are comic book dealers essential workers now?  A lot of people on the CGC forum perpetuated this including Jaybuck, who actually started it. Jaybuck happens to be a lawyer but didn't understand the travel laws himself. 
You don't have to be an essential worker to travel across the border. The laws state that 'only essential travel' is allowed meaning, non-leisure travel is allowed.
So if you're travelling for fun it's not allowed.
If you're travelling for work it IS allowed.
Hope that clears it up for you.
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Post by Stu on Jan 31, 2021 8:49:02 GMT -8
You were in California in July? Are comic book dealers essential workers now? A lot of people on the CGC forum perpetuated this including Jaybuck, who actually started it. Jaybuck happens to be a lawyer but didn't understand the travel laws himself. You don't have to be an essential worker to travel across the border. The laws state that 'only essential travel' is allowed meaning, non-leisure travel is allowed.
So if you're travelling for fun it's not allowed. If you're travelling for work it IS allowed.
Hope that clears it up for you.
Oh, so this was a thing already? And here I thought I was so clever with the comic book essential worker oxymoron |
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Post by steveinthecity on Jan 31, 2021 9:04:47 GMT -8
You were in California in July? Are comic book dealers essential workers now? A lot of people on the CGC forum perpetuated this including Jaybuck, who actually started it. Jaybuck happens to be a lawyer but didn't understand the travel laws himself.
You don't have to be an essential worker to travel across the border. The laws state that 'only essential travel' is allowed meaning, non-leisure travel is allowed.
So if you're travelling for fun it's not allowed.
If you're travelling for work it IS allowed.
Hope that clears it up for you.
The Canada/U.S. border, correct? edit: Does Jaybuck handle immigration or international commerce legal situations? Wondering why there’s a “facepalm” in that comment. |
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Post by vintagecomics on Jan 31, 2021 9:21:23 GMT -8
A lot of people on the CGC forum perpetuated this including Jaybuck, who actually started it. Jaybuck happens to be a lawyer but didn't understand the travel laws himself.
You don't have to be an essential worker to travel across the border. The laws state that 'only essential travel' is allowed meaning, non-leisure travel is allowed.
So if you're travelling for fun it's not allowed.
If you're travelling for work it IS allowed.
Hope that clears it up for you.
The Canada/U.S. border, correct? edit: Does Jaybuck handle immigration or international commerce legal situations? Wondering why there’s a “facepalm” in that comment. Yes, the Canada / US border.
I don't know what area of law Jaybuck practices but the facepalm was because he seems meticulous and exhaustive in his knowledge whenever he comments on anything in Watercooler but when it was a convenient way of publicly shaming me he was neither meticulous nor exhaustive when it came to the simple understanding that travel for work was allowed.
He was quick to publicly shame me for it while (I can only assume) didn't even perform a quick Google search to see if he was right or not.
The facepalm was because Jaybuck and many others are happy to use a double standard in their logic when it suits them. It's pure hypocrisy. Stu should be all over it.  |
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Post by steveinthecity on Jan 31, 2021 9:25:21 GMT -8
The Canada/U.S. border, correct? edit: Does Jaybuck handle immigration or international commerce legal situations? Wondering why there’s a “facepalm” in that comment. Yes, the Canada / US border.
I don't know what area of law Jaybuck practices but the facepalm was because he seems meticulous and exhaustive in his knowledge whenever he comments on anything in Watercooler but when it was a convenient way of publicly shaming me he was neither meticulous nor exhaustive when it came to the simple understanding that travel for work was allowed.
He was quick to publicly shame me for it while (I can only assume) didn't even perform a quick Google search to see if he was right or not.
The facepalm was because Jaybuck and many others are happy to use a double standard in their logic when it suits them. It's pure hypocrisy. Stu should be all over it. Understood. No one should really be doing that. I miss a lot of posts in the WC the last couple years. |
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Post by Stu on Jan 31, 2021 9:35:39 GMT -8
The Canada/U.S. border, correct? edit: Does Jaybuck handle immigration or international commerce legal situations? Wondering why there’s a “facepalm” in that comment. Yes, the Canada / US border. I don't know what area of law Jaybuck practices but the facepalm was because he seems meticulous and exhaustive in his knowledge whenever he comments on anything in Watercooler but when it was a convenient way of publicly shaming me he was neither meticulous nor exhaustive when it came to the simple understanding that travel for work was allowed. He was quick to publicly shame me for it while (I can only assume) didn't even perform a quick Google search to see if he was right or not. The facepalm was because Jaybuck and many others are happy to use a double standard in their logic when it suits them. It's pure hypocrisy. Stu should be all over it. Says the king of hypocrisy  |
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Post by steveinthecity on Jan 31, 2021 9:39:35 GMT -8
Yes, the Canada / US border. I don't know what area of law Jaybuck practices but the facepalm was because he seems meticulous and exhaustive in his knowledge whenever he comments on anything in Watercooler but when it was a convenient way of publicly shaming me he was neither meticulous nor exhaustive when it came to the simple understanding that travel for work was allowed. He was quick to publicly shame me for it while (I can only assume) didn't even perform a quick Google search to see if he was right or not. The facepalm was because Jaybuck and many others are happy to use a double standard in their logic when it suits them. It's pure hypocrisy. Stu should be all over it. Says the king of hypocrisy  I just noticed Pauly Shore! |
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Post by Stu on Jan 31, 2021 9:41:12 GMT -8
Says the king of hypocrisy I just noticed Pauly Shore!  |
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Post by vintagecomics on Jan 31, 2021 17:32:23 GMT -8
Acc to Denmark it's looking like lockdowns are not slowing down this new Covid-19 variant.
Denmark Sequencing All Covid Samples, Has Alarming View Of UK Variant
Like a speeding car whose brake lines have been cut, the coronavirus variant first spotted in Britain is spreading at an alarming rate and isn't responding to established ways of slowing the pandemic, according to Danish scientists who have one of the world's best views into the new, more contagious strain.
Cases involving the variant are increasing 70% a week in Denmark, despite a strict lockdown, according to Denmark's State Serum Institute, a government agency that tracks diseases and advises health policy.
"We're losing some of the tools that we have to control the epidemic," said Tyra Grove Krause, scientific director of the institute, which this past week began sequencing every positive coronavirus test to check for mutations. By contrast, the United States is sequencing 0.3% of cases, ranking it 43rd in the world and leaving it largely blind to the variant's spread.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday suggested for the first time that the variant may be more deadly than the original virus. Because it can spread more easily, it can also quickly overwhelm medical systems, turning previously survivable bouts with the virus into perilous ones if hospitals are full and medical care is limited.
Danish public health officials say that if it weren't for their extensive monitoring, they would be feeling a false sense of confidence right now. Overall, new daily confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Denmark have been dropping for a month. |
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Post by vintagecomics on Jan 31, 2021 19:44:18 GMT -8
Bret Weinstein, a highly regarded evolutionary biologist has from the earliest days of the pandemic maintained that it is possible that Covid escaped from a lab.
The first time I heard this was last June 2020 and everything he said made sense.
Bill Maher asks him "Is it like a coin toss? Like 50/50 chance it escaped from a lab?"
His reply? "It's far more likely than that. In fact, I said in June that the chances it came from a lab looked to me to be more about 90% So this was never a conspiracy theory. That is a term that was used to make it go away. It's an obvious hypothesis that is in need of testing but we are only now, a year in getting to the point where we can discuss it without being stigmatized. "
The politicization of the pandemic has prevented PROPER research into all areas of the pandemic that would be useful to help fight Covid.
Instead, most politicians took the route that was safest for their political careers at the expense of the truth and countless people suffer because of it.
This is a great, short video that explains how the lab leak theory makes sense.
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Post by barry on Feb 1, 2021 7:52:27 GMT -8
Bret Weinstein, a highly regarded evolutionary biologist has from the earliest days of the pandemic maintained that it is possible that Covid escaped from a lab. The first time I heard this was last June 2020 and everything he said made sense.
Bill Maher asks him "Is it like a coin toss? Like 50/50 chance it escaped from a lab?" His reply? "It's far more likely than that. In fact, I said in June that the chances it came from a lab looked to me to be more about 90% So this was never a conspiracy theory. That is a term that was used to make it go away. It's an obvious hypothesis that is in need of testing but we are only now, a year in getting to the point where we can discuss it without being stigmatized. " The politicization of the pandemic has prevented PROPER research into all areas of the pandemic that would be useful to help fight Covid.
Instead, most politicians took the route that was safest for their political careers at the expense of the truth and countless people suffer because of it.
This is a great, short video that explains how the lab leak theory makes sense.
More and more people are convinced this is what happened. Has anyone brought up reparations from China to USA? |
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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 1, 2021 7:56:40 GMT -8
His reply? "It's far more likely than that. In fact, I said in June that the chances it came from a lab looked to me to be more about 90% So this was never a conspiracy theory. That is a term that was used to make it go away. It's an obvious hypothesis that is in need of testing but we are only now, a year in getting to the point where we can discuss it without being stigmatized. " The politicization of the pandemic has prevented PROPER research into all areas of the pandemic that would be useful to help fight Covid.
Instead, most politicians took the route that was safest for their political careers at the expense of the truth and countless people suffer because of it.
More and more people are convinced this is what happened. Has anyone brought up reparations from China to USA? Reparations? We're talking a scenario that could be very dangerous territory as China is already hugely worried about public perception and they have been slowing down the investigation in Wuhan since the pandemic started.
I don't see how this can end well if found to be true.
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Post by vintagecomics on Feb 1, 2021 8:52:39 GMT -8
If you have 15 mins to listen to this article, it ties a lot of the info together and implicates Fauci to the Covid-19 related researching in Wuhan and the funding, even when it was banned for a short time by the Obama administration.
What is probably MOST disturbing is that Peter Daszak, who penned an article in the Lanclet back in FEBRURAY, 2020 before the pandemic even broke out tried to trash anyone who suggested that the virus was not of natural origin. Peter Daszak is apparently on the WHO team in Wuhan investigating the virus origins and has NO PLANS of investigating the Wuhan lab where most of the world's work on bat coronaviruses is performed.
If this is all true, something smells rotten in Wuhan.
This is long but worthwhile and nobody is being forced to read it.
So, I did a bit of reading and all the articles I find seem to say the same thing with none contradicting each other in any key evidence - not even the left wing apologist news sites (linked at the bottom) contradict the key facts relevant to the story.
This will give you some more insight not only into the investigation of the origins of the lab leak theory and funding but also into reparations as well as this pdf discusses lawsuits against China. This is a great 'all in one' piece on the Fauci involvement and the WIV studies.
In 2014 the US government enacted a Gain Of Function (COF) research moratorium under the Obama administration due to fears about the dangers of the research which included lab leaks.
Fauci circumvented the ban and in 2015 with a Federal grant paid the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) $3.7MIL to continue GOF research to circumvent the moratorium back home in the USA.
The grant given was to do GOF research at WIV on Flu, SARS and MERS by changing their characteristics to make them more contagious and more dangerous and then to study the effects.
Currently, the ethics of using a Federal grant by Fauci to circumvent GOF research off shore is being investigated.
What is MOST interesting about this is that the name Peter Daszak keeps popping up through all of this. He is the president of EcoHealth, a non profit company.
It turns out that Fauci's grant money was sent through Peter Daszak's EcoHealth non-profit company who works with the UK's NIH (National Institute of Health) and does GOF research for the NIH in WIV.
Important to remember that Peter Daszak was the person who penned the Lancelet article below in Feb 2020 at the start of the pandemic and this is what he said:
We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.
Conspiracy theories do nothing but create fear, rumours, and prejudice that jeopardise our global collaboration in the fight against this virus. We support the call from the Director-General of WHO to promote scientific evidence and unity over misinformation and conjecture.14 We want you, the science and health professionals of China, to know that we stand with you in your fight against this virus.
In emails obtained by other sources there are some interesting insights:
The 27 authors “strongly condemn[ed] conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin,” and reported that scientists from multiple countries “overwhelmingly conclude that this coronavirus originated in wildlife.” The letter included no scientific references to refute a lab-origin theory of the virus. One scientist, Linda Saif, asked via email whether it would be useful “to add just one or 2 statements in support of why nCOV is not a lab generated virus and is naturally occuring? Seems critical to scientifically refute such claims!” Daszak responded, “I think we should probably stick to a broad statement.”
Daszak certainly looks like he's trying to dissuade people from following any theory other than the natural origin theory at the Wuhan wet market and he is also extremely apologetic to the Chinese government.
Here is a video of Daszak admitting to the type of Coronavirus GOF research being done in Wuhan. This interview was taken on Dec 9 2019, just a few weeks before China announced the outbreak.
There's more. Apparently, Daszak has gotten $10's of millions in funding from the Pentagon for the same research and eventually hit up grant givers for $1BIL to continue research.
The reason why Peter Daszak's GOF research (and any scientist performing GOF research) would be wary of being blamed for a lab leak is obvious. The research money would dry up, just like it did in 2014 when Obama cut funding to GOF research in the US and even pulled back money that was slated for future research.
Here is the final kicker.
Peter Daszak is on the investigative team on the ground in Wuhan RIGHT NOW and there are NO plans to investigate the possibility of Covid-19 escaping from a lab.
You read that right. NO PLANS FOR THE INVESTIGATION TEAM TO INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBILITY OF COVID-19 ESCAPING FROM A LAB. 
This is very possibly why China was so resistant to allowing investigators into Wuhan in the 1st place (really? It took a year to get a team on the ground to investigate the most serious global event to ever happen on planet earth?)
News sources questioning Daszak's role in the pandemic.
Finally, a GREAT from the WSJ penned by Alina Chan who was one of the earliest scientists to suggest that Covid-19 could have leaked from a lab and was ridiculed for suggesting so by her peers.
A team of WHO researchers has arrived in China but won’t investigate the possibility that the coronavirus originated in a lab.
Couple all of the above with the strong belief that Bret Weinstein believes that there is a 90% chance that Covid-19 escaped from a lab.
Now can someone explain to me why this isn't plastered all over the news?
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Post by Stu on Feb 1, 2021 9:08:21 GMT -8
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Post by Stu on Feb 1, 2021 9:12:40 GMT -8
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Are comic book dealers essential workers now? 
I just noticed Pauly Shore!
