Is the Corona Virus Global Pandemic a Hoax?

Ron Unz, over at the Unz Review, is running several articles arguing that the novel corona virus, COVID-19, is a US biowarfare agent most likely launched by the US armed-forces contingent at last December's Military Games in Wuhan, China. The purpose for this dastardly deed? To wreck China's economy and give the US a chance to remain global hegemon for at least another few months.

The idea seems dopey to me. To date, Covid-19 has killed far fewer than the regular late-fall flu. What's more, those said to have died are mostly, like me, over 65, i.e., a burden on the economy, not a productive asset to be preserved.

True, in response to the outbreak of this supposedly deadly virus, China has really hammed it up, barring citizens in their homes, locking down whole cities, building multiple massive hospitals overnight.

Sure makes it look like the virus is a real threat. Yet in America, the reaction to the arrival of COVID-19 is almost somnolent, with fewer tests for the virus having been conducted in the whole of the US than have been conducted in the single Canadian Province of British Columbia.

Meantime, here in test-crazy BC, life continues seemingly unaltered. The streets are filled with vehicles, the stores are filled with shoppers, and although stores are said to have sold out of face masks, no one I've seen is wearing this life-saving device.

But why fake an epidemic? Well, for China, it provides an opportunity to test their biowarfare response systems, while for Donald Trump it allows him to breeze through the crisis exuding optimism and confidence and demonstrating that America is truly so great again that it can just shrug off the non-existent virus while hardly moving a finger to stop it.

Who knows? But for me, as a commentator, it looks to be a win-win situation. If the bug's for real and I join the ranks of the elderly victims of viral voracity, I won't be around for anyone to ridicule me, but if I'm still here by summer, I'll take a bow.

And as the 2019—2020 season flu death toll in the US heads for 20,000, the New York Post reports: Coronavirus death toll reaches six in US. To that, I say — with all due respect for the diseased, LOL.

Related:
CanSpeccy: The novel Corona Virus Is Going Global and If You're Old, It May Just Have Been Targeted On You
Jon Rappoport: How to stage a fake epidemic (and brainwash billions of people)

Repurposing Britain's New, Superb, and Totally Useless Warships

Speaking of Britain's newest additions to the Royal Naval fleet, the Aircraft Carriers HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Queen Elizabeth, Lord Alan West, former British Admiral and Labour peer, has stated that the US feels a touch of jealousy toward the Royal Navy. The reason for this supposed jelousy is the alleged superiority of the British vessels relative to those of the American navy.

But as someone over at the Russian website Sputnik points out, whether an aircraft carrier is British or America:

... all it takes is one well placed super fast missile ...

And it's not just Russia that has a few of those.

But given that these ships have been built and the fact that, at least to look at, they are mighty impressive ships, the best thing to do with them is convert them to emergency relief vessels. As such, they would be equipped with helicopters and fixed wing aircraft for the deliver food, water, a prefab hospital and other medical aid, temporary housing, and equipment for infrastructure repair wherever on the face of the earth life has been disrupted by hurricane, earthquake, volcanic eruption, tsunami or disease.

Such a transformation would provide concrete evidence of post-Brexit Britain's aim to be friend of all the world. Meantime, Britain should emulate Switzerland by creating a civilian militia, every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 65 to possess and know how to use a rifle — just to remind any future continental Hitlerian that invading Britain would be a bad idea.

Also, the Brits need to get back to training native citizens as engineers in place of the imported brains they've come, like the Americans, increasingly to rely on,. Then, purely for the purpose of deterrence, they should get back to the drawing board and develop a credible independent delivery system for Britain's nukes.

As for the Trident subs, they can sell 'em to the Canadians, to replace the earlier consignment of British-built dud subs now reaching the end of their expensively unproductive life.

Trump Organizing 2020 Landslide

Washington Post:  U.S. signs peace deal with Taliban agreeing to full withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan

New York Times:  U.S. Strikes Deal With Taliban to Withdraw Troops From Afghanistan

And this:

Tass: Trump ready to meet with leaders of Russia, China, Britain, France to discuss arms control

And if he were to add reform of the banking system, Trump would truly set the US on course to renewed greatness.

Who Said Asians Aren't Creative

China is reportedly gathering a 100,000-strong army of ducks which they will send to Pakistan to help combat a massive locust infection, according to the Associated Press, citing local media.

As a result, Pakistan will be rid of millions of locusts, and when the Chinese avian army returns home, China will have 100,000 well fattened Ducks ready to roast. Brilliant!

COVID-19, an Agent of Demographic Change: How the New Corona Virus Will Change the World

 The novel corona virus COVID-19 has three interesting properties:

(1) It is highly infectious;
(2) It has a high lethality, killing something like 3% of those infected;
(3) Risk of mortality increases with age.

What that means is that:

(a) Most people throughout the world will likely contract the disease within the next couple of years;
(b) Several hundred million people worldwide will die from the disease;
(c) Most deaths will be of pensioners in the most developed nations.

What that all means is that:

(i)  The burden of social security in the most developed nations will be radically lifted as the number of pensioners is cut by 10 to 30%, and perhaps by well over half if the virus returns over a number of years;
(ii) The number of young people engaged in the "eldercare" business will be radically reduced;
(iii) The cost of housing will fall and fertility rates will rise as the transfer of assets from the old to the young accelerates.

The most important net effect will be to save the Western nations from self genocide by suppression of native fertility (due to the burden of high housing and social services costs) and an end to mass population replacement immigration as native workers are released from service to the older generation, and thus freed to take the jobs that "natives won't do."

Whether as the result of a lucky accident or the planned release of an engineered virus, the overall effects will likely be judged by historians to have been beneficial.

Related: 
CanSpeccy: The novel Corona Virus Is Going Global and If You're Old, It May Just Have Been Targeted On You
Real Clear Science: Five Reasons not to Panic About the COVID-19 Coronavirus

Emerg. Micr. & Infections: Discovery of a subgenotype of human coronavirus NL63 associated with severe lower respiratory tract infection in China, 2018
ZH: Did China Close First Lab To Sequence Covid-19 Out Of Fear It Would Lose Bat Soup Narrative?
NY Post: Don’t buy China’s story: The coronavirus may have leaked from a lab
ZH: UK Prepares Giant Morgue in London's Hyde Park
The Economist: A broadguess is that 25-70% of the population of any infected country may catch the disease
The Lancet: RETRACTED: Chinese medical staff request international medical assistance in fighting against COVID-19
James Howard Kunstler: Hey, It’s Not Just Corona Virus
DM: Now a DOG tests positive for coronavirus

Independent: Coronavirus could kill half a million Brits and infect 80% of UK population

ZH: Japan, China Close Schools Nationwide\
South China Morning Post: Coronavirus far more likely than Sars to bond to human cells due to HIV-like mutation, scientists say
ZH: Covid-19 Infects Iranian Vice President, Kills Iran Ambassador To Vatican
ZH: Pope Cancels Event Over "Slight Illness" After Shaking Hands With 'Mask-Wearing' Public In St. Peter's Square

The Argument for Mass Immigration:

Immigrants take the jobs natives don't want:

Nigerian, Billy Chemimir, accused serial killer healthcare worker tied to a THOUSAND unexplained deaths of elderly patients is indicted on additional murder charges. Source

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Are Prince Harry and Meghan More Than Britain Can Afford?

Daily Mail: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's security plans are 'unworkable' as the Met Police is 'severely lacking trained officers' warns ex-protection officer as bill rockets to £20m-a-year.

Simplest thing, really, would be for the Queen, in her capacity as Commander-in-Chief of Britain's armed forces, to order Harry back to Afghanistan for a bit, while sending Meghan to cool off at the Tower of London.

And In Other News:
Harvard Epidemiologist: Y'all Gonna Get the Corona Virus
(but it probably won't kill ya)

MSM Money: Stocks Continue Monday's Plunge
(This could kill ya, or at least your pension fund, already off 7%).

The Russian Rocket Engine That Takes Americans into Space

The Russian-built RD 180 Rocket engine that powers America's
Shuttle replacement -- Boeing's CST-100 Starliner.

Boeing Corporation depends on Russia not only for the supply of rocket engines to power it's Space Shuttle replacement, the CST-100 Starliner, but also for titanium components for its aircraft manufacturing business. According to this Zero Hedge report, at least 40% of Russian titanium aircraft parts have been sold to Boeing in the last several years (Russia has since threatened to halt titanium exports to the US). This should surprise no one familiar with Boeing's management, with it's board of directors comprised of novelists, song writers, accountants, and female ex-diplomats, but not a single engineer.

Sussex ex Royal Sour Grapes

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have caved to pressure from the British throne and abandoned their "Sussex Royal" brand. That seems only reasonable since they apparently wish to have nothing to do with the British Royal Family business. Perhaps Prince Harry will drop the Prince too, which would have the advantage of making him eligible for citizenship in Canada where he and Meghan are presently residing. 

Meantime, though, there is a certain sourness in the tone of an announcement on the "Sussex Royal" website concerning the planned change in branding:

While there is not any jurisdiction by The Monarchy or Cabinet Office over the use of the word ‘Royal’ overseas, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex do not intend to use ‘Sussex Royal’ or any iteration of the word ‘Royal’ in any territory (either within the UK or otherwise) when the transition occurs Spring 2020.

Bizarrely, the statement also includes the following:

As agreed and set out in January, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will retain their “HRH” prefix, thereby formally remaining known as His Royal Highness The Duke of Sussex and Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Sussex. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will no longer actively use their HRH titles as they will no longer be working members of the family as of Spring 2020.

Um, so they are to be known as His and Her Royal Highness, while not actively using the His and Her Royal Highness appellations, which is only sensible since, in Canada where they presently reside, foreign titles are not recognized. [There is no exception in the case of Canada's Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II either, since the Queen is, by a 1953 Act of the Parliament of Canada, Queen of Canada, and hence the only person with a legally recognized Canadian title.]

But what, then, are we supposed to call this troubled and somewhat troublesome pair? Mr. and Mrs. Battenberg (the original name of the British Royal family)? Sounds good. A very suitable family name for recent immigrants to Canada. Should fit in well with the existing mix of odds and ends of European humanity who make up most of the Canadian population.

But how then will plain Mr. and Mrs. B  make a living? For now that seems to remain an open to question, but Harry could perhaps earn a bit, as  an advocate for a baldness cure. Meantime, taking advantage of the family name, Mrs. B's charming face could perhaps grace advertisements for a commercial variant of the Battenburg cake, invented to celebrate the wedding of Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, who married Prince Henry of Battenberg, from whom the present Royal family derived its name (now Anglicized to Mountbatten).

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Eugenics: how to proceed, and how not to

The Financial Times reports:

A Downing Street adviser has been forced to quit after attracting criticism for his comments on eugenics and whether black people on average have lower IQs. ... The resignation came after Boris Johnson’s spokesperson repeatedly refused to say on Monday whether he agreed with the position of Andrew Sabisky, a “contractor” hired to work for Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s closest adviser. ... Mr Sabisky’s exact role in government was unclear. Reports suggested he was hired as part of Mr Cummings’ drive to bring “weirdos and misfits” into government, while Downing Street insiders said he was a “contractor” working on forecasting. His role covered the government’s strategic defense review, as well as other policy areas. ... In a 2016 interview Mr Sabisky defended his views on eugenics. “Eugenics are about selecting ‘for’ good things. Intelligence is largely inherited and correlates with better outcomes: physical health, income, lower mental illness,” he told Schools Week.

Whether Sabitsky's ideas on eugenics make sense is not clear to me, but eugenics is a dirty word. Sabitsky, having carelessly blabbed about the subject was bound to be in trouble on being appointed as a government advisor. 

But clearly the Western nations have insane dysgenic reproductive policies that urgently need correction. 

First, they give dumb girls who get knocked up during their teenage years free board and lodging. then they urge intelligent girls to go for a higher education and a career. Hence an inverse relationship between intelligence, however the Hell you measure it, and fertility. That's a sure recipe for civilizational collapse, followed by takeover by immigrants of alien race, religion and culture.

The solution — as I’ve laid it out here before, maybe many times — is (a) zero welfare for indigent mothers who fail to identify their partners, among whom can be determined the paternity of children by compulsory DNA testing; (b) debtors gaol for fathers who fail to provide support for their illegitimate progeny; and (c) a massive tax-refund-based maternity benefit, paid in cash to mothers for life, the benefit being based on the income of both parents. This would give intelligent mothers more reason to chose motherhood over career, since it would assure women with children an income from their partner even if the SOB walks out on her.

The other thing you have to do is slam to the door on mass immigration of both smart people and dumb. Immigration suppresses native fertility by lowering wages and raising the cost of everything, including government (because of the extra infrastructure needed) and housing. 

Present immigration to the Western nations amounts to a program of European genocide.

A Courageous Jew's View of the Holocaust Industry

How odd of God to chose the Jews.

But odder still are those who chose the Jewish god

 but spurn the Jews. 

Except, not really.

 Jews are for the most part like members of any other group, good people, or as good as people get, anyhow. Unfortunately, they are represented by obnoxious organizations such as B'nai Brith, the Anti-Defamation League, and much of the media and entertainment industries, which endlessly complain about the wicked anti-Semitism of those among whom Jews live.

Such complaints have two objectives. First, to stoke paranoia among diaspora Jews, thus to discourage the assimilation of Jews to the host civilization. Second, to justify the monstrous crimes of the Jewish State of Israel against the indigenous Palestinian inhabitants. In addition, endless false complaints of widespread anti-Semitism irritate some people to the point of expressing views that are promptly latched upon to justify Jewish complaints of anti-Semitism.

This exploitation of supposed Jewish victimhood was examined in detail by a courageous Jewish student at the University of Toronto whose 2010 Masters degree thesis was entitled:

The Victimhood of the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust Education

For all those who wish for good relations among Jews and Gentiles, it is worth noting this courageous statement. 

Abstract: This paper focuses on issues of Jewish identity, whiteness and victimhood within hegemonic Holocaust education. I argue that today, Jewish people of European descent enjoy white privilege and are among the most socio-economically advantaged groups in the West. Despite this privilege, the organized Jewish community makes claims about Jewish victimhood that are widely accepted within that community and within popular discourse in the West. I propose that these claims to victimhood are no longer based in a reality of oppression, but continue to be propagated because a victimized Jewish identity can produce certain effects that are beneficial to the organized Jewish community and the Israeli nation-state. I focus on two related Holocaust education projects – the March of the Living and the March of Remembrance and Hope – to show how Jewish victimhood is instrumentalized in ways that obscure Jewish privilege, deny Jewish racism and promote the interests of the Israeli nation-state.

Sources: 
Jennifer Peto: The Victimhood of the Powerful: White Jews, Zionism and the Racism of Hegemonic Holocaust Education by Jennifer Peto. A thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of ArtsGraduate Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in EducationOntario Institute for Studies in Education. 2010.
AlethoNews: Unprecedented: master’s thesis on Jewish white privilege and Israel attacked in Canadian legislature

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What Is Intelligence?

Over at the Unz Review, an innocent named Sam complains that in writing about IQ, resident psychologist, James Thomson:

… does not address that/those portion(s) of the human brain that deal with intelligence.

But like the psychologists, Sam has the wrong model. The brain isn’t like a computer. There is no central processing unit that determines computing power, FLOPS or IQ.

The brain is the product of evolution. It is built on the Rube Goldberg principle. A bunch of junk put together and then endlessly tested in the struggle for existence, endlessly modified by mutation, and endlessly retested.

The end product of this evolutionary process does all kinds of amazing things in amazing ways, but not in the neat tidy ways a good engineer would design things to work, but maybe completely crazy ways, but ways that work nevertheless — somehow, just…

The result is that intelligence is not one thing. It is not the product of one bit of brain or one brain module. It is the product of numerous neurological modules and networks, each doing its own thing, each dependent on its own particular structure and biochemistry, each subject in its development to its own set of controlling genes. Did you know that, in the male brain, there’s even a specialized knot of neurons that seems to have no function except to light up at a girl’s smile? Cool.

That’s why IQ testing is nonsense. It’s possible to be both a genius and an idiot — in different areas of mental activity: an obvious fact, but one that seems rarely to have crossed the mind of a psychologist.

But the IQ-ist's notion of intelligence is much wronger than would result merely from the mistaken notion that intelligence is a single thing embodied in a single bit of the brain, equally involved in the composition of a symphony, the formulation of a mathematical theorem, or the deftness of the artist's or surgeon's hand, and hence to be viewed as a single variable defined by one number, or intelligence quotient.

The IQ-ist compounds the error of assuming that the brain has a central processing unit that determines the intelligence of every thought or action, by making the further error of assuming that intelligence is strongly genetically determined. This idea leads IQ-ists naturally to a toxic belief in the existence of immutable racial and class hierarchies in intelligence, an idea bolstered by test results that blatantly confuse cultural and environmental differences in cognitive development with racial and class differences in genetic endowment for intelligence.

It is true that intelligence has a genetic basis, as does every other organismal trait. But the influence of genetics is always modified by environment. Raise a child in an iron cage without human contact, as was the fate of the Russian Tsar, Ivan VI (1740-1764), crowned at the age of two months but deposed a year later and then held in solitary confinement until his murder 23 years later, and it will severely stunt the mind, as was the case with poor Ivan. From that we can deduce that  intelligence is not fixed, but is something that grows or withers in response to experience and use.

That, in turn, means that intelligence is not fixed genetically or socially. It develops over time, increasing or decreasing according to circumstances. Hence, the idle Harvard undergraduate with a perfect SAT score may be outpaced intellectually by the committed student of lesser SAT-endorsed intelligence who strives for mastery whether in academia, socially or in some other sphere of endeavor.  

Accompanying growth or atrophy of intellectual skills occur radical changes in brain structure. During infancy,  hundreds of thousands of the brain's synaptic connections are eliminated every second over a period of many months. Later, during adolescence, much of the tissue of the cerebral cortex, the supposed seat of intelligence, is eliminated. Such developmental processes undermine the idea, common among IQ-ists, that intelligence is a function of brain mass. The implication, rather, is that, depending on mental effort and experience, intelligence grows or fails to grow whatever the individuals genetic endowment. 

And that is obvious when you come to think of it. Give a plumber a plumbing problem and he'll likely figure it out faster than you could, even if you've got a high IQ and understand hydraulics. Same in any field: hard work and experience increases performance, including problem-solving skill, and that equals increased intelligence. 

Top US Biowarfare Expert, Professor, Lawyer: COVID19 Is a Biological Weapon Escaped from the Wuhan Biowarfare Lab.

Re: The Above Disappeared Video: Google shoves another video down the Memory Hole. Naming the service U-Tube, as in a toilet bowl syphon, was inspired. But here it is via Great Game India:



"All BSL laboratories exist solely for the purpose of developing biological warfare agents."

"You just can't believe anything the Chinese Government, the WHO, the CDC are telling you. They all lie. They know what's going on, so you going to have to figure it out as best you can. It does seem to me ... that this was a DNA genetically engineered biological agent leaking out of Wuhan that has gain-of-function properties ... I think they are doing something with SARS to make it more lethal and more infectious.

Is this guy on the level, spewing propaganda, or just nuts? Seems odd saying "this was a DNA genetically engineered biological agent," when we know that COVID-19 is an RNA virus.

Related:
CanSpeccy: The novel Corona Virus Is Going Global and If You're Old, It May Just Have Been Targeted On You

Global Research: Biological Weapons: A Useful and Timely Factual Overview

Re: Francis Boyle:
Interview with Francis Boyle on Biowarfare: U.S. Germ Warfare Program a "Criminal Enterprise" https://worldbeyondwar.org/boyle-charges-u-s-germ-warfare-program-is-criminal-enterprise/

Anthrax War (documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pquql...

Weaponizing Biotech – China’s War for Biological Dominance https://greatgameindia.com/weaponizing-biotech-chinas-war-for-biological-dominance/

2019: Gates Foundation, Others, Simulate, Outbreak of Novel Coronavirus http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/about

2017: Inside Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487

2015: Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debatehttps://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate-34502

Feminists for Global Genocide, No. 79

Patricia MacCormack, a professor of philosophy who "researches" feminism, queer theory, posthuman theory, horror film, body modification, animal rights/abolitionism, cinesexuality, and ethics” at Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom calls for people to stop having babies so as to let the human race go extinct to fight climate change.

One might have thought that advocating national suicide, let alone global genocide, from a professor's chair, would be treated by the law as the treason that it undoubtedly is. But in post-Blair's Britain, apparently it's state funded.

What's particularly annoying about this ugly, immigrant alleged scholar and feminist traitor is that she won't set an example to those she seeks to lead by offing herself.

And what's totally bizarre is why the Brits allow such vile people as Patricia MacCormack to indoctrinate their children. 

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Is China Lying About the Numbers Infected with the Wuhan Coronavirus?

A message written in the snow alongside the Tonghui river reads "Goodbye Li Wenliang!"

On February 1, China's social medium Tencent momentarily reported that there were 154 thousand Novel Corona Virus infections in China and 25 thousand related deaths, or about ten times the official Chinese Government numbers.

Vox Popoli questioned the high mortality on the ground that if the Chinese mortality rate were 16% one would have expected a comparable rate outside of China, which is not the case. This evoked some illuminating reader comments, including the following:

10. The real Chinese death rate is the death rate with no medical care, in unheated buildings, in winter. The Western death rate is what you get with basic life support and central heating. 16% versus 2% might be plausible. 24. The high death toll might be accounted for because it's been designed (nature or otherwise) to kill Asian men. 25. You can see the real infection rate more accurately reflected in the number of infected among evacuees: Belgium, 1/9; Japan, 3/200; South Korea, 11/368. These numbers are statistically impossible with the reported infection rates. 58. They wouldn’t have quarantined 50 million plus people, have crematoriums working 24/7, be spraying the streets, be frantically building “hospitals”, limiting testing kits, etc., if the real numbers of infected and dead were the official figures.

But apparently you would be at less risk of contracting the novel Corona virus in Wuhan, China than on the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Thus far, 61 of the 3700 people on board the Diamond Princess have been diagnosed with the virus for an infection rate of 2%* versus a reported rate of only 0.008% in the Wuhan quarantine zone.

Another anomaly in the reported infection rates is the difference between the rate for foreign nationals in China and Chinese nationals. China has reported 19 infections among foreign nationals in China, which out of a population of 50,000 foreign nationals in China, means an infection rate of 0.00038%. Applied to the population of Chinese nationals, that rate of infection would equate to a total of 530,000 infections.

Even if the population of foreign nationals in China is ten times that reported, an equivalent infection rate among Chinese nationals would be over fifty thousand, which is almost twice the rate China is currently reporting.

However, if the number of foreign nationals in China totals a million or so, then the infection rate among foreign nationals would confirm the validity of the numbers reported by the Chinese Government.

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* The number infected with the Wuhan bat flu on the Diamond Princess has now doubled to 136, for an infectrion rate of 4%.

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Central Banking Explained

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Is the Wuhan Coronavirus Uncontained?

Based on Government of China reports, Coronavirus infections in China had reached a total more than four thousand on January 27, having increased at a daily rate of 53% over the previous 11 days.

By January 2, according to government report, the number of infections in China had reached over fourteen thousand, many fewer than the fifty-four thousand that would have resulted had growth in the infection rate continued at 53% a day. Thus, it would appear that control measures adopted in China are limiting the spread of the disease.

But on February 1, China's Tencent briefly reported 154,023 infections, more than ten times the officially reported total, before revising the number to the official count.

So is the coronavirus epidemic in China being contained, or is it raging out of control with an infection rate now doubling every 24 hours?

To that question, the answer should soon be clear. With a doubling time of 24 hours, infections will exceed one million within a week, 128 million in two weeks and more than the entire population of China in less than three weeks.

Let's hope that the Government of China's statistics are correct.

Is the Wuhan Coronavirus a Bioweapon?

The Coronavirus which thus far has been reported by the Government of China to have killed hundreds of people in Wuhan and surrounding Chinese cities, appears to have been genetically engineered. Specifically, though resembling a Corona virus from bats, it has what appear to be genome inserts from the HIV virus.

A newly published BioRxiv paper by Pradhan et al., entitled: Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag. Specifically, they report:

We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1 gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.

If the virus is a product of genetic engineering, the person responsible may be Dr. Peng Zhou of the Wuhan Institute of Virology where he is Leader of the Bat Virus Infection and Immunization Group.

That the Coronavirus epidemic is due to the deliberate release, or accidental escape, of a bioweapon, or that Dr. Peng Zhou has anything to do with the creation of a bioweapon, is on the evidence available, mere a surmise and may be entirely false.

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Buy-the-Dip, No. 79: Boeing: Another Great Investment Opportunity

Boeing is another great opportunity in our series: Buy-the-Dip.

Trading at a small multiple of just under 50, this is a stock that'll be going places just as soon as Boeing gets its 737MAX certified to go places [re-certified, that is], as the following interview with CEO, David Calhoun, reveals.

CNBC: You believe in this airplane? Calhoun: Absolutely, absolutely ... CNBC: Why should people have confidence in the [737]MAX? Calhoun: If we didn't believe we were going to field an airplane that was safer than the safest demonstrated airplane that's out there today, we wouldn't do it. So says the accountant with no expertise in engineering, let alone aviation, but the author of the CD album "Day Drinkin'".

Seems like Calhoun must have had a few before the interview.

Anyone who knows anything about the problems with the 737MAX knows it's a fundamentally flawed aircraft, being inherently unstable and requiring a computer-controlled stabilization mechanism to keep it in level flight.

So even if the totally crap stabilization mechanism (MCAS, maneuvering characteristics Augmentation System, which is bullshit for Anti-Stall System or ASS) worked with total reliability, which it totally didn't, the plane would be vastly inferior in fundamental safety to any of a multitude of planes already out there.

Related:
CanSpeccy: Boeing: Building Planes Designed by Clowns Supervised By Monkeys

How I Misjudged Tesla: An Idiot's Confession

As an investor I am an imbecile. I have this stupid idea that a company is worth only as much as is justified by the profits it makes, or might make. Tesla's flight into the clear blue empyrean reveals my idiocy, as the following analysis by Wolf Richter proves:

How much should Tesla be worth, if it ever makes a big profit? In terms of earnings per share, Tesla’s annual net loss translates into EPS of -$4.92. So if Tesla is ever able to make an annual net income of $862 million – a swing of $1.7 billion – it would have EPS of about +$4.92. Now, this assumes that Tesla doesn’t sell any shares or hand out any shares to executives in their compensation packages, which would dilute EPS. So let’s assume the share-count stays the same for once. In that glorious future year where Tesla makes $4.92 a share, instead of losing $4.92 a share, what would it be worth, as an automaker in a stagnant saturated industry? At a PE ratio of 20 (giving Tesla the benefit of all doubts), its shares on that glorious day in the future when it finally has an annual EPS of $4.92, the stock would still be richly priced at 20 x $4.92, giving it a share price of $98.40. Just to point out how crazy this has gotten: This evening – upon the announcement of 2% revenue growth and a 25% plunge in quarterly net income despite $133 million in regulatory credits, and of an annual loss of $862 million – Tesla’s shares spiked nearly 12% to $648.

And to think that, after doubling my money, I sold Tesla at $70. Indeed, I am such a money moron that even now I cannot see how I was wrong. Maybe, I suffer the consequence of having run my own business for too long: the experience inculcates this mad idea that the whole point of a business is to make a profit, whereas in fact, a flashly loss is, well, more profitable. 

Boeing Got the Monkey Management Virus from Jack Welch's GE

Jim McNerney was President, CEO, and Chairman of Boeing from 2005 through 2015. He was Chairman in 2016. During a quarterly earnings conference call on 24 July 2014 with Boeing’s senior management he had this exchange with a reporter:

Bloomberg News: Jim, you have a birthday coming up next month. …Will you be at your desk, and has the Board approved you staying on past age 65? Jim McInerney, CEO: Yes, the heart will still be beating. The employees will still be cowering {laughing}. I’ll be working hard; there’s no end in sight.

As Fabius Maximus comments:

[McInerny] learned that workers are cattle while working from 1982 – 2001 as an executive at GE under an architect of modern corporate America – Jack Welch.  Under his leadership, Boeing decayed to a shell of the once-great aerospace giant. For this he was lavishly paid. He earned $80 million in 2013-2015 and retired with a $4 million for 15 years pension – plus uncountable other perks.

So now those giants of America's corporate leadership have shown the way, every ambitious American executive will be intently focused on looting the company at the expense of workers, shareholders and the mass of unfortunate victims who depend on the company's product or service.

Related:

CanSpeccy: Boeing: Building Planes Designed by Clowns Supervised By Monkeys

Death of the West: Autism and Atheism

Vox Popoli postulates a correlation between autism and atheism.

I first postulated my hypothesis concerning a link between the autism spectrum and atheism back in 2007 in response to a post by PZ Myers at Pharyngula in which he and other atheists were bragging about their relatively high Asperger's Quotient scores. I wrote: "Obviously, more comprehensive and scientific tests would be advised before any definite conclusion can be reached, but these initial observations do appear to indicate a possibility that atheism could be nothing more than a minor mental disorder."

 In that connection it may be noted that alleles for autism are reported to overlap broadly with alleles for high intelligence.

This correlation supports the notion that atheism is a consequence of rational thought. Certainly, there's little rational basis for theism, other than the fact that a society without a religion is doomed to self-destruction as is evident in the West today.

Unfortunately, it requires more than a couple of extra IQ points to recognize the necessity of irrational faith. It takes a civilization and an proper education system, both of which the Western nations have now jettisoned. 

Headlines of the Day, No. 79

Daily Mail: Prince Charles flew 16,000 miles in just 11 days using three private jets and one helicopter before proudly posing with Greta Thunberg in Davos  (after that he flew to Israel)

When the American novelists F. Scott Fitzgerald remarked that “The rich are different from you and me” Ernest Hemingway is said to have replied: “Yes, they have more money." Today, one might say: “Yes, they produce more toxic gases."

Zero Hedge: Did China Steal Coronavirus From Canada And Weaponize It?

Trump Addresses March for Life

Niall Ferguson on the Irrelevance of Greta Thunberg

Mass Immigration Is Bad for Britain (and Every Other Nation of European People)

This guy is suave, but he won't say that when you have a below replacement fertility rate and you allow millions of immigrants to compete with your own people for jobs and housing, you are engaged in genocide and population replacement.

Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term genocide, said of the term that it may refer simply to:

a coordinated plan aimed at destruction of the essential foundations of the life of national groups so that these groups wither and die like plants that have suffered a blight.

Such is precisely the fate of the English in their own capital city, of London, where in many boroughs the English are not even the largest minority.

Savile Town, England where only 48 of 4,033 residents are white, 
native British. Source.

Likewise in England`s second city, Birmingham, and my father's home town of Leicester and many other towns and urban centers throughout Britain.

Related:
The 'Great Replacement' In Switzerland

A recent study by the Federal Office of Statistics showed the over-representation of certain nationalities among welfare recipients. Thus at the end 2017, 83% of Somalians and 54% of Eritreans and Congolese living in Switzerland are on welfare. More generally, of the 350,000 beneficiaries of social assistance, 57% are foreigners.

A study by the Zurich university of sciences came to the conclusion that 21% of young Muslims living in Switzerland consider that sharia law is superior to Swiss law.

... a Swiss central Islamic committee has been established with some 3,500 members. The organization has been accused of encouraging its members to engage in polygamy and female genital mutilation. Its members are also being sued for supporting Al Qaeda.

.... According the Pew Research Center, around 6% of the population is Muslim, around 400,000 people. According to Pew’s forecasts, the Muslim population could in 2050 make up between 8% and 12% of the Swiss population.

... the vote against mass immigration did not lead to new rules for the movement of people between Switzerland and the European Union, because of the gridlock of the EU institutions.

And: 

French Intellectual Sentenced To 2 Months Jail After Calling Mass Immigration An "Invasion"

The corner of Yorkshire colonized by Muslim settlers

Sweden Terrorized By Immigrant Bombers and Rapists

Understanding the Fabian Window

George Orwell: Wells, Hitler And The World State

Harry and Meghan, the Super-Sensitive Royals

Harry and Meghan claim to have been driven from Harry's native Britain by British racism, the Daily Mail reporting that:

... In November 2016, Harry lashed out at the 'wave of abuse and harassment' the US actress had faced from the media – citing the 'racial undertones of comment pieces' among his concerns.

Oh dear, what a sad state of affairs we have reached when even members of the Royal Family claim victim status.

The mail further reports that:

...The couple are said to see their long-term future in the US – but not, while President Donald Trump is President with friends claiming while the couple plan to live in Canada at first their ultimate aim is to have a home and business in Los Angeles.

So Canada is not exactly where they want to be, just a kind of holding zone until the US of A has a president they find more acceptable than the one elected by the American people.

Meantime, the Mail reports, poor Liz II is under the gun:

... to find a way forward because the Sussexes could give a tell-all interview to their friend Oprah Winfrey... if they do not get their way...

Which sounds like, you know, blackmail. 

And just to give the threat greater credibility, Harry's close friend, broadcaster Tom Bradby, warned that in an interview with Oprah Winfrey they could:

... 'sound off' about the royal family's 'racism and sexism'

And blackmail with a big prize at stake:

... The Duke of Sussex wants his 93-year-old grandmother, father and brother to let him and his wife keep their royal titles while living abroad and grabbing 'financial independence' to earn their own money using the Sussex brand, which experts say could be worth £400million.

And there you have it. All that lubbly jubbly to be grabbed selling the SussexRoyal insignia while telling those stuffy Royal Brits to go stuff themselves. 

Unfortunately, for the SussexRoyal pair, they may find Canadian "racism" as appalling as British Racism, if comments in the Vancouver Sun are anything to go by. Thus one Jannick Slavik writes:

... So Trudeau has approved an initial 1,000,000 RCMP security expense for these leaches? What a joke And airhead Megan says she wants to stay in Canada until After Trump is gone? It’s going to be another 5 years of expense for these losers

And that comment raises another question. In their declared intention to live outside the United States as long as Donald Trump remains President, Harry and wife are taking a political stance that is  clearly incompatible with the political impartiality of Britain's constitutional monarchy.

The implication is clear: Prince Harry should give up his Royal title. Then, he and Mrs Harry Mountbatten Windsor* can live wherever they want for whatever reason they want, whether their reasons, however political, are privately held or publicly declared.

This necessary transition from public figures to private individuals will free Harry and Meg to get as rich as croesus without causing Britain's constitutional monarchy any taint of either  commercialization or politicization.

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* The original family name was Battenberg, which might suit Harry, reduced to the status of a regular Canadian, better than Mountbatten Windsor, the cumbersome made-up name that he currently goes by.

Related:
Daily Mail: Harry regrets

Daily Mail: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle STILL call themselves 'Their Royal Highnesses' in statement released on SussexRoyal.com website minutes after the Palace announces they are quitting royal life , dropping HRH titles and won't receive any more taxpayers' cash

Globe and Mail: 
Harry and Meghan, and why members of the Royal Family can’t live in Canada

Globe and Mail:
The Canadian Crown meets residual royalty: The awkward truth about Harry and Meghan in Canada

Globe and Mail:‘Meghan and Harry: If you are reading these comments, please take them to heart and stay in Britain!’ Readers debate: Can the royal couple live in Canada?

Angus Reid Institute: 
Royal Tab: Vast majority of Canadians don’t want to pay costs associated with the Sussexes’ move to Canada

Globe and Mail: 
The Canadian Crown meets residual royalty: The awkward truth about Harry and Meghan in Canada

Globe and Mail:
Meghan and Harry move to Canada: The plan so far, and the questions it raises

Globe and Mail:
Meghan Markle’s father to testify in legal row with tabloid

CanSpeccy:
The Crackbrained Sussexes: Dictating Terms to the Queen