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Apr 1·edited Apr 1Liked by Alex Washburne

You, a**h***. You got me. DAMN!

lol-ing my way through the day with a smile. Gratitude.

PS: My email signature line now appears like this based upon your recent revelation that you'll be deep-sixing your Substack presence (sans today's April Fools offering):

M.H. "Reggie" VanderVeen, D.D.S.

"Be happy. Shop at REI. The rest is just details."

--Alex Washburne, PhD (upon his exit from Substack)

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Apr 1Liked by Alex Washburne

Happy April Fool's Day to you, as well! Outstanding summary!

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Apr 1Liked by Alex Washburne

Ooooh! I shared this to my FB page and was amazed to see it at the top of my news feed (usually everything I post other than cute animal pictures gets buried at the bottom of the feed). So, the title fooled the Algos! Yes...they are still at the censoring game at FB. Thanks Alex! LOL

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Apr 5Liked by Alex Washburne

Thank you, Al! Truth will prevail!!

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Enjoyed your post. Too bad it wasn't true that we had some conclusive proof one way or the other. But at this point I'm afraid we won't see any more proof. Both sides have settled into trench warfare, lobbing bombs at each other. No peace negotiations are in process, putting anything productive in doubt.

It was nice to see your name in Jeffrey Sachs's article "What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?" last month:

"A powerful recent assessment by mathematical biologist Alex Washburne reaches the conclusion 'beyond reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 emerged from a lab…' He also notes that the collaborators 'proceeded to mount what can legitimately be called a disinformation campaign' to hide the laboratory origin."

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/covid-19-gain-of-function-us-research

Jeffrey Sachs did urge three "urgent actions" in his article:

-- an independent scientific investigation in which all laboratories involved in the EcoHealth Alliance research program in the US and China fully open their books and records to independent investigators.

-- a worldwide halt on gain of function research until an independent global scientific body sets grounds rules for biosafety.

-- the UN General Assembly to establish rigorous legal and financial accountability for governments that violate international safety norms through dangerous research activities that threaten the health and security of the rest of the world.

Interesting ideas, and it's productive to see concrete solutions. But none of the three seems likely to happen, and I still think a different effort would be more helpful. Something more like an Asolimar Conference and/or constructive exchanges in scientific journals. But that's human relations, not science, and I don't see either of those ideas happening either.

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Apr 1Liked by Alex Washburne

So glad to hear from you and your summary. Obviously these labs have little supervisory oversight. It’s a subject that most in government don’t have a clue about, just that it’s something to do with saving the world from toxic viruses. Rand Paul seems to be on a bit of a tear about it but he’s the only one I’m aware of. Does anyone know if there is any kind of a legitimate inquiry taking place? Elaine DeWar’s book on the origin of the deadliest pandemic in 100 years goes into some depth about the origins with a list of the usual suspects. There needs to be a very serious investigation into their deceit and goals. Why are they working on making deadly viruses that don’t even exist in nature? Is there a more sinister motivation? The whole thing plus the acceptance of the whitewash is truly scary. Weren’t the “vaccines” concocted using the engineered spike leaving untold numbers seriously injured. This evil deed more than likely will be followed by an even deadlier evil deed if the deranged culprits at the top go unchecked.

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Apr 1Liked by Alex Washburne

lol

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Apr 1Liked by Alex Washburne

Wow! Your title immediately caught my attention! Great summary of what really happened.

Fred Plapp

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Apr 1Liked by Alex Washburne

Got me too. :-)

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Apr 1Liked by Alex Washburne

Got me.

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Also of note, Nick Patterson, the British mathematician who devised the mathematical techniques used by David Reich's lab at Harvard to analyze ancient human DNA has posted an essay on his substack:

https://npatterson.substack.com/p/yet-more-on-covid-origins

"An earlier blog post outlined what I believe to be overwhelming evidence that this dreadful pandemic originated in a Chinese lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology ... In a rational world, the issue of the origins of the pandemic is not so important. There is absolutely no doubt that extremely dangerous experiments that could readily have led to a pandemic, were carried out, and more were planned. They need to be shut down. ...

"Summing up:

• It is very probable that COVID-19 originated in an accidental virus escape from WIV.

• It is essentially certain that attempts were made by US offcials and some virologists to deny the possibility of a lab-leak, and especially the likelihood that US science is implicated in this disaster. ...

• Beyond any doubt some senior virologists including Daszak, Baric and Shi wanted to carry out experiments in Wuhan which were insanely dangerous.

"... Right now there is controversy about whether regulations limiting gain-of-function work need to be tightened. Some virologusts are saying that it’s important not to limit research. But I believe that virology initiated the COVID-19 pandemic causing planet-wide economic loss, massive su?ering and twenty million deaths. If some more limitation of research can prevent another pandemic, I am all in favor."

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It was not a lab leak, it was deliberately released all over the world to create the illusion of a "pandemic". It was a worldwide biological weapons attack.

More here; https://truthaddict.substack.com/p/lab-leak-zoonotic-spillover-or-deliberate

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The 'implausible' conclusion in the Lancet article was something the journal required in order to publish. This itself exposes a flawed scientific process, as it went against what the authors themselves believed was justified by the data. It's strange though that none have broken ranks and since admitted this was the case, that they acquiesced to get publication, which seems like the pressure to conform is very strong. But I just can't imagine Einstein, Darwin, Sagan or Feynmann et al behaving this way, none of these ever cared what the Establishment thought.

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Apr 27·edited Apr 27

We were not only following the path from 1979 until 2010 of the network that stole and created this and other nano particle Frankenstein monsters, but we were in the core network until 2010, long after its development in what we now call covid. SAC had NOC teams dedicated to the surveillance of illegal labs and persons tied to nuclear and biological programs started in the 80s. We were in the core of one of those networks. The unit I worked within all had the same family ties to the same core network historically. Nano particle and atom stitching has made nuclear warfare obsolete just as global order has made national boarders a thing of the past. The global alliance is not new but its war program is. Trotsky and Felix Derinski made the biological war possible with the start of the world revolution of sept 11th 1901. In 1909-10 They trained Chen Duxia and a long list of others including Hitler and my grandfather to wage ware in a different manner. The vaccine of 1917 was the craft of Felix Derenski and Marc Francis. the start of the 2001 revolution we all know and are familiar with including Anthrax. What isn't public is thousands of records collected for the Felix files and the Trotskyist networks that worked hard for the revolution and project contagion that should be released. The CCP didn't create this, the globalist in the US, Iran, Israel and the Ukraine did. Hello Volkow, Francis, Gallo, Kawoka, McGarr, Gates, Strauss and the rest. Fauci is just a gopher.

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PS April Fool so funny!

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Scott Alexander, who runs the very popular Astral Codex X which is the substack instantiation of his blog Slate Star Codex, ran a hideously long piece* last week titled: "Practically-A-Book Review: Rootclaim $100,000 Lab Leak Debate: I watched 15 hours of COVID origins arguments so you don't have to - but you should!" March 28, 2024. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-rootclaim

* cut and pasted into a word document, word said it was 15,111 words. I am not enough of a masochist to have read it any detail. I just scrolled through to the punchline.

Punchline two punters bet $100,000 on a debate about the origins of Covid-19 and the raccoon dog guy won. It looks like they got tangled up in factoids leaking out of China.

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