black folks at the frontlines tbhWhy is this shyt so aggressive against black people?
COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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like i said by july..most things will be back to normal
Tribaligenesis
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It's because a large proportion of black and Asian people have the sickle cell gene, which literally makes it less effective for the blood to carry oxygen. There is research to suggest that this genetic condition developed as a result of adaptation against Malaria.
DaRealness
I think very deeply
yup, that too.
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In Rare Move, U.S. Intelligence Agencies Confirm Investigating if Coronavirus Emerged From Lab Accident
Warren P. Strobel and Dustin Volz
7-8 minutes
WASHINGTON—The U.S. intelligence community publicly confirmed it is trying to determine whether the coronavirus may have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, the city where the pandemic began.
In an unusual public statement, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI, also said that U.S. intelligence agencies concur with the broad scientific consensus that “the Covid-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified.”
But ODNI, which coordinates the work of 17 U.S. spy agencies, said U.S. intelligence “will continue to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.”
U.S. intelligence agencies rarely discuss their work or conclusions publicly, and the ODNI statement marked a break from that pattern.
States balance public health and economic well-being as more lockdowns expire; U.S. intelligence agencies confirm investigating if the coronavirus escaped from a lab in Wuhan; Apple and Amazon report profits. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday has the latest on the pandemic. Photo: Matthew Hatcher/Bloomberg
President Trump said Thursday that he has seen intelligence that linked the Wuhan Institute of Virology with the origin of the virus. “Yes, I have,” he said in answer to a question at the White House about whether he has seen such intelligence. Asked to elaborate, he said: “I can’t tell you that, I’m not allowed to tell you that.”
Mr. Trump said the administration is looking closely at the issue and expressed hope that Beijing would be forthcoming about it.
The Wall Street Journal and other news organizations previously have reported that American intelligence agencies are assessing whether the virus might have escaped from a laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
No concrete evidence has emerged to support the lab theory, and the Chinese government has repeatedly denied it. Senior U.S. officials have previously acknowledged efforts to look into whether the virus may have escaped from the institute, where scientists study bat coronaviruses as part of a global effort to understand viruses that could pose danger to humans.
China’s role in the spread of the virus has figured prominently into debates within the U.S., where more than one million have been infected with more than 61,000 killed. Experts in the U.S. and elsewhere have faulted China for not sharing information about the outbreak more quickly, and Mr. Trump and his allies have often attacked Beijing when questioned about the administration’s own coronavirus response.
Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas who sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee, for months has suggested a lab accident could have led to the pandemic. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeatedly has called attention to possible involvement of the laboratory in Wuhan and insisted that China allow outside experts into the lab.
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In mid-April, Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said U.S. intelligence officials had taken a hard look at evidence regarding possible involvement by Chinese laboratories. “And I would just say at this point it’s inconclusive, although the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural. But we don’t know for certain,” he said.
Susan Miller, an ODNI spokeswoman, disputed that the investigation was prompted by a request by the White House or other parts of the administration or that it had received pressure to arrive at a specific conclusion. “We take these allegations of political pressure very seriously and have seen no such actions to date. We have seen no evidence of this,” Ms. Miller said.
Mr. Trump—asked Thursday whether he agrees with the intelligence community’s conclusion that the virus was not manmade or genetically modified—said he hadn’t seen the report on the matter. It was unclear what report Mr. Trump was referring to.
Many scientific experts who have studied the virus say it is highly unlikely that it escaped from the Wuhan lab, and that the pandemic almost certainly began as a result of humans being infected from animals. Some biosafety experts, however, have questioned the Wuhan lab’s safety procedures and have said it is possible that scientists there were studying the virus and it escaped.
Experts in virus transmission have said that the novel coronavirus could have leapt from bats to humans directly or through an intermediate mammal in a variety of ways, including contact during hunting or transportation of animals. The genetic sequence of the virus bears strong resemblance to other bat coronaviruses that have been previously detected, and experts have said there don’t appear to be signs of humans engineering modifications to the virus.
Former U.S. intelligence officials have said that definitively concluding the precise origins of the virus outbreak will be difficult, if not impossible, intelligence tradecraft alone.
To do so would require finding “a smoking gun,” said Glenn Gerstell, former general counsel of the National Security Agency. “I wouldn’t be surprised if we never end up with the actual definitive answer,” he said during an online event sponsored by George Mason University’s Hayden Center.
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WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Probes University of Texas Links to Chinese Lab Scrutinized Over Coronavirus
Kate O’Keeffe
11-13 minutes
The Education Department has asked the University of Texas System to provide documentation of its dealings with the Chinese laboratory U.S. officials are investigating as a potential source of the coronavirus pandemic.
The request for records of gifts or contracts from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and its researcher Shi Zhengli, known for her work on bats, is part of a broader department investigation into possible faulty financial disclosures of foreign money by the Texas group of universities.
The Education Department’s letter, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, also asks the UT System to share documents regarding potential ties to the ruling Chinese Communist Party and some two dozen Chinese universities and companies, including Huawei Technologies Co. and a unit of China National Petroleum Corp.
The department is also seeking documents related to any university system contracts or gifts from Eric Yuan, a U.S. citizen who is the chief executive officer of Zoom Video Communications Inc.
An official at the University of Texas System said it plans to respond to the department in a timely manner and declined to provide information about any potential links to the entities mentioned in the letter.
Huawei and CNPC didn’t respond to requests for comment. A spokesperson for Zoom said Mr. Yuan has “not given any gifts to the University of Texas.”
Neither the Wuhan lab nor Dr. Shi—dubbed “Bat Woman” by Chinese media—responded to requests for comment.
The Wuhan lab has come under scrutiny from U.S. officials who accuse Beijing of withholding information about the origins of the outbreak, which was first detected in Wuhan.
Dr. Shi and the Chinese government have said the lab isn’t the source of the pandemic. There is no concrete public evidence to confirm the theory that the outbreak resulted from an accident at the lab, which studied ways to prevent the spread of infectious diseases.
Some scientists say a lab accident remains a possibility, but the current dominant theory is that bats passed the virus to humans either directly, or more likely, through another animal.
The Education Department’s investigation into the UT System’s disclosures is part of a continuing national review begun in 2019 that the department says has prompted universities to report more than $6.5 billion in previously undisclosed foreign funding. Officials have sent letters to at least eight other schools, including Harvard and Yale Universities, who have said they are responding to the inquiries.
Universities are required to disclose to the Education Department all contracts and gifts from a foreign source that, alone or combined, are worth $250,000 or more in a calendar year. Though the statute is decades old, the department only recently began to enforce it rigorously.
The Education Department has accused schools of actively soliciting money from foreign governments, companies and nationals hostile to the U.S. One goal of the new enforcement campaign, according to department officials, is to better enable the public to see where schools get their money.
U.S. universities have defended their international collaborations and said the Education Department’s reporting requirements remain unclear. Department officials dispute that claim.
In its letter dated April 24, the department asked the chancellor of the University of Texas System to provide records related to its dealings with the Wuhan lab, citing UT’s Galveston National Laboratory’s relationship with the Chinese government-run lab.
The Education Department asked for records related to dealings between the Wuhan lab and UT’s Galveston National Laboratory, located on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch.
Photo: Kevin M. Cox/Associated Press
The letter cites a November 2018 article in Science magazine cosigned by officials at the Galveston and Wuhan labs stating: “We engaged in short- and long-term personnel exchanges focused on biosafety training, building operations and maintenance, and collaborative scientific investigations in biocontainment. We succeeded in transferring proven best practices to the new Wuhan facility.”
The magazine article, also available on the Galveston lab’s site, adds that the Wuhan and Texas labs recently signed formal cooperative agreements but that “funding for research and the logistics of exchanging specimens are challenges that we have yet to solve.”
The university system previously reported to Education Department officials a series of contracts with Chinese universities and Huawei, purportedly collectively worth nearly $13 million, according to the letter. But it questioned whether the UT schools had reported all relevant foreign gifts and contracts.
The Education Department is seeking documents related to any University of Texas System contracts or gifts from Eric Yuan, chief executive officer of Zoom, pictured in April 2019.
Photo: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News
The request for information about the American chief executive of U.S. videoconferencing firm Zoom stands out on a list of otherwise Chinese entities.
The department has said its statutory authority enables it to seek information on gifts or contracts from any entity, including a U.S. person, who could be acting as an agent of a foreign source. Department officials believe the broad statute provides the basis for many lines of inquiry at universities, according to a person familiar with the department’s thinking.
U.S. national security officials and independent cybersecurity researchers have raised concerns about Zoom and its reliance on China-based engineering, especially as more people turn to the service amid the pandemic to discuss company and government business as well as private health information.
Mr. Yuan has said the Chinese government has never asked for information on traffic from foreign users. “Zoom is no different than any other U.S. technology company with operations in China, including many of our videoconferencing peers,“ the company said in a statement. “Zoom is an American company, publicly traded on the Nasdaq, with headquarters in California and a founder and CEO who is an American citizen,” the statement said, adding that his inclusion in a letter focused on UT’s ties to China indicates the letter’s authors “did not do their homework.”
The Education Department’s scrutiny of money that could have flowed from the China-based lab to the U.S. comes after other U.S. officials criticized money that went in the opposite direction. In an April 21 letter to House and Senate leadership, members of Congress led by Sen. Martha McSally (R., Ariz.) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R., Fla.) criticized a grant by the National Institutes of Health that supported global research on coronaviruses, including at the Wuhan lab.
“We’re sure you agree that taxpayers’ money should not be sent to a dangerous Chinese state-run bio-agent laboratory that lacks any meaningful oversight from U.S. authorities,” the members wrote. “We hope to ensure that WIV will not receive federal funds in any future spending packages,” they wrote.
Less than a week later, EcoHealth Alliance Inc., a New York-based grantee working on the project with the Wuhan lab, said the NIH had terminated coronavirus research funding.
“International collaboration with countries where viruses emerge is absolutely vital to our own public health and national security here in the USA,” the group said in a statement, declining to comment further.
The NIH confirmed in a statement that the six-year, $3.4 million grant had been terminated. It said the money was distributed among both the primary awardee, EcoHealth Alliance, and sub-awardees including the Wuhan Institute of Virology, East China Normal University in Shanghai, the Institute of Pathogen Biology in Beijing, and Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.
The NIH added: “Please note, scientific research indicates that there is no evidence that suggests the virus was created in a laboratory.”
HARLEM AL
Your broad loves me.....
Sorry to hear the fam. I lost my cousin as well to this shyt.
Waterproof
Warrior Lifestyle
Well they have the most amount of cases than anywhere else in the world, so...
Oh Lord No, Not Good News
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Makavalli
Sinister is a system
so 2 of the biggest apps to emerge during this pandemic zoom and tik tok are chinese owned
Waterproof
Warrior Lifestyle
There's a few hundred men on my job site 4 different trades. 3 weeks ago a Man reported his wife had the Coronavirus. No telling how long she had it, the odds should be high right? There should be men at this site sick with the Coronavirus right? Construction is one of the most dirtiest filthiest work environment to work in its really Germ infested
Not one person on the site is sick. Today everybody had their temperature taken before they could step on the site.
See I'm 43 255 pound Black Man Currently Train in Brazilian Jiujitsu, trained in Boxing, Muay Thai, Kenpo Karate, Judo and Wrestling. Played High School Football and lil College Football. Also a Power Lifter/Power Builder. Train in the Gym 5x a week and Jiu-Jitsu 3x a week.
I have a healthy diet eat no Pork or any food that goes against God's Dietary Law
For my immune system I take Garlic, Vitamin C, Glutamine, Apple Cider Vinger, Ginseng, Multi Vitamins and Black Seed Oil.
I've been out running 4 miles everyday at the lake, Drink Beer with my friends at the park, go to stores without a Mask and Gloves since the Lock down and I'm out exposing my body to different things to continuing to build up my immune system while y'all asses are inside and weakening your immune system
And I'm blessed. See this virus is real but it's taking out the weak and that's the God honest truth.
Not one person on the site is sick. Today everybody had their temperature taken before they could step on the site.
See I'm 43 255 pound Black Man Currently Train in Brazilian Jiujitsu, trained in Boxing, Muay Thai, Kenpo Karate, Judo and Wrestling. Played High School Football and lil College Football. Also a Power Lifter/Power Builder. Train in the Gym 5x a week and Jiu-Jitsu 3x a week.
I have a healthy diet eat no Pork or any food that goes against God's Dietary Law
For my immune system I take Garlic, Vitamin C, Glutamine, Apple Cider Vinger, Ginseng, Multi Vitamins and Black Seed Oil.
I've been out running 4 miles everyday at the lake, Drink Beer with my friends at the park, go to stores without a Mask and Gloves since the Lock down and I'm out exposing my body to different things to continuing to build up my immune system while y'all asses are inside and weakening your immune system
And I'm blessed. See this virus is real but it's taking out the weak and that's the God honest truth.
Relax man
