Heap o'Links Thu 2020 Dec 31

Links and stuff

The Morning Report 2020 Dec 31
J.J. Sefton on A♠ - Best news aggregator on the web
FLU NEWS
Virus
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98 Symptoms Coronavirus Patients Say They've Had
"Long haulers" report a wide variety of painful side effects from COVID-19.
Kelly Hernandez, EatThisNotThat, Dec 11, 2020
Kinda click-baitey. As the commenter said, "Just about any ailment you can think of" could be a symptom.

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"It has been mutating since the very beginning."
Genomic epidemiology of hCoV-19
Showing 3848 of 3848 genomes sampled between Dec 2019 and Dec 2020.

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Comparing COVID Vaccines: Pfizer Vs. Moderna Vs. AstraZeneca/Oxford
Alex Berezow, PhD, ACSH, Nov 23, 2020
"Pfizer and Moderna are producing fewer but more effective (and pricier) vaccines, while AstraZeneca is making a greater number of less effective (and cheaper) vaccines."

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Employee Left Out Hundreds Of Vaccine Doses That Spoiled ‘Intentionally,’ Says Wisconsin Health System
Eric Quintanar, Daily wire, Dec 30, 2020
No mention of why the employee tried to spoil the vaccines.

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China Confiscates COVID-19 Origin Research Samples
Natalie Winters, National Pulse, Dec 30, 2020

A bat research team visiting recently managed to take samples but had them confiscated, two people familiar with the matter said. Specialists in coronaviruses have been ordered not to speak to the press. And a team of Associated Press journalists was tailed by plainclothes police in multiple cars who blocked access to roads and sites in late November.


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A Tidal Wave of Death
The 1918 Spanish flu was a killer of historic proportions.
Michael J. Totten, City Journal, Autumn 2020

In 1918 and 1919, the novel H1N1 “Spanish flu” virus killed between 50 million and 100 million people—as much as 5 percent of the world’s population—mostly within a few months, making the contemporaneous mass murder of World War I look like a bagatelle. The pandemic was… “the greatest tidal wave of death since the Black Death, perhaps in the whole of human history.”

FLU SYMPTOM: LOCKDOWN
Austin Mayor Announces New Restrictions On Restaurants; Texas AG: Try It And I’ll See You In Court
Tim Pearce, Daily Wire, Dec 30, 2020

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Catherine Austin Fitts | Full Interview | Planet Lockdown
Truth Matters - Dec 22, 2020
POLITICS

Blanco Basura on A♠
"Tomorrow we may find out what the heck this guy was talking about…"
Special Message from President Trump Nobody knows whats coming and its goes into effect January 1st
Trump Library, Rumble

"only thing i could find that relates to january 1st , this is hopium but still"
2018 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States
Issued on: March 1, 2018

LIGHTER SIDE
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A REAL Board Stretcher!... Wait, WHAT!!
Next Level Carpentry - Mar 31, 2018

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