Two-year probe led by Republicans faults agencies for pandemic response, as Democrats on panel challenge final report’s findings on SARS-CoV-2’s origin

  • originalucifer
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    ha, they ignored all findings and their conclusions are identical to their original suppositions still with no evidence.

    fucking waste of taxpayers time and money… and honestly the air they breathe.

    these are the worst kinds of humans.

    • @NatakuNox
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      And it really doesn’t matter where it came from. Doesn’t change the fact that our government left us to die and corporations swooped in to scavenge our remains.

      Every super power is studying dangerous diseases either for science or for weapons. Regardless to what they say is happening because our leaders have failed us.

  • @Bsher8365
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    My own conclusions as a US citizen:

    • Stay up to date on your personal vaccines
    • Visit a travel vaccine clinic for “non-routine” vaccines currently recommended for travel to Asia, Africa, and Latin America
    • Have some N95 masks
    • Don’t depend on the US government to keep you safe or heathy - you are on your own now

    EDIT: Received some messages asking which vaccines to get: if I had to prioritize one to start with, I would get the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine first (one adult booster is recommended)

    • @horse_battery_staple
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      Healthcare in this country is an abusive relationship. We need to nationalize the hospitals and disband health insurance companies and expand medicaire/medicaid/any single payer system for 100% of Americans.

      You want private healthcare? You pay the going rate just like anything else. It’s already a two tiered system. We could at least pay less and have it regulated with oversight.

      I’m not naive, this will never happen in the current political landscape until we have fewer healthcare CEOs

      Edit: I’m agnostic as to the method we get to single payer tax funded insurance but we all as Americans need to band together on this.

      • @astanix
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        Stop pushing medicaire as the answer. Medicaid is far superior and is what should be given to all.

    • @Rapidcreek
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      Crap. Have to make an appointment. Had mumps, and maybe measles but that doesn’t mean I can’t get them again.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    Take this report with the biggest grain of salt you can find.

    Key points:

    • The Republican-led Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic…
    • The committee’s 520-page report, released on 2 December, offers no new direct evidence of a lab leak
    • The Republicans’ report, led by committee chair Representative Brad Wenstrup (R–OH), extended far beyond the origin controversy:
      • The World Health Organization “caved” to the Chinese Communist Party and allowed it to conceal the severity of the pandemic.
      • Masking and vaccine mandates, school closures, and lockdowns were of questionable value, and U.S. public health officials put forth conflicting, opaque messaging on those issues and more
      • Operation Warp Speed, launched by then-President Donald Trump to develop COVID-19 vaccines in record time, was a success and a model for future pandemics. But the report also criticized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for pressuring its senior scientists to accelerate full approval of one of the vaccines.

    Edit: I just realized the parts I bolded can be combined into a fairly accurate summary:

    “The Republican-led Select Subcommitee offers no new direct evidence of a lab leak [and] extended far beyond the origin controversy”

  • Optional
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    The committee’s 520-page report, released on 2 December, offers no new direct evidence of a lab leak, but summarizes a circumstantial case, including that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) used NIAID money to conduct “gain-of-function” studies that modified distantly related coronaviruses.

    It’s a shame, MAGAts have to destroy a valid scientific communications path for everyone.

  • masterofn001
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    Here’s my 520 page report:

    Page 1: the Republican party is the same as the Nazi party.

    Pages 2-520 intentionally left blank because there’s nothing left to say.

  • Rhaedas
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    If… sorry, I mean WHEN this is used as a benchmark for future pandemics, we’re going to really be in trouble. I love how there was no mention of why initial findings and spread wasn’t controlled very well compared to past outbreaks of other diseases thanks to cuts by President Trump to a pandemic early warning program (Predict) in 2018 which finally ceased three months before the COVID news. Why would he cut such an effective tool, one that was initiated by a Republican (G.W. Bush). Oh, right…it was actually started in 2009 by Obama, so yet another vengeful move with no regard to why things exist.

  • @eran_morad
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    Suck my dick.

    I don’t give a fuck what a bunch of politicians think. I have not studied the problem in detail, but I will make my own determination upon examining genetic evidence. Bunch of worthless assclowns.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      Since I’m not a medical professional, I’ll listen to medical professionals.

      • @davidagain
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        Hopefully you’d listen to medical professionals above this Republican political nonsense.

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          I do. Not holding my breath for most of America.

  • @SupraMario
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    Minus all their other conspiracy bullshit the repubs present… I was under the impression that this was more or less from the lab in wuhan? Is this not the case anymore?

      • @SupraMario
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        Ah ok, wet markets were the other thing I remember hearing.

        I love how I was downvoted for asking a question lol the fuck lemmy.

        • @CharlesDarwin
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          Well, sometimes people use the “just asking questions” gambit and it is completely in bad faith.

          • @SupraMario
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            That’s fair, but I was generally curious. I followed the COVID sub and the HCA sub and for some reason thought I remembered the lab leak being a probable explanation.

            • @OccamsRazer
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              It is a probable explanation and I’m not sure why it’s controversial.