I’m sad Bumblebee bombed, because the movie was truly the best Transformers film. It had better character, better visual design, better animation, better writing, etc. I think it failed for the same reason Terminator: Dark Fate did: after 5 movies of diminishing returns, people just didn’t care. Especially since in…

Parler’s just trying to cover it’s huge ass here (and I suspect they weren’t really so very rigorous at outing their own userbase), but it is a fair question. How did the FBI and police manage to ignore all the obviously impending fuckery? Did they let it go by because they were naive or on purpose? Law enforcement…

Trumpers: It’s a deadly bio-weapon!

It was predicable - and predicted - to happen under natural conditions. Here’s a 2017 paper saying to expect a pandemic: https://academic.oup.com/ilarjournal/article/58/3/343/4107390

“it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human-to-human transmission.”

one of my biggest things I hate is when people, whether scientists or laypeople, attribute intelligence to the random dice of evolution

Well do they have any RELIABLE proof that they sent those warnings to the FBI? I would need to hear confirmation from the FBI themselves before I believe that and I haven’t seen it, at least not in this article.

God I cant for the people to start crying over this.

And as I recall, it was Redfield who went along with Trump’s gutting of the pandemic preparations from the previous administration. He even removed the CDC person from the Wuhan lab in 2019 essentially crippling our early warning and cooperation agreements with China.

As a toadie of the trump administration, his opinion has no value, and in fact, should be discounted lower than an average layperson.

Were his recommendation that masks were only for health care workers and people infected with the virus founded in his expertise in virology? Because I learned that masks could make a difference when I watched M*A*S*H* as a kid.

The idea that because there was a virology lab in Wuhan, that the virus MUST have originated there, is the most disingenuous, “correlation implies causation” nonsense. Wuhan has a population of 11 million people. There is going to be a bio-research infrastructure there, that doesn’t mean that any and all illnesses in…

I can’t wait for all of the slack-jawed, maskless mouthbreathers who have spent the last year saying that the CDC is useless and doesn’t know what they’re talking about to start shouting: “WELL HOW CAN YOU QUESTION THE CDC DIRECTOR” with straight faces.

“Normally, when a pathogen goes from a zoonot to human, it takes a while for it to figure out how to become more and more efficient in human-to-human transmission.”

Why the sarcasm tag? You’re 100% correct. People are trying to act like a white guy isn’t white because he’s not the “right kind” of white (i.e. European Christian).

The shooter, of course, did not turn out to be a white guy

“Redfield was careful to couch his statement as simply an opinion but cited his long career as a virologist in justifying his belief.”

Pretty fucking irresponsible of CNN to give a platform to this guys unfounded opinion. 

I mean, he is white, just Foreigner White, not American White.

And to this I say