Jerry writes from the Far North: “internet is terrible and I may not be able to post travelogues (or anything else) in the next few days”. You have been warned!
Meanwhile, in Dobrzyn, Hili is being keeping an eye on parking habits:
Hili: Tell Mariusz that Julia’s car should be parked properly.
Me: I agree, this car is parked in a very irritating way.
In Polish:
Hili: Powiedz Mariuszowi, że samochód Julii ma być porządnie zaparkowany.
Ja: Zgadzam się, zaparkował ten samochód w irytujący sposób.
Just keep doing your best…it is much appreciated! Maybe Elon will read this morning and launch a dedicated Starlink for your ship.
New characters and childrens’ toys at the farmhouse with Hili: the boarders ? Is Mariusz husband of Paulina? Her child? Are they grandchildren?
Yes, Paulina and Mairusz live upstairs and are the staff of Hili as well as their young daughter Julia. Julia is about two, I believe.
New article on Covid origins from an epidemiologist in Australia. Very good summary of the various origin possibilities and their probability in the opinion of the author:
https://gidmk.substack.com/p/pandemic-revisionism-part-one-covid
Many good comments to the article. One comment linked to another article (I haven’t read it yet but it looks good):
https://www.protagonist-science.com/p/natures-neglected-gof-laboratory
Thank you for these links. Like Roswell and faked moon landings, some of this stuff just will not die. I am at least subject matter expert adjacent regarding those events as a retired aerospace research engineer of forty years experience. Hopefully these articles will help reasoning people without expertise in virology or epidemiology (like me) in their evaluations of Sars Cov 2 data.
I am putting these in my large collection of stuff about the origins of Covid. In there I see reiterations of key details, like the extensive release of the lab’s genomic studies not long before the outbreak — sans a precursor for this particular virus.
For anyone else, there is this other online discussion about the issue over on Peaceful Science: https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/discussing-the-lab-leak-claim-with-jon-perry/17260/71 which, among MANY other things, repeats that point. That other lab leaks happened — yes but those were quite different. Not at all the same. That the lab was looking at lots of virus samples. Yes, but those are tiny samples and mainly dead samples. And so on. Plus there is drama, and so it’s a good read.
I don’t see how anyone of reasonable and open mind can be persuaded by notions of a lab leak once they spend maybe 30 min. reading about these things.
Very interesting.
Other news: Google co-founder denounces UN as transparently antisemetic.