Meanwhile, in Dobrzyn, Hili is still channeling Borges’ character Funes, but she is doing it so badly that she has forgotten she said all this on Monday
Hili: I’m trying to remember.
Me: What?
Hili: Everything.
In Polish:
Hili: Próbuję sobie przypomnieć.
Ja: Co?
Hili: Wszystko
Wow. Even WEIT has summer re-runs. But maybe some things are worth revisiting.
It might take more than 5 days to remember everything anyway. Especially when you take naps x times a day.
More on Covid origins. Debunk the Funk (Dan Wilson) summarizes the state of the evidence. He does a good job of laying out what we would expect to see if there was a lab leak vs. what we would expect to see if it was from the wet market. He also emphasizes that China cleaned out the wet market before any testing could take place. This is likely because they knew how SARS-1 started and did not want to be blamed for this one:
This was good, thx. I was afraid that it was going to go off in the other direction.
And yep, they didn’t want anything interrupting their $80B/yr wild animal trade. (I had no idea that it was that big.)
+1. But the Blessed Church of the Lab Leak will continue reading and singing from their hymnals.
Deepest chemical detail in this video beyond my increasingly plaque-filling leetle gray cells, but I trust Hempenstein…and the TWiV boys and girls…and Quamman’s Spillover was a required reading in a freshman emerging infectious disease class I audited several years ago. I guess if I add that when I hear hooves, I think horses, not zebras, the same people who gave us the WMD hypothesis will accuse me of simple confirmation bias.
I am looking forward to seeing Hili in The Garden of Forking Paths.
Or wandering in the Library of Babel. Shout out for the Borges reference!
I saw her in the Aleph.
I’m happy to see Hili even if she says it again.
Agree! I’m always happy to see Hili, regardless of what she says.
+1