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Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Covid Lab Leak Theory
« Last post by Primemuscle on Today at 08:15:26 PM »
I cut and pasted the link.  It originated here: https://zenodo.org/records/4477081#.YBd8-i1h3T8

Thanks for doing this. I have now read it did a little research on Dr. Steven Quay.

Dr. Quay has been a prominent advocate for the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak hypothesis, since 2020, about year after the first known case.

Dr. Quay’s conclusions are highly controversial and largely rejected by mainstream evolutionary virologists.

Dr. Quay is not a professional virologist.

Most established evolutionary biologists and virologists dispute his findings.

Steven Quay said in his opening remarks to members of the subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis, “In natural zoonoses the animal is in nature, a cave, a farm, or a market. The infected human comes in contact with that animal.
 
For lab-acquired zoonoses the animal is in a laboratory, or in cells from an animal in a petri dish and the human works in the lab.”  So, in effect he is acknowledging zoonoses, just not that it also it could have happened outside the lab.

That the earliest known patients were infected with the "earliest virus" is debatable. Peer-reviewed genomic studies imply that the earliest known cases started from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market.

Most likely where and how the virus started is neither absolutely provable. However, the first cases were confirmed to be infected with SARS-CoV-2 which is the coronavirus strain which causes the infectious disease COVID-19 responsible for the global pandemic.

I will say that in my opinion, after reading Dr. Quay’s testimony to the subcommittee, some of what he reported is fairly compelling. Not that my opinion is worth much since I am not an expert on COVID, how, or where it started.
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Gossip & Opinions / Re: The battle for 515kg
« Last post by Van_Bilderass on Today at 08:14:29 PM »
Everyone knows sumo doesn't count.

Sumo is real to me dammit!

To me, Colton is hard to comprehend, these loads would have sounded impossible some years back. You factor in his weight, he isn't a total lard ass like the other all time record breakers (nothing against strong lards asses... ok maybe a little), and he is like 24 if I'm not mistaken. The major potential problem he faces is injuries. I almost can't watch his squats out of fear, I expect the sound of a shotgun blast at any time and him collapsing to the floor. At least I've seen those loops on the monolift when he squats.

I've memorized a lot of imperial/metric conversions such as 315, 405, 500, 600lbs to kilo and so on :D
What's funny is American lifters think kilo plates are heavier than lbs plates, even when the load is the same between the two. When they lift with kilo plates they are always sure to mention it :D Our "plates" are 20kg but US 45 plates are 20.4kg so a "plate" IS heavier in the US.

A while back some US lifter forgot the competition he was at used kilo plates. So he called his bench thinking lbs. The load was roughly twice what he wanted. Amazingly no one caught it, apparently he didn't look at the plates. The weight crashed on his chest and he broke his arms. WTF! :D
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Gossip & Opinions / Re: Eggs and More Eggs
« Last post by MCWAY on Today at 07:47:54 PM »
Thank you for explaining the logistics, I couldn't see how they were only there overnight or a day or so, now I understand.

I give you hardcore props for a dozen raw a day!

I did what I had to do. The secret, that ain't so secret, to getting big is eating more food. Plus, I was on a budget. Eggs and powdered milk were the most economical. But, boiling them sucked; scrambling them was fine (if you wolfed them down in 30 seconds; otherwise, they tasted like rubber).

Greg Zulak, of MuscleMag International fame from days of yore, said it best: "It's way easier to bring 1000 calories and 100 grams of protein than it is to eat them."

Mixed with milk and some flavoring (e.g. Nestle Quik), drinking a dozen eggs is fairly easy, as long as you divide the mix into two or three batches.
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Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Covid Lab Leak Theory
« Last post by chaos on Today at 07:37:18 PM »
DOE and FBI say lab leak
There's so much info out there pointing to an engineered virus that it's pretty telling that certain people will discredit the idea with no evidence to support their opinion.
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Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Covid Lab Leak Theory
« Last post by Grape Ape on Today at 07:33:04 PM »
DOE and FBI say lab leak
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Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Covid Lab Leak Theory
« Last post by chaos on Today at 07:24:33 PM »
I didn't make any arguments.  And, unsurprisingly, you don't understand the point about the jump from animals to humans.  It's not that the jump doesn't happen.  It's that it takes numerous iterations of this jump before it becomes lethal.  Covid skipped that process.  I learned that by listening to epidemiologists.  They know their stuff.  You don't. 

I don't expect you to understand the HIV info.  Were you even alive during that period?  Do you know what Fauci was telling the public?  These are rhetorical questions, because you repeatedly demonstrate that what you know about subjects being discussed here can fit in a thimble.   
Some people just don't understand the evolution of a man made and leaked virus.
Some men, you just can't reach.

So you get what we had here last week -- which is the way he wants it.

Well, he gets it.
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Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: The 2026 Midterm Election
« Last post by chaos on Today at 07:17:53 PM »
We sure know how to pick them.  I'm not a big Susan Collins fan, but I sure hope voters don't put this dirtbag in the Senate.

WATCH: Platner doesn't apologize to Purple Heart recipient, voters when confronted on post mocking soldier
Platner cited his 4 infantry tours and called any suggestion he disrespects veterans 'slanderous and offensive'
By Andrew Mark Miller Fox News
Published May 24, 2026
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-platner-doesnt-apologize-purple-heart-recipient-voters-when-confronted-post-mocking-soldier
This is the guy with the SS Death Head tattooed on his chest right and he supposedly didn't know what it meant? LOL
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Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Is Liberalism a Mental Disorder?
« Last post by chaos on Today at 07:15:01 PM »
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok

The House voted 217-198 to PASS a bill banning schools from secretly changing a child's gender, pronouns, or name at school without parental consent.

198 Democrats voted AGAINST it.

Democrats want to secretly trans your kids.



https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/2058977309252530563
They want your kids mentally unstable, that's the only way they can get their future voter base.
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Bruh.  He or some other crackpot Democrat who want boys/men in girls/women's spaces is likely going to be your next governor.   :-\
Not if Bianco can help it!!!
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Politics and Political Issues Board / Re: Covid Lab Leak Theory
« Last post by Dos Equis on Today at 07:02:17 PM »
Did you try this link before you posted it?

Fixed.
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