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Swine flu originated in Mexico,
2009 swine flu pandemic originated in Mexico, researchers discover

I stand corrected. I meant to say the Spanish Flu could have originated in the USA.
See how easy it is to admit you’re wrong, think trump will ever learn that? Of course not.

 

[PoppaJ]

Swine flu originated in Mexico,
2009 swine flu pandemic originated in Mexico, researchers discover

Worldwide flu outbreak killed 45,000 American Soldiers during World War I

But many medical historians say it's likely the virus launched itself onto the world from Haskell County, Kansas, and the United States Army helped move it along to become a worldwide killer.

In January and February 1918, according to the 2005 book "The Great Influenza," local physician Loring Miner found people in the sparsely populated county -- 1,720 people occupying 578 square miles - were coming down with a particularly violent strain of flu. Strong, healthy people died.

 

[Leader of the Banned]

I think “concern for humanity” is a stretch. I think concern for re-election is what motivates everything he does.

True, he pretends to care just enough, and it's fleeting.

 

[PoppaJ]

trump

The coronavirus "snuck up on us,” adding that it is “a very unforeseen thing.”

 

[PoppaJ]

Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness — ProPublica

Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 29 separate transactions.

 

[Lake View Too]

Senator Dumped Up to $1.6 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness — ProPublica

Soon after he offered public assurances that the government was ready to battle the coronavirus, the powerful chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Richard Burr, sold off a significant percentage of his stocks, unloading between $582,029 and $1.56 million of his holdings on Feb. 13 in 29 separate transactions.

I having a hard time understanding how sick these people (Republican leaders) are. I have no qualms with the average everyday old style Republican, but how can you just keep condoning the insanity that spews forth from YOUR party? You need to wake up from your daze, get a backbone, and vote for someone who isn't a slimebag.

 

[PoppaJ]

I having a hard time understanding how sick these people (Republican leaders) are. I have no qualms with the average everyday old style Republican, but how can you just keep condoning the insanity that spews forth from YOUR party? You need to wake up from your daze, get a backbone, and vote for someone who isn't a slimebag.

Right, as vette12 might ask, “what sort of decent man would do that?”

 

[PoppaJ]

Another one busted!

The Senate’s newest member,Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) sold off seven figures worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks after a private, all-Senators meeting on the novel coronavirus that subsequently hammered U.S.
Between January 24 and February 14, by contrast, Loeffler reported selling stock jointly owned with her husband worth between $1,275,000 and $3,100,000, according to transaction reports filed with Senate ethics officials,” The Beast reported. “The fifteen stocks that Loeffler reported selling have lost more than a third of their value, on average, since she reported offloading them.

 

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The first coronavirus case in the U.S. and South Korea was detected on the same day. By late January, Seoul had medical companies starting to work on a diagnostic test — one was approved a week later. Today, the U.S. isn’t even close to meeting test demand https://reut.rs/3daq8mF

 

[PoppaJ]

Now Ron Johnson and Jim Inhofe busted for dumping stock.