This one hits a little different than it used to...
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2024
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About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
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"No worries, just let herd immunity do it's (sic) thang." - the guy in the red shirt behind the scientist in lab coat
How do you know someone used the wrong word when talking?
Idk but I upvoted just bc of that
Oh I did too
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I think they mean "it is a sic thing"
Somewhere in China, circa 2019 (Just kidding, I don't buy into that conspiracy)
Edit: Ah shit, here we go again...
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/politics/covid-lab-leak-wuhan-china-intelligence/index.html
Turns out it holds a little more weight than previously acknowledged, at least.
My key take away from the article beyond the headline:
"Two sources said that the Department of Energy assessed in the intelligence report that it had “low confidence” the Covid-19 virus accidentally escaped from a labe in Wuhan.
Intelligence agencies can make assessments with either low, medium or high confidence. A low confidence assessment generally means that the information obtained is not reliable enough or is too fragmented to make a more definitive analytic judgment or that there is not enough information available to draw a more robust conclusion."
I think they meant lab, not labe. Not sure though
a little more weight than previously acknowledged, at least
You need to take into account the political fallout for them to claim either medium or high confidence. I'm sure they were pressured or otherwise had some bias to reduce their assessment in order to preserve relations with China.
I personally find the lab leak theory more compatible with Occam's Razor than the wet market theory. I don't think there was an actual conspiracy here to release the virus intentionally though, I think it was leaked accidentally (again, Occam's Razor). That said, I haven't seen all the research, nor am I an expert at pathology, I'm merely looking at the motivations for the various parties involved and the research I have seen. Perhaps there's some compelling evidence and arguments an expert pathologist could provide to change my mind.
Well, also, India at some point in 2020, but there were monkeys involved.
Covid-84
This did not age well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_sheep_incident
U.S. Military: "Our bad, but not actually our bad"
I would be doing pranks like this for like a week before I would lose my job at the CDC if I worked there.
This is like an intrusive thought, visualised. Perhaps a good way of thinking about the far side 🤔
USSR circa. 1977.
It only needs an antimasker/antivaccine activist screaming below to be made relevant to the present.