crazy4lsu

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I wonder how accurate that Russian dead number is.

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Decently accurate to get a baseline. Ukrainian drone units publish videos of deaths, and before the heavy drone phase of the war, materiel was counted only from verified footage or photographs. The Russia death toll, compiled by Mediazona, which is a Russian outlet, uses obituary data primarily, which is the same method that the website UA losses uses, to provide baseline estimates. The numbers of casualties some Ukrainian units post with proof boggles the mind, with one unit posting around 3500 videos from October 2025 alone.

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Exactly a 0% chance it would look like that. There’s not even a need for it and even if we did just conduct a massive ground invasion it wouldn’t look like that.

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It would actually look like a combination of the Iraq and Afghanistan insurgencies, in a landmass that is around 560,000 km squared bigger than either, more mountainous, with an officer class which has cut its teeth during asymmetric operations. As in, they were the group heavily involved in the Iraqi insurgency, as well as the fight against ISIS.

This is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Whomever has the Iranian plateau has long been a land power in West Asia. The ease with which they can project power to proxies speaks to that fact. It's just a dilemma caused by geopolitical advantages which are the result of the geography itself. We are no closer to any cogent objectives than we were in February.

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Wouldn't improper handling of samples be a leak?

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It would depend on lots of factors, from where the original specimens were collected to who was doing the collecting. Such an origin would negate the 'intentional' lab leak idea.

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In any case, like I posted earlier - I don't think it was malicious but the beginning of the Covid shitshow was likely a leak from the Wuhan lab.

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Yes, the Chinese acted to cover their own arse.

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You asked me to dox people by giving you their name and address. What kind of doctor do you claim to be?

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I'm in internal medicine. And again, I wasn't the one who claimed these people had cures. You did. You are deflecting because the claim is suspect, and no doubt you'll hide behind some other nonsense.

I'm not claiming I have the cure for cancer doofus.

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.and you're NOT a physician until you pass the United States Medical Licensing exam.

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Passing Step 1 and Step 2 of the USMLE are among the minimum qualifications to graduate from medical school, with Step 3 taken during intern year, but it isn't the hardest test. He's a doctor by definition. You can quibble about whether he should use the word 'physician' but he's absolutely a doctor.

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The fact of the matter is that I expect a doctor to be able to treat me within the realm of whatever specialty his is.

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Your personal definition does not make a difference in this case. He is a doctor because he had an MD. Is he a practicing physician? To my knowledge, no. But yes, he is a doctor.

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What indications at the molecular level would there be if someone leaked the virus from the lab on purpose?

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This would not be the first question I would ask in this situation, because what we first need to ascertain if they have the ability to synthesize the virus itself. While a BSL-4 lab should have this ability, the Wuhan lab was relatively new, and you should be able to trace the equipment required to synthesize a reverse genetics system for the virus. The lab there was fully opened in 2018, and the last version of Methods in Molecular Biology to have a chapter on reverse genetics for avian coronavirus was published in 2017, and to follow those directions, you need very specific material. You could just focus on the buffers and mediums you need, such as OPTIMEM 1 with Glutamax-1, and do the work to see if indeed the lab there had those orders and you can do that with every needed material. There is a small possibility that the lab came up with some novel way of synthesizing genetic material, but that remains very remote. From there you can look for traces of plasmid vectors or other reverse genetics systems. Secondly, the furin cleavage site is an odd choice if the leak of the specimen was purposeful and intentional. Thirdly, in order to have a lab origin solely, you would need to amplify the genetic material through a process called serial passaging in order to recover high-titer stocks from samples. This process would likely delete the furin cleavage site, which would be evidence for laboratory handling. You would also see any evidence of animal adaptation in laboratory animal models, such as mice, but I don't believe we have that sort of evidence as of yet. We could also see evidence such as novel restriction sites, difference in DNA base content, differences in gene organization, selection markers, and foreign nonviral sequences. Lastly, from some recent research I read, I believe the first cases were clustered around the wet markets in Wuhan, which I believe are 9 miles from the Wuhan Institute.

There are a lot of arguments you can develop about why this isn't a man-made virus, and the zoonotic spillover event needs something like a wet market in order for the spillover to occur. That said, each time I look at the evidence, I vacillate between thinking it is a possible lab leak due to improper handling of samples, which could be possible given the relative newness of the lab, which would be an accidental situation that isn't necessarily a leak. That situation suggests that the virus existed in the population well before the pandemic began, and the process of serial passaging made it more robust relative to other Sars viruses. The other situation I think about looking at the evidence is indeed the wet market spillover, which is a danger any time you have consistent human and dead animal interaction. I also think that some of China's moves in the aftermath were to protect the profitability of the wet markets themselves, but I have to investigate that notion further.

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You claimed nobody has it and you are obviously wrong. I doubt I am alone.

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Again, there does not exist this subset in a population that has 0 problems. Regardless of what you think.

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Occasionally? It's constantly happening. What about the people who are having organs harvested while still alive? There is an entire abortion industry.

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Do you think the entire medical apparatus has to answer for things that are already illegal?

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It was last updated in 2021 so that the jab could be included in it.

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I mean, that is what you want to believe.

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You claimed 0 previously. And the rate you are talking about would be the rate admitted to/acknowledged.

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What? I claimed 0 what? You need to reread I wrote.

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All for a virus 99% of the people survived from.

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The standard for a pathogen with pandemic potential is 0.1% CFR. The untreated CFR for COVID is much higher, especially at older age cohorts.

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Do you know what causes it then? There is certainly correlation, and while correlation doesn't imply causation it definitely requires another look.

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There is no correlation.

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I'd bet my left nut the cause is medical related.

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The likelihood is that it comes from you and your genes than it does from something exogenous.

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This just seems like an odd deflection to try and make it political to excuse the medical industry for what they did. I'm pretty sure the same response would have happened regardless of who was elected, considering politicians are owned by the same people.

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No, it is a direct response to your quip about accountability. You can't follow an argument to save your life, can you?

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Well that oil would have to get past the US Navy before that....they want some come and get some....

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Yes, this has the chance of breaking out into a larger conflict, to the detriment of everyone.