The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Bird Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest LLELAND MAXWELL 2020 could be the “year one” of a new era. 2019 would become 1 BC (Before COVID): the year when a redacted pathogen leaked out of Fort Detrick, followed by a summertime outbreak of pneumonia shamelessly “associated” with vaporizers, which peaked during a September jamboree when Bill Gates loaded up on BionTech stock, the Federal Reserve launched emergency liquidity for banks, the CDC recalled its epidemiologist from Beijing, and House democrats launched a toothless impeachment against Donald Trump. What a gay and innocent time it was. Me and mine looked at our vape pens between coughing fits and wondered, is this shit really going to put us on ventilators and kill us? They were simpler days. Dude, you must have vaped too much Vitamin E Acetate. It definitely has nothing to do with the failure of USAMRIID’s new waste decontamination system. We at the CDC recommend that you stick to your gravity bong. Now it’s 2024, or 5 CE (COVID Era

  What Cow’s Milk tells us about PCR testing The double standards of testing CARL HENEGHAN The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  found  297 PCR-positive dairy product samples for H5N1 avian flu, including cottage cheese and sour cream. Now, in covid times, one can imagine the headlines: cows' milk is a danger to human health as it transmits bird flu; it's time to quarantine all cows. Had the modellers been involved, we might have seen a call for a massive cull of bovines with screeches to stockpile prophylactic antivirals for millions - what happened in 2005. However, this story has yet to hit the deadlines. Why?  The agency tested the sample for viable replicating viruses using egg inoculation and found all were negative. Tests on  96 PCR-positive retail milk samples were negative. They then tested 201 more PCR-positive dairy product samples, including cottage cheese and sour cream. All were negative for viable virus. The World Health Organization hastily put together a  web