Coronavirus Week 83B: New fears in China and more

Xi Jinping has NOT "crushed COVID" if Chinese residents are being encouraged to stock up on bottled water and other staples just in case there's another COVID lockdown.

Zhang Zhan, a Chinese journalist who reported on the truth of Xi Jinping Thought's early response to COVID was convicted and imprisoned in December. She's now on a hunger strike and reportedly close to death, even with forced feedings.  

Your questions on Biden's vaccine OR regular testing mandate answered here. Don't forget that that mandate is an either-or, contra COVID obstructionists of both left and right.

COVID will eventually become endemic. But when? And, more importantly, with breakthrough infections and plateauing vaccination rates, how do we get there? How do we hasten getting there? The Atlantic discusses the issues.

In my contribution to this week's Texas Progressives roundup, I looked at the latest claims of a lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

I'll bet Donald Trump wishes he had thought of this as a way to gut the Deep State. Thousands of intelligence agents are reportedly threatening to quit over Biden's vaccine mandate. Good! Let them quit! The NSA will be less able to unlawfully spy on America. The CIA will be less able to lie us into wars. Besides, it's needed. The link reports that some intelligence agencies were at no more than 80 percent vaccinated, and a few smaller ones at just 60 percent. That fact alone casts doubt on their "intelligence." The story goes on to note that Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) says that Team Biden should give more religious and other exemptions. Wrong, starting from the fact that all major world religions, and all major religious groups within US Christianity, including Stewart's Planet Kolob Mormons, support vaccination.

The Biden Admin has cancelled a vax-manufacture contract with Emergent BioSolutions. Good.