@maxkennerly
The JGI guys are on this platform somewhere. They work for DoE and they know virology.
I think they're probably not allowed to be raising their voices right now...

I'm also sure none of them were involved in this statement.

But hey, I wish the Fox News people well with their attempts to retrieve damages. I think we could benefit from redomiciling many overly outsourced industries.

@dnavinci @maxkennerly

I did a search for 'virology' on the JGI portal, and came up with bupkis. Your mastodon instance screams that you know something I don't, though.

The question still remains, what's the DOE doing, pontificating on covid?

@skydog
Yeah, spycraft and foreign policy arent really a bailiwyck of that department, so I'm just as shocked as anyone. Mostly I'm surprised that Granholm would allow a statement like that that turns her department into more of a lightning rod than it already was. Almost every election cycle there a major conservative voice threatening to remove the whole dept.

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@maxkennerly

@dnavinci @skydog @maxkennerly

Much of the anti-vaxxer disinformation & covid malign influence campaigns were funded by the oil industry.

It's an industry that's openly hostile to democracy. They believe that prolonging the pandemic will destabilize democracies & increase profit.

They've funded trucker blockades in Canada that cost their economy billions. They're funding the yellow vest movement in France. They're funding the Tufton Street think tanks kneecapping the UK.

They own the GOP.