@anarchademic @agreenberg

And, by extension, the biodefence budget.

CISA is also now in charge of detecting a bioterror attack. Half the staff is furloughed and they have an Acting Deputy as head. 🚨🚨🚨🚨

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/5242861-threats-homeland-security-weapons-mass-destruction/

@pluralistic

Much of what people don't get about AI (or crypto mining or housing) stems the misconception that The Bank in our monopoly is a fair a neutral player following all the rules.

Using energy and creating scarcity is the point when what The Bank controls is collateralized energy.

Why to people keep calling them the "Epstein Files" if he was just the fixer?

@falcennial

The antivaccinationist movement has a history in the 1930s (w/smallpox). Their same arguments began to appear around 1998 when the US began to take the threat of a #smallpox bio-terror attack seriously enough to start building a 300M dose vaccine stockpile.

The movement is not organic; it's not about measles vaccines. And what people do because of mistaken beliefs can absolutely affect everyone.

Smallpox has an R of ~6, a CFR of 30-100%, and effectively no one is immunized.

@anneapplebaum

The flu almost disappeared in 2020 when everyone started wearing masks.

What virus could make COVID end?

Airborne transmission? and something we have a vaccine for, but are naive about?