>>7985657 (LB)
It's not what I was expecting either. But that was probably the point: it wasn't what They were expecting either.
Perhaps the Senate business that Pelosi wanted to disrupt were Senate Committee investigations. That would be the more proper way to dig into the Ukraine-aid kickbacks.
>Corona Virus cases slowing dramatically last 36 hours.
These viruses evolve to be not reproduce so vigorously that their hosts stay home due to illness and reduce their interactions with other potential hosts. For every transmission mechanism there is a sweet spot. For this transmission mechanism that sweet spot is to be like the common cold (indeed, many colds are already caused by corona viruses).
The infection rate is probably the same or increasing. But now it's not making people sick enough to send them to hospitals.
He rejects Option 1 much too quickly on the basis that the sequence "INS1378" is similar to the equivalent portion of SARS. It's the nature of viruses to swap genes when a given host is infected with two different strains at the same time. And SARS came from bats in the same part of China. It's not impossible that this new strain of bat CoV would have some bits in common with SARS.