Anonymous ID: 85aef2 April 27, 2020, 12:44 a.m. No.8934809   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4937 >>4987 >>5135 >>5229

Using COVID as cover to promote unethical experiments

by Grazie Pozo Christie

April 27, 2020 01:06 AM

 

"Americans are living through something like a slow-motion earthquake. It will be some time before we emerge from the rubble and can adequately calculate the damage to our nationโ€™s health, economy, and social fabric. In the meantime, average citizens are busy trying to figure out how best to protect our families. Some Democratic politicians, however, are exploiting the crisis, trying to reverse a recent ban on tax-funded experiments using the flesh of aborted fetuses. Their claim: Developing a vaccine against COVID-19 depends on this type of morally-tainted research. The scientific truth? Ethical experimental alternatives abound, including the use of monkey cells, adult human cells and chicken eggs. And these alternatives work as well, if not better, than fetal tissue for the production of vaccines.

 

Modern vaccine science long ago moved beyond the need for aborted fetal tissue. Some scientific background explains why. To create a vaccine, samples of the actual virus are grown and altered to produce a weakened strain. The weakened strain is then injected into the body to produce an antibody response. This enables the body to fight off the actual disease upon exposure to the virus. To grow and alter the virus in a laboratory, researchers use a cell culture. Yes, those cells can come from aborted human babies, but they can also from monkey- chicken- and rabbit-embryos โ€“ and even from adult humans.

 

Of the more than 70 vaccines routinely administered in the United States, none โ€“ not one โ€“ is made using the cells of freshly aborted babies. The manufacturers of a handful of vaccines use the cells of healthy babies aborted in the 1960โ€™s as culture medium, but only because those companies have not cared to spend the money and time needed to switch to an ethical alternative."

 

moar:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/using-covid-as-cover-to-promote-unethical-experiments

nuh uh really?

Anonymous ID: 85aef2 April 27, 2020, 12:48 a.m. No.8934820   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>4826 >>4987 >>5135 >>5229

"We Are Moving Into The End-Game": 27 Tankers Anchored

Off California, Hundreds Off Singapore As Oil Industry

Shuts Down

by Tyler Durden

Sun, 04/26/2020 - 20:05

 

"Back in the late fall of 2014, when Saudi Arabia broke up OPEC for the first time and unleashed a torrent of crude oil on the world despite the protests of its fellow cartel members, oil prices crashed as a result of what then seemed to be a "calculated" move by Riyadh which hoped to put US shale out of business amid a flawed gamble betting that shale breakeven prices were around $60-80. They, however, turned out to be much lower, which coupled with Saudi misreading of the willingness of junk bond investors to keep funding US shale producers, meant that despite a 3 years stretch of low oil prices, US shale emerged stronger than ever before, with the US eventually eclipsing both Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world's biggest crude oil producer.

 

Fast forward to March 2020, when Saudi Arabia doubled down in its attempt to crush shale, only to avoid angering long-time ally Donald Trump, the Crown Prince pretended that the latest flood of oil was an oil price war aimed at Moscow not Midland. And this time, unlike 2014, with the benefit of the global economic shutdown resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, the Saudis may have finally lucked out in the ongoing crusade against US oil, because as Bloomberg writes with "negative oil prices, ships dawdling at sea with unwanted cargoes, and traders getting creative about where to stash oil", the next chapter in the oil crisis is now inevitable: "great swathes of the petroleum industry are about to start shutting down."

 

As the recent OPEC summit so vividly demonstrated, the marginal price of oil is no longer determined by supply or cuts thereof (such as the recently announced agreement by OPEC+ for a 9.7mmb/d output cut), but rather by demand, or the lack thereof, which according to some estimate is as much as 36mmb/d lower, or roughly a third of the global oil market every day, as billions of people are stuck at home instead of driving, while major corporations mothball production in a world where major economies have ground to a halt."

 

moar:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/we-are-moving-end-game-27-tankers-anchored-california-hundreds-singapore-oil-industry-shuts

much pain for evil petrol overlords