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[Wheels]

Hats off to Gabbard and Trump for releasing this information. Hats off to Dr Malone, Dr McCullough and others who stood up to warn us about this from the beginning who were vilified and deplatformed by the mainstream media and social media. We were lied to about COVID and the vaccine.

Many of us lost people we loved. Some of us have life altering health issues. Fauci received auto pen immunity. Peter Daszak with EcoHealth Alliance did not. There needs to be a reckoning.

Ecohttps://x.com/thackerpd/status/2065468993259860122?s=46&t=0gFIjHQtjCToFUQHTi0xKw

https://twitter.com/x/status/2065534675087479265

 

[spike.t]

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/lost-gulf-oil-exports-far-smaller-than-thought-traders-shippers-say-2026-06-12/

 

[Brent in Az]

Hats off to Gabbard and Trump for releasing this information. Hats off to Dr Malone, Dr McCullough and others who stood up to warn us about this from the beginning who were vilified and deplatformed by the mainstream media and social media. We were lied to about COVID and the vaccine.

Many of us lost people we loved. Some of us have life altering health issues. Fauci received auto pen immunity. Peter Daszak with EcoHealth Alliance did not. There needs to be a reckoning.

Ecohttps://x.com/thackerpd/status/2065468993259860122?s=46&t=0gFIjHQtjCToFUQHTi0xKw

https://twitter.com/x/status/2065534675087479265

I'm normally a pretty strong minded and stubborn individual, but I bought into the Vaccine hype and took the shot.
Not one of my finest moments, and I regret my decision. I don't know if it just because I'm getting older, but ailments started happening after that shot, and I'll never know what the true causes are?
There was no way in hell I would follow up with a booster shot.

Anyone responsible for bioengineering things like that in labs should certainly be held responsible, but I won't hold my breath over anything happening.
There is no doubt a reason why Fauci received a pardon.

 

[Red Leg]

Hats off to Gabbard and Trump for releasing this information. Hats off to Dr Malone, Dr McCullough and others who stood up to warn us about this from the beginning who were vilified and deplatformed by the mainstream media and social media. We were lied to about COVID and the vaccine.

Many of us lost people we loved. Some of us have life altering health issues. Fauci received auto pen immunity. Peter Daszak with EcoHealth Alliance did not. There needs to be a reckoning.

Ecohttps://x.com/thackerpd/status/2065468993259860122?s=46&t=0gFIjHQtjCToFUQHTi0xKw

https://twitter.com/x/status/2065534675087479265

With all due respect, this memo was speculation by a single DARPA Fellow, a Marine Corps Major (eventually LTC) by the name of Murphy ( wonder if that is Freudian) forwarded to the DARPA Inspector General. It is not a DARPA report. It was originally leaked by Veritas in 2022. It represents the pure speculation of a single Marine Corps officer with no apparent technical credentials on subject matter like viruses, vaccines, treatment or gain of function research.

I frankly tend to believe that Covid did indeed originate in the Wuhan lab from which it escaped. But this document offers only speculation by someone with credentials no better than half the people on this forum, and considerably less than some.

 

[Brent in Az]

Yeah....., as if Iran will abide by any agreement.

 

[Wheels]

With all due respect, this memo was speculation by a single DARPA Fellow, a Marine Corps Major (eventually LTC) by the name of Murphy ( wonder if that is Freudian) forwarded to the DARPA Inspector General. It is not a DARPA report. It was originally leaked by Veritas in 2022. It represents the pure speculation of a single Marine Corps officer with no apparent technical credentials on subject matter like viruses, vaccines, treatment or gain of function research.

I frankly tend to believe that Covid did indeed originate in the Wuhan lab from which it escaped. But this document offers only speculation by someone with credentials no better than half the people on this forum, and considerably less than some.

Fair point. Where I see this as different it is released from DNI not a Veratas FOIA. The government is acknowledging the information and trying to be transparent.

Quite a bit of information came out around 2022 regarding Fauci, Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, University of North Carolina, Wuhan Lab stretching back a decade. This is just one more piece of information forming a large puzzle that the government started acknowledging yesterday. Hopefully there will be more information, investigations and media acknowledgment regarding the details forthcoming.

 

[Wheels]

Just to brag a bit. I was actually a trillionaire before Musk.

 

[Red Leg]

Fair point. Where I see this as different it is released from DNI not a Veratas FOIA. The government is acknowledging the information and trying to be transparent.

Quite a bit of information came out around 2022 regarding Fauci, Peter Daszak, EcoHealth Alliance, University of North Carolina, Wuhan Lab stretching back a decade. This is just one more piece of information forming a large puzzle that the government started acknowledging yesterday. Hopefully there will be more information, investigations and media acknowledgment regarding the details forthcoming.

I have no idea what Gabbard intended or believes, but the only information that the government is acknowledging by this release is confirmation that the allegation or theory was preposed in this memo to the DARPA IG by a Marine O-4 temporarily assigned to the agency as a Fellow.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

With all due respect, this memo was speculation by a single DARPA Fellow, a Marine Corps Major (eventually LTC) by the name of Murphy ( wonder if that is Freudian) forwarded to the DARPA Inspector General. It is not a DARPA report. It was originally leaked by Veritas in 2022. It represents the pure speculation of a single Marine Corps officer with no apparent technical credentials on subject matter like viruses, vaccines, treatment or gain of function research.

I frankly tend to believe that Covid did indeed originate in the Wuhan lab from which it escaped. But this document offers only speculation by someone with credentials no better than half the people on this forum, and considerably less than some.

Yep. Fake news. I think if we could do a tally, the incidents of conservative misinformation over the last twenty years outnumbers liberal baloney ten to one. Don't get me wrong, I have no use for political misinformation, no matter the source. But the stuff emanating from Trump's administrations ... some real doozies. Like the "algorithm" proof of the "stolen" election (ask Trump for a definition of algorithm and get ready to laugh) or his ending eight world conflicts in less than a year (that whopper is actually now immortalized on a bronze plaque Trump just riveted to the wall on the West Wing walkway).

 

[Corey0372]

 

[Tanks]

Private healthcare is rationed ... to the wealthy. Oh wait ... that would be you.
...

When I decided to get a hip replacement I went to the head of Orthopedics at USC Keck Center as I had PPO insurance. He saw my X-rays, said I had no cartilage left and scheduled surgery 10 days later after obligatory EKGs, blood tests etc..

He had to do a lot of clean-up, according to him, so surgery took 8 hours. Total bill was $127K, I paid $1,500 out of pocket and insurance picked up the rest. Physical therapy after 25 sessions was more expensive as that I paid out of pocket as I wanted more therapy than that was covered. As far of aftercare, I also had a nurse come to my house every other day, test my blood, call it in to the doctor who then determined the dosage of my anti-clotting medicine. All included in the cost.

Any one of my employees from an EA to technician to an engineer etc. could have had the same surgery with similar out of pocket. No one needs to be wealthy. BTW, I pay 100% of insurance premiums for everyone. Now, if you choose Obamacare with its multitude of restrictions, it is on you.

I do beep at metal detectors.

 

[Brent in Az]

When I decided to get a hip replacement I went to the head of Orthopedics at USC Keck Center as I had PPO insurance. He saw my X-rays, said I had no cartilage left and scheduled surgery 10 days later after obligatory EKGs, blood tests etc..

He had to do a lot of clean-up, according to him, so surgery took 8 hours. Total bill was $127K, I paid $1,500 out of pocket and insurance picked up the rest. Physical therapy after 25 sessions was more expensive as that I paid out of pocket as I wanted more therapy than that was covered. As far of aftercare, I also had a nurse come to my house every other day, test my blood, call it in to the doctor who then determined the dosage of my anti-clotting medicine. All included in the cost.

Any one of my employees from an EA to technician to an engineer etc. could have had the same surgery with similar out of pocket. No one needs to be wealthy. BTW, I pay 100% of insurance premiums for everyone. Now, if you choose Obamacare with its multitude of restrictions, it is on you.

I do beep at metal detectors.

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A prime example of the ridiculously overpriced healthcare costs in the U.S.A
You can get the same procedure at a world class international hospital in Thailand for $25,000 or less.

 

[Tanks]

A prime example of the ridiculously overpriced healthcare costs in the U.S.A
You can get the same procedure at a world class international hospital in Thailand for $25,000 or less.

If you trust them. Also, $1,500 trumps $25K. I don't think Anthem covers Thailand. Post surgery care would have to be done here, so that would also cost a lot. How was your surgery at Thailand?

Some things I would trust overseas hospitals. I will be doing a complete check up and tests later on this year overseas. Total cost will be $4K - $5K, here it would be a lot more.

 

[Big_Easy]

Elon Musk has become the world's first trillionaire.

I guess everything truly is bigger in Texas...including the Oligarchs.

 

[Brent in Az]

If you trust them. Also, $1,500 trumps $25K. I don't think Anthem covers Thailand. Post surgery care would have to be done here, so that would also cost a lot. How was your surgery at Thailand?

Some things I would trust overseas hospitals. I will be doing a complete check up and tests later on this year overseas. Total cost will be $4K - $5K, here it would be a lot more.

The point is, U.S healthcare, big pharma, and the insurance industry, is a big scam and rip-off.

 

[Big_Easy]

In the future there will be an alternate reality people can go off into and live for a while.

It would be nice if Pocahontas and Bernie and their followers could go live in that alternate universe right now.

Where millionaires and billionaires wealth. Realized, and unrealized is confiscated. All of their property, liquid or otherwise confiscated by the treasury. Given to Bernie and Warren to spend “Fairly”. Then in two years when it’s all gone, I’d like to see what Bernie and Pocahontas pull out of their hat.

You guys have some really weird fantasies...But to each their own I guess.

 

[Brent in Az]

I guess everything truly is bigger in Texas...including the Oligarchs.

Socialist envy?
Didn't you say you drive a Tesla that you bought from said Oligarch?

 

[Big_Easy]

The guy that designed Obamacare said it a while back in a speech with rare candor, "Universal healthcare is rationed healthcare".

Except that is exactly what we have right now in the USA, rationed healthcare. Expensive healthcare is rationed healthcare too. If you're rich then you get the very best, if you're poor...then good luck buddy. How many people have died simply because they couldn't afford basic meds like insulin?

Are you worried that universal healthcare will create something that already exists in America? Or are you really worried that it will affect you now? That seems to be the modern right-wing ethos...It's okay if someone else gets screwed over...but once it happens to me...then its unacceptable!

 

[Doug Hamilton]

Like this guy?

New York Daily News journalist: Firing an AR-15 gave me PTSD

Firing an AR-15-style rifle can be a deeply traumatic experience, according to a New York-based journalist who said his recent experience with the popular

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Those AR-15s are really scary. He was so upset he let his man bun come unraveled!

 

[pilar]

If you trust them. Also, $1,500 trumps $25K. I don't think Anthem covers Thailand. Post surgery care would have to be done here, so that would also cost a lot. How was your surgery at Thailand?

Some things I would trust overseas hospitals. I will be doing a complete check up and tests later on this year overseas. Total cost will be $4K - $5K, here it would be a lot more.

+ I like recouping in a air conditioning unit hospital
And have top notch cardiology team and pulmonary incase I get a blood clot
Overseas dental work is a different story, cheaper and equal to USA quality imo