Indeed, this is cause for much concern, because it is -- in fact (as science history teaches us), only a matter of time before Clade 1b (i.e., the more lethal version) starts showing a similar -- or completely novel -- mutation, one that better adapts it to human to human transmission. Harrowing.
This is what countless prior biological outbreaks have taught us, for well-over a century now. Ever since we understood it well enough to follow it: this is how bio-science works. As it has, for billions of years, on Earth. And no amount of ignorant Bible thumping. . . will ever stop it -- or even insulate it, from our shores. So, Tangerine and RFK, Jr. need to wake up -- we need to get back in the game. Our children's very lives will depend on it, right here in the US -- eventually. Here's the latest, from the UK's Telegraph:
. . .A new variant of mpox that may be better adapted to spread between people has been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The new strain is a mutation of Clade 1a mpox – an older variant that has been known to cause more severe disease than Clade 2, which caused a global outbreak in 2022, or Clade 1b, which has been spreading rapidly in Africa since 2023.
Dr Ngashi Ngongo, who heads the mpox incident management team at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), said the new strain raises significant public health concerns. . . .
This is because it carries a mutation known as APOBEC3, which indicates that it may be more transmissible, he explained. The same mutation had already been seen in Clade 1b mpox and has helped it spread beyond the DRC to several neighbouring countries as well as Europe and Asia. . . .
We (as a species) are more in need now -- than at almost any time in the last century -- of real, courageous hard science minds to stand as one -- and combat this backward thinking, Luddite-team's views. Or we will. . . surely ride the whirlwind of an inexorably-ensuing viral agent, in the coming five to ten years -- right here at home. Onward.
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Specifically, a new sworn statement filed this morning by AIDS Advocacy in DC recites as follows -- about Marco Rubio's duplicity before the federal courts:
". . .Plaintiffs move for leave to supplement the record to include additional documents pertinent to Plaintiffs’ motion for preliminary relief, ECF 13, as well as to whether this Court should reconsider civil contempt against Defendants, see ECF 26. These documents -- three recent memoranda written by Nicolas Enrich, Acting Assistant Administrator of the USAID Bureau for Global Health -- show that Defendants have misled this Court about the availability of waivers to permit lifesaving humanitarian assistance, further confirm that Defendants have taken no steps toward compliance with this Court’s February 13 TRO and, to the contrary, have actively taken steps to prevent compliance, and provide additional support for Plaintiffs’ request for injunctive relief. . . .
Further, the memorandum states that DOGE advisors directed the Bureau for Global Health not to review awards slated for termination to see if those awards were covered by the waiver, id. at 3, and that political leadership instructed the Bureau “to deprioritize activities related to neglected tropical diseases, Mpox, polio, Ebola, and any monitoring and surveillance activities, as those would not be approved,” id. at 5. It concludes that the Bureau “has identified 72 activities across 31 awards that entail Lifesaving Humanitarian Assistance,” that “[t]o date, none of these activities have been approved” for waiver, and that “[a]ll or nearly all of the awards needed to implement humanitarian assistance were terminated on or before February 27th, rendering impossible any efforts to implement activities under the waiver, even if they had been approved. . . ."
And that motion, in full -- filed this morning, in DC:
https://teslareviewed.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/life-aids-advocac-blocked-usaid-rubio-still-dc-2025.pdf
Meanwhile last night at 7ish pm, we got email for voluntary early retirement authority. Effective for 10 days. Need to go to OPM website for more info
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