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In another Very Florida story, a woman with a colorful criminal history has spent the last year collecting media accolades and a half-million dollars in donations by accusing the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, of fudging the state’s COVID numbers.
Rebekah Jones [Tweet her] website designer (not “scientist,” as the media insistently claim), falsely accused DeSantis of doing what Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York actually
was doing with the COVID numbers. From the extensive media coverage, I figured maybe the DeSantis administration was taking advantage of gray areas to make the state’s record look as good as possible. Not as bad as what Cuomo was doing, but
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I have been enthusiastically promoting Nicholas Wade s long article on the origins of the COVID virus.
Wade compares the two common theories: (a) the wet market theory, that the virus jumped from bats, or from bats via some intermediate host, to humans at a live-animal market in Wuhan, China, and (b) the lab escape theory, that the virus originated in a lab, also in Wuhan, doing research into viruses.
Wade allows that we can t say dispositively which theory is correct; but by a judicious and thoroughly-researched sifting of the facts we
do know, he leaves his reader thinking that the lab escape theory is the more probable one.