How genetic science helped expose a coronavirus outbreak in Iowa - Washington Post
Absolutely cracking story of a scientist who rolled up his sleeves and tracked the virus the State and employer tried to hide to 15 different states - and beyond. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/…
One of the reasons why I am very very troubled by employers, schools, universities using their own testing devices.
If you have bad actors it is too easy to hide an outbreak that is perceived as being bad for business.
Operation Moonshot, in other words.
It started with rumours at a kosher plant..
A rabbi sick.
An employee falling ill.
Others with Fevers & chills.
The employer would not shut down even with confirmed cases.
Nor would the State department responsible IOSHA
Nor the Governor. Just the reverse. Employees were threatened with prosecution if they released data, & it took 7 weeks before testing at the plant was conducted.
An Irish tumour geneticist, Paraic ( pronounced Pourick) Kenny, was intrigued and he decided Ed to track the molecular bar code infected swabs can deliver.
This was too interesting to miss
He started in April, working through the night, on samples being sent over, uploading the sequences to a global database that enabled him to identify sub strains introduced into the region from around the world.
The onward story of the cover up, the avoidable suffering and the exposure through painstaking genomic detective work really is quite something.
Especially given the lengths organisation & politicians went to to threaten, lie & conceal
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We’re just pausing over tea to discuss the location of the DC solar panel isolation switches as the loft is not a good location for me up a wobbly loft ladder and very awkward loft hatch
They are going in the spare bedroom cupboard so easy for me to get to
The team is absolutely lovely.
Tomorrow the roofing panel team will arrive: James and Rhys who have both been doing this for 4 years.
James is ex military
Rob and Andy (electricians and survey team)
Geoff (sales consultant) has been in solar for years.
Just thinking about my young Ukrainian Refugee today.
Two years ago today she was awoken by her brother in law, a customs official, telling her to get out of Kyiv straight away. Forget her home and job there. The Russians were invading.
She left to go to her parents
So did her sister and her two young children. To a tiny village in the Poltava Region. All living together in their parents house.
What must it have been like for her? Realising that the war was not going to be over quickly and her lost home and lost job were now her reality
Meanwhile her cousins were fighting at the front. The loss of life and destruction of property all too real and the grim stories of torture, rape and deportation of children growing louder.
Suddenly having to take off to a foreign country she had never visited to survive
Extraordinary: “On 11 June 2020 a Supplemental Deed was signed by (HOUCHEN) & (Corney & Musgrave). “The innocuous title & diminutive page count contrasts with the practical impact of this legal document, which amends the…agreements signed in March 2020”
The March 2020 deal which granted options to TWL over the entire Teesworks site,” comments the review (16.31).
“The amendments added wording which provided express permission for TWL to enter any of the option land & to remove all minerals, aggregates, metals & equipment”
“ & title to such items passes to TWL on removal from the property. The effect of this was to transfer to the JV Partners 50% of the value of the recyclable materials”
TWL = Tees Works Ltd which WAS owned 50/50 by South Tees Development Corp (public) and Corney & Musgrave (JV)
Ladies & gentlemen : I give you Steve Gibson, Houchen’s then vice chair at South Tees Development Corp. “You’ll be fucking shaking your head very soon. I’ll be fucking shaking it…you are going to get a fight like you have never fucking experienced…and I want your walls…”
“..and I want your eyes out of your head; I want the fucking roof off your house; I want your kids out of private school; I want no shoes on your fucking feet”
That’s his idea of a professional negotiation with PD ports.
He went on to say that he didn’t pay over any money to the PO but he did have a conversation with Geoff Hoon who was Defence Minister in Blair’s Gov at the time
He advised this postmaster, who had 3 post offices at the time and oversaw or provided relief for 20, to get out of PO
Now what did Geoff Hoon know back in the early 2000s to make him say that?
In any event this clip seems particularly important as he says the remote alteration they all saw together disappeared a couple of days later…also done remotely.