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Claire Berlinski.

@ClaireBerlinski

16 Jan

https://twitter.com/ClaireBerlinski/status/1350481953665986563

The blockbuster claim is, "The U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses." But ...

https://twitter.com/ClaireBerlinski/status/1350481953665986563

The phrasing is weird. The US government has reason to believe that several researchers exhibited symptoms in August 2019 consistent *both* with Covid19 and "common seasonal illnesses." Does this mean they have reason to believe researchers had a cold?

It's not a blockbuster claim unless there's special reason to think these were Covid19 symptoms. People used to get colds all the time--before we all went into lockdown and began compulsively sanitizing ourselves.

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Claire Berlinski.

@ClaireBerlinski

14 Jan

@DovSFriedman

The other day @DovSFriedman sent me a link to this mesmerizing newsletter by
@Patrick_Wyman. patrickwyman.substack.com He sent it to me because of the post you'll see first, if you look. But last night, before falling asleep, I looked at the older posts:

and I found them riveting. patrickwyman.substack.com/p/the-americas…

Much more interesting, in a sense, than the first post. I knew almost nothing about Clovis culture; and still know almost nothing except that it would be fascinating to know more.

And all of this took place very recently, if you think of it in any logical way. And there's something calming about thinking of these things--as the title of the blog suggests--in a bigger perspective.

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Claire Berlinski.

@ClaireBerlinski

14 Jan

https://twitter.com/VladDavidzon/status/1349560303504281601

Turkification too. And many other parliaments, including the Taiwanese. The question I'm asking myself is not, "Why is this so shocking," as much as, "Why are are so shocked?" The US had a civil war! In almost generational memory, with untold bloodshed! bbc.com/news/av/world-…

https://twitter.com/VladDavidzon/status/1349560303504281601

Why do we not have this historic memory at *ready* access when we ask ourselves "What is the world like?"

I certainly had it *at access,* which is a different thing. I've studied that war avidly; I was and remain fascinated by it; but my perspective was so distorted:

I thought "we" defeated the Confederacy (and became the United States into which I was born in 1968--a child whose grandparents had all arrived there after the turn of the century) But that *is* the genius of historic forgetfulness--

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Claire Berlinski.

@ClaireBerlinski

12 Jan

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1349064882583457795

Pompeo is a perfect example of this thing that just baffles me. He owes America *everything.* His grandparents immigrated from dirt-poor regions of Italy at the turn of the C19th. He graduated *first in his class* at West Point.

https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1349064882583457795

He has a law degree from Harvard. He was the editor of the Harvard Law Review. Went to DC and joined a blue-chip firm. Also made a fortune in private enterprise. America gave the grandson of dirt-poor immigrants the opportunity to do all of that.

He knows *damned well* what the Constitution says.

He's also seen enough of the world to know *damned well* how lucky he was to grow up in a country at peace, governed by that Constitution--and to know *damned well* what happens to a country in a civil war

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Claire Berlinski.

@ClaireBerlinski

12 Jan

The thing I don't get is the smart people who've gone along with Trump. Dumb people are dumb; that's why we call them dumb. But why would someone literate enough to have read the Constitution--someone who has publicly sworn,

"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" conclude that following Trump--not the Constitution of the United States of America--is a good idea?

There are people who are just too stupid to grasp how lucky they are to have been born in the United States and governed by that Constitution. I get that. And there are sociopaths and losers who feel the US hasn't done right by them--I get that, too.

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