“you can have a premium player make US$200,000 or US$250,000 a single bet. A typical gambler - we're talking US$50,000 to $US200,000 per trip. And these guys make anywhere between 10 to 25 trips a year"
2. "Old School"
“However, again, you can for example go old school and wear an expensive watch, pay for it in Shanghai, get across the border & go to a jewellery store and get a refund or maybe get 97% of the money back"
3. "God help the Casinos"
"Perhaps we're going to go that way until the government of China will force the casinos to go use the digital renminbi, in which case, God help the casinos.”
@stuartjdneil@PhilippMarkolin I admit that of late my focus has been on lab animals, but from the very beginning, I also asked questions about the market animals, and not just on Twitter.
The main actors in this whistle-blower detour down the lab-leak rabbit hole include the group of internet activists known as DRASTIC, which published the documents
3. Whistleblower
Backing the headline were documents that DRASTIC said came from the unidentified whistle-blower. They showed that EcoHealth Alliance in 2018 applied for a federal grant to study bat coronaviruses with three other US research groups
1. The mature adult—balanced, reasonable, facing the world & the self with a steady eye—doesn’t need drugs....
2. Except for..
Except for one of those martinis every now and then or 3 or 5 of them and a line of blow if he’s going out dancing later and some champagne and a joint an a fistful of Tylenol, Bloody Marys, Valium, and. . .what the hell, who’s got the Ecstasy?
BSL-3 lab leak in Taipei
She was exposed to the virus in mid November
No symptoms until late in month, meanwhile went all over Taipei before finally getting tested.
Could it have started like this at a Wuhan lab? taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4371080
h/t @keverington
"Sir" Jeremy Farrar
"Sir" Patrick Vallance
Hugh Auchincloss
Paul Schreier (chief operating officer at Wellcome), Christian Drosten
Marion Koopmans
Kristian Anderson
Peter Daszak
Tony "Nostradamus" Fauci