Lisa Benson for March 30, 2021

The WHO just said that the virus jumped from animals to humans. Probably through analyzing the virus itself. I’m not sure what the obsession is with proving that it was a biological weapon.

What possible difference could it make at this point? Oh, Distract, deflect, and lie. GOP tacctic 3.

Ignorance is one thing but with Benson it’s a matter of being paid well to remain willfully ignorant

Since Lisa’s signature cartoon fragment still shows Trump happily building his “big beautiful’ wall” faster than a Mexican rapist can use a ladder to get to the top of it, why would anyone expect any of her cartoons to depict reality?

Come on Benson, You can still blame the Chinese Government without lying. This wouldn’t have happened if they actually cracked down on “wet markets”, and put in place proper health codes. This is due to incompetence of a government, it wasn’t on purpose.

Lisa found where the virus jumped from bats to people – The Batman!

Unlike right wing propaganda the real people are saying:

France 24

.Virus likely jumped to humans from bats through ‘missing link’ animal: WHO report

.1 day ago

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

.WHO report: Coronavirus likely jumped from bats to humans through another animal

.1 day ago

AP News

.WHO report: COVID likely 1st jumped into humans from animals

.2 hours ago

Lisa’s bought into the Qanon Qonspiracies.

Lisa lies. Read the report or at least the summary.

Why won’t Benson accept the COVID-19 Denier-in-Chief’s word that the virus will “magically disappear?” Then, logically, the source is not an issue!

RussBowers, you are probably right about Kracklin Rosie, but anyone who thinks a good place to be doing something is among the Redwoods, can’t be all bad!!

Ask Dr. Lisa….she knows?

@ Kracklin Rosie — Au contraire! Dr. Fauci was not lying then, he was passing along the best available information at the time. Your authority, however, the COVID-19 Denier-in-Chief, was lying then and is STILL lying today. Just search “Trump’s Lies” – the list is lengthy and exhausting….

If it doesn’t agree with leases theories, then it’s fake news.

For unbiased reporting check out PBS’s “China’s Covid Secrets”.

The WHO did say they were having difficulty getting the straight skinny from China (no DOUBT!)… but they did also say that the weight of the evidence they have (not including non-evidence directly from Chinese sources) points to a leap from an animal host (probably with an intervening leap also to an animal host).

So, as usual w/ Ms Benson, she’s taken a teeny tiny bit of fact, distorted it out of all recognition, blown it up into a giant balloon-non-fact and posted it as the truth.

Read much, Lisa? Let me help: Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO scientist specializing in animal disease, said during the press conference that the group didn’t do “a full investigation or audit” of any particular lab. Overall, he added, the possibility of a lab leak “did not receive the same depth of attention and work” as other hypotheses about the virus’ origin. Still, the report offers compelling reasons why it’s extremely unlikely the virus escaped from a lab.The team found no evidence that samples of the new coronavirus existed at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, where scientists were studying various coronaviruses prior to the pandemic, before the first COVID-19 cases were reported in December 2019. The WHO also didn’t find any records indicating that viruses closely related to the new coronavirus were kept in any Chinese lab before that month. There were also no viruses that, when combined, could have produced the new coronavirus. Additionally, none of the staff in any Wuhan labs studying coronaviruses reported cases of respiratory illnesses “during the weeks/months prior to December 2019,” the report said.Blood samples from staff during that time (which are taken routinely from biosafety lab workers to monitor their health) also all tested negative for coronavirus antibodies. This suggests no lab workers got infected prior to the pandemic. Dominic Dwyer, a WHO microbiologist who’s worked in high-level biosafety labs before, said on Tuesday that the team was “satisfied there was no obvious evidence of a problem,” in any of the labs they visited. He noted as well that a complete forensic examination of a lab is a complex process, and that was “not what we were there to do.”The WHO team did, however, speak with managers and staff at the labs about their safety protocol, and confirmed the facilities were well-managed.A wealth of evidence points to the conclusion that bats first passed the coronavirus to an animal, the WHO experts said.

(Continued) Then that animal population passed it along to humans. Indeed, a May study revealed that the new coronavirus shared 97.1% of its genetic code with a coronavirus called RmYN02, which was found in bats in China’s Yunnan province between May and October 2019.Bats are common virus hosts – cross-species hops from bat populations also led to the outbreaks of Ebola, SARS, and the Nipah virus.

Is now called the Trump virus?

I don’t know or will even attempt to guess how this pandemic originated. What I do know is there have been pandemics in the past — some even worse than this one — that started with the virus passing from animals to people. No great conspiracy or purposeful attempt at biological warfare. Since the beginning of this century, we have had SARS, MER, H1N1, Avian flu. In the last century, there were several pandemics.

This, unfortunately, will not be the last pandemic we will face. All I can hope for is that scientists and political leaders have learned enough from it to handle the next one much better than this one.

The China bots’ heads are going to explode over this one, Lisa !Keep up the good work !

That’s the truth Lisa! Washington is paid well not to rock the boat with our overlords, especially president clown…tho he doesn’t remember anymore.

EVERYONE loves a good silly, stupid cartoon…like this one.

I do not trust China or the W.H.O.!

We don’t know where the virus originated, though the bat theory seems possible. Nevertheless, Lisa’s cartoon is humorously drawn, and we laughed. Thanks, Lisa!

And thank you, everyone else, for supporting working mothers working from home!

I do not like China’s labor practices or their human rights policies. That said, China did give the rest of the world fair warning in December 2019 that this Covid thing they were battling was serious and the rest of the world needed to start preparing for it ASAP!! I’m still convinced that if Hillary Clinton had won the electoral (as well as the popular) vote in 2016, she likely would have heeded China’s warning and started preparing. She certainly would haven’t disbanded the Pandemic Task Force Obama set up during the Ebola outbreak. All we can do now is keep ramping up the number of vaccinations and bring the spiking states under control again. We will see the end of this! Just not as quickly as we’d like. It’s easier to break things than fix them.

Now that is funny.