Henry Payne for March 02, 2023

Who says payne’s got no brain

Oh wait everybody

I’m never sure who’s pocket Payne is in, is it the Chinese or Russians or both?

Sinophobia!

Is Biden blind, or is the artist blindly attacking him because the intel report itself states it is low confidence? Was Biden behind the leak and did it happen on his watch, or did the problem happen under the previous administration and expanded because if that administrations incompetence? Did the artist blame the previous administration for the poor handling of the pandemic, especially in the early months?

This is where science trumps right-wing ignorance and bigotry. The public evidence for lab leak is flimsy to non-existent. So unless the Department of Energy is sitting on something other than the comprehensive and peer-reviewed study published in July 2022 in the journal Science concluding the coronavirus most likely jumped from a caged animal to humans at the Hunan Seafood Wholesale Market in December 2019, We need to stick with the science.

The head of FBI said covid "likely’ came from Chinese lab. He also said we can never really know where it started. That’s pretty much what everyone else has said, although some said it “likely” originated in wet market. We really don’t know for sure and probably never will.

Energy Department ??? Isn’t that the Department Rick Perry forgot he wanted to eliminate and then was named Secretary?

What the hail does the Energy Department know about viral biology?

(Other than what they read on Facebook.)

In 2017, the White House’s National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense survived the transition from Obama to Trump intact. Its mission was the same as when the Obama administration established it after the Ebola epidemic of 2014: to do everything possible within the vast powers and resources of the U.S. government to prepare for the next disease outbreak and prevent it from becoming an epidemic or pandemic. They set up clinics in hot spots all over the world, whose job was to monitor the local situation and immediately send for adequate help to contain any threat. One of those clinics was in the Chinese province where Covid originated. One year later, the Trump White House dissolved the office, as part of the budget cuts needed when he cut taxes.

The job of a White House pandemics office would have been to get ahead: to accelerate the response, empower experts, anticipate failures, and act quickly and transparently to solve problems. It’s impossible to assess the full impact of the 2018 decision to disband the White House office responsible for this work, but it is clear that eliminating the office contributed to the federal government’s sluggish domestic response. What’s especially concerning about the absence of this office today is that it was originally set up because a previous epidemic made the need for it quite clear. When asked about the slow roll-out of coronavirus tests in the U.S. on March 13, President Trump responded, “I don’t take responsibility at all.” Trump is not just responsible for it. He owns it. The Trump Plague is not just his responsibility. It and all the problems it caused are his fault.

Apparently the issue is settled.

Yeah, right And where are the other seven studies?

Why is the origin of Covid a partisan issue? Isn’t this the kind of question that should be settled — if it can be settled — by experts?

Dr. Li-Meng Yan, Chinese virologist revealed the truth about Wuhan labs.

Every report says that it is possible that Covid came from a lab, but nothing says that it did come from a lab.

Very big difference.

What do you want Biden to do with inconclusive evidence?

Payne should stick to trying to draw cars…

Just Payne Stupid. Reliably so…

8 investigations done, 4 said the virus came from the Wuhan Lab with “low confidence”, 2 said it came from the wet markets, and 2 said they could not determine. But if you ask a conservative they are certain. Tucker told them so.

And caught it himself.

Sure, the Energy Department is the first (and only) choice for discovering how diseases work (certainly not the CDC or any group of physicians), and also the best choice for finding out what’s going on in foreign countries (certainly not the CIA or any other intelligence agency)…

And also, “low confidence” actually means “without any doubt” to people who also believe “Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening”…

You are relentlessly funny, Mr. Payne. Silly humor of the richest kind. My sides hurt again. Love your artwork.

oh, henry. always grasping at straws…

If it isn’t energy, why do I care?

Well not wearing a mask certainly doesn’t work.

low confidence… rectal cavity…low confidence….