The official told me that in late 2019 “the agency had a source in the laboratory at Wuhan” who reported—long before any official statement from Chinese authorities—that “China was doing both offensive and defensive work” with possible SARS pathogens and there had been a laboratory accident that left one researcher infected. The illness quickly spread.
I further learned then that the CIA’s source was being paid by arrangement with the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, which was one of many American institutions, including universities, funding the Wuhan laboratory’s research programs.
🤔 hmm. What didn’t work? Perhaps we each need to bring a second cellphone? Purchase real flashlights and use those instead? With enough flashlights we will defeat the armies of darkness! AfD evildoers must be forced to see the error of their ways!
On the day the world ends
A bee circles a clover,
A fisherman mends a glimmering net.
Happy porpoises jump in the sea,
By the rainspout young sparrows are playing
And the snake is gold-skinned as it should always be.
On the day the world ends
Women walk through the fields under their umbrellas,
A drunkard grows sleepy at the edge of a lawn,
Vegetable peddlers shout in the street
And a yellow-sailed boat comes nearer the island,
The voice of a violin lasts in the air
And leads into a starry night.
And those who expected lightning and thunder
Are disappointed.
And those who expected signs and archangels’ trumps
Do not believe it is happening now.
As long as the sun and the moon are above,
As long as the bumblebee visits a rose,
As long as rosy infants are born
No one believes it is happening now.
Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet
Yet is not a prophet, for he’s much too busy,
Repeats while he binds his tomatoes:
There will be no other end of the world,
There will be no other end of the world.
—Czesław Miłosz, translated by Anthony Miłosz Warsaw, 1944
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