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Yes, just another dumb covid vanity post. But, before you dismiss it out of hand, a question. China has been on a zero covid policy since December of 2019. China maintains a very large population that for all intents has not been exposed to the original virus. We are fairly sure current variants outside of China are diminishing in strength and severity. But, if the virus in China has never had the chance to mutate to a less severe form, what is the risk to the rest of the world as the virus is basically released for the second time?...

Video has emerged of clashes between police and people being forced out of their homes in Shanghai, as the city enters a third week of Covid lockdown. Some residential compounds are being turned into quarantine centres. Millions are confined to their homes as Shanghai battles a fresh outbreak of the virus. Anyone who tests positive is placed in quarantine. But with more than 20,000 new cases a day, authorities are struggling to find enough space.

America's feared nuclear missile facilities are still controlled by computers from the 1960s and floppy disks 60 Minutes received a tour of the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the storage facility of 450 nuclear warheads and a Minuteman III missile The facility was built in the 1960s to withstand a nuclear attack and alot of its equipment dates back to that time The floppy disks that contain the missile launch codes are safe and effective because it allows center to stay disconnected from the internet and prevent cyber terrorism, the military claims Tour comes in the wake...