[MAIL] A band of herpes-ridden monkeys are roaming across northeastern Florida after escaping from a state park miles away, threatening the locals and the environment.
The rhesus macaques were living at the Silver Springs State Park near Ocala, Florida, but the creatures, native to south and southeast Asia, escaped the area and have since been spotted in Jacksonville, St. Johns, St. Augustine, Palatka, Welaka, and Elkton, Florida, according to First Coast News.
While the monkeys tend to keep to themselves, over a quarter of the 300 feral creatures counted at Silver Spring State Park carried Herpes B, according to a 2018 survey by National Geographic.
While it's extremely rare for herpes B to spread from monkey to human, when it does it can be fatal.
The rhesus macaques were first introduced to Silver Springs State Park in the late 1930s when a tour boat operator named Colonel Tooey released 12 of the furry animals onto a man-made island as a tourist attraction.
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We already have open season on iguanas and they are only a nuisance due to their invasiveness. I'd say the disease vector angle is going to make monkey hunting a thing here. Soon to be followed by some smalltime Jane Goodall knockoff demanding that, like Britny Spears, we need to 'leave the monkeys alone."
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Shoulda kept em in Atlanta
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Today is Groundhog Day! Early this morning in Gobblers Knob, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow and predicts an early spring. #GroundhogDaypic.twitter.com/3ltx921kGS
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Wikipedia says: " Impartial estimates place the groundhog's accuracy between 35% and 40%."
So you better go with the opposite of the prediction.
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^ Panda Express, and now this? My faith in the reliability of exotic furballs is crushed forever! I suppose you'll be coming for the Easter Bunny next? Santa, maybe?
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FWIW, there is more than one groundhog festival. You may remember this incident. I don't know if it was related, but the mayor didn't run for re-election.
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^ Pretty much unforgettable, that. Felt for the groundhog, but (easy for me to say) totally worth it.
Also, blush.
Though 'twasn't exactly echt Brecht,
I hoped one might faintly detect
The tropic aroma
Myopics on soma
Might smell on the Greta Prospekt.
#2
Don't forget the other side, "Facebook Announces Plan To Remove Posts About Coronavirus ‘Conspiracy Theories’". HIV constructed lab Virus. Now Chicken. Well suddenly vaccine is now available. That was quick. News is not news these days. I guess they want to become weathermen. Perhaps today's Democrat. No consequences.
#3
Imagine this getting into Bangladesh. Even India. Huge concentrations of humanity. WHO always wanted to reduce the worlds population. Greta Thunberg type people must be happy (wrong) or at least feel better.
#5
Last one,"James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, has published a detailed article explaining the SARS insertion into the coronavirus and why this is proof that the coronavirus now circulating in the wild is of laboratory origin, not coming from bats and snakes".
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lay out his negotiating terms for talks with the European Union on Monday, saying Britain will prosper even if he cannot strike his preferred trade deal.
After marking Britain’s departure from the EU at a party in his Downing Street residence on Friday, Johnson will use a speech to ram home his message that Brexit, for him, means that sovereignty trumps the economy.
The sides have until the end of the year, when a standstill transitional period expires, to try to secure a deal on trade and future relations - something London and Brussels both say they want to do, but on very different terms.
Trade talks will begin in March. After criticising his predecessor Theresa May’s approach in negotiating a divorce deal with the EU, Johnson is striking a much tougher tone, saying Britain will not adhere to the bloc’s rules and regulations.
And he will say that, if the EU fails to grant a trade deal allowing for tariff- and quota-free trade in goods, similar to the terms the bloc now has in place with Canada, Britain will pursue a much looser arrangement, like one Australia has.
#4
Let's say this: What we're selling can't be easily replaced. Which just means that Brits need to be prepared to pay more but we won't be seeing anything of it.
It's also quite possible that the UK goes for 0% tariff. In that case nothing will change. We're not affected by physical border checks.
Other companies will struggle a bit more.
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China's economy is built on being able to continuously grow. The trade war with the US, the manufacturing moving to other countries and now the virus issues means money isn't moving and the economy isn't growing. No growth means the bad loans the banks made will come due sooner than later.
This is an attempt to get things moving until things blow over. Unfortunately, I think the virus is worse than even the government knows and with other viruses now breaking out China is in a world of hurt.
#3
"Professor Yuen Kwok-yung and his team from the University of Hong Kong (H.K.U.), which reportedly already somehow developed a vaccine that’s just awaiting testing".
Most of us know the story by now, but I also believe Twitter is simply sitting on certain conservative accounts just waiting for the right time to deplatform someone, and it's now Zero Hedge's turn.
[Rooters, via Drudge] - Twitter Inc has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fast-spreading coronavirus last week.
Zero Hedge said it received a notification from Twitter on Friday, accusing it of violating the social media company's "rules against abuse and harassment." Here's the scumbag BuzzFeed part:
Zero Hedge said it initially thought the suspension was triggered by an article it published on Friday about the makeup of the coronavirus. But it suggested it later learned Twitter had received a complaint from online news website BuzzFeed over a separate article.
BuzzFeed said Zero Hedge had released the personal information of a scientist from Wuhan in an article that made allegations about coronavirus having been concocted "as a bioweapon." The article was titled "Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?"
BuzzFeed did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Until today, once everyone gets their stories straight. I checked the links ZH provided in their Friday afternoon response and they did indeed go to two sites that clearly identified this guy in public information. These a-holes should all be exiled to ANWR.
[AA.TR] At least 20 people died in a stampede as scores of worshippers who gathered at a religious festival in Tanzania’s northern Kilimanjaro region crushed each other as they engage in a frenzied jostling to be anointed with "blessed" oil by a self-proclaimed prophet around midnight.
Thousands of people gathered in an overnight religious festival organized by a Pentecostal church in Moshi town nestled on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. The worshippers, including women and kiddies who were jostling to step on blessed oil crushed each other, officials said Sunday.
Among those who died, 16 are women, one man and three children, officials said.
Kippi Warioba, a local district commissioner for Kilimanjaro, told Anadolu Agency that the incident happened around dawn as worshippers pushed each other to be blessed by Boniface Mwamposa, a popular evangelical Christian pastor.
According to Warioba, 40 others who sustained bodily injuries have been admitted at a nearby Mawenzi referral hospital for treatment.
Police have launched a manhunt against Pastor Mwamposa, a key suspect, who reportedly fled the venue at Majengo grounds in Moshi following the incident.
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[MAIL] A band of herpes-ridden monkeys are roaming across northeastern Florida after escaping from a state park miles away, threatening the locals and the environment. 
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson will lay out his negotiating terms for talks with the European Union on Monday, saying Britain will prosper even if he cannot strike his preferred trade deal.
