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Six months of COVID vaccines: what 1.7 billion doses have taught scientists

Two med school professors warned Fauci about COVID lab-leak possibility in February 2020: emails

Humans Can Learn How to ‘Echolocate’ in Just 10 Weeks, Experiment Shows

Governor Newsom Reneges on Promise to Surrender His Emergency COVID-19 Powers

Bing Censors Image Search for ‘Tank Man’ Even in US

China State Media Says Country Must Prepare for Nuclear War With U.S. After Biden Asks for COVID Probe

US Defence sent money to Wuhan lab to counter “Weapons of Mass Destruction” and helped create one?

Taliban seizes six districts in the past week

Drone attacks in Iraq point to new Iranian strategy

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What Happens When Doctors Can’t Tell the Truth?

I am dubious about this as it is not well sourced in my view. But it would explain the sudden shift in what you are allowed to say. REPORT: High-Ranking Chinese Defector Working With DIA Has ‘Direct Knowledge’ of China’s Bioweapons Program—and It’s Very Bad

The drone was first detected near an energy storage facility across from Davis-Monthan AFB before evading two pursuing law enforcement helicopters.

‘Ammon Bundy coming soon.’ Federal water cutoffs igniting rebellion in Northern California

Bill Gates’ next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming

At least 100 killed in terrorist raids on villages in Burkina Faso

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Is the Second Shot Giving Young Men a Dangerous Heart Condition?

The Lab-Leak Theory: Inside the Fight to Uncover COVID-19’s Origins

Fauci worked behind the scenes to cast doubt on Wuhan lab leak hypothesis, emails show

After 15 years, deep brain stimulation still effective in people with Parkinson’s

Angry Antifa Mob Surrounds Portland Hotel Believing Journalist Andy Ngo is Inside

Yale’s move to rig board elections reveals the bankruptcy of US elites

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Amazon US customers have one week to opt out of mass wireless sharing

JBS global meat processing operations paralysed by cyber attack

Washington Post Edits 15-Month-Old Headline That Claimed COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory Was ‘Already Debunked’

Iran navy’s largest ship sinks after fire in Gulf of Oman

Hackers attack world’s largest meat processor: Work disrupted in US & Canada, deliveries halted & thousands sent home in Australia

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There are more than 8 million empty homes in rural Japan, and local governments are selling them for as little as $500 in a bid to lure residents

All of JBS’s U.S. Beef Plants Were Forced Shut by Cyberattack

If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake

Buried Alive In Mongolia’s Worst Sandstorms In A Decade

US nuclear weapon bunker security secrets spill from online flashcards since 2013

Documents Reveal Google Made It Nearly Impossible To Hide Your Location Data

Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime

GO FIGURE:

CHINA TO ALLOW MARRIED COUPLES TO HAVE 3 CHILDREN

Intel reiterates chip supply shortages could last several years

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A federal judge earlier this week denied a preliminary injunction that, unless overturned on appeal, could force the College of the Ozarks to begin allowing men in women’s dorms and showers — or vice versa.

Soldiers In Drag Are Nothing New For The Identity-Obsessed U.S. Military

A mega dam on the Great Bend of China

Turkey’s currency plummets to historic low

Shabaab mounts increased rate of attacks inside Kenya

Apocalyptic scenes in eastern Congo as a volcanic eruption triggers earthquakes and fears of Lake Kivu methane explosions

YES, VACCINES ARE ONLY ONE WAY TO ACQUIRE IMMUNITY:

They were experimenting with the equivalent of an atomic bomb

10 Paragraphs

A few years ago, I wrote a short story on a lark. It was not good but in my judgment it was not terrible. It was easy to write compared to serious non-fiction of comparable length so I figured I would do it again when I had some spare time. That may still happen sometime, but if it does, it will not have been easy. I have now gone through ten drafts (actually, eleven but one of the files is corrupted and I can’t look at it) and almost all of those drafts were pages and pages of writing.

You would think that if you already know what happens, figuring how to tell it should not be that hard particularly if you are not too concerned about quality. And it is not like I have been going though all these drafts because the events in question have been changing. ON the contrary, in all of the drafts, nothing about the basic facts of the story change. All that changes is how I try to tell those facts.

Even though it is my own writing, I actually found in interesting to go back and review the different ways I tried to accomplish this over the years. On the off chance that others might find it interesting as well, I have put the first paragraph (or the first and second if the first paragraph was really short) of each draft I have access to with some commentary below the jump.

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