COVID-19 hearings Wednesday

Emails were released in some scanned format.

Not lab notebook (s)

 

I kept personnel paper notebooks of my work; because I noticed some of my equipment notes disappearing from the database. I was once ORDERED to do something that wasn't kosher - so I said your the boss and I'm noting it on the maintenance log. By the way; I have hard copies, so if anything should happen; you'll have to explain why there are holes in the data set. There were only 4 people in that department that had administrative access rights to make changes/deletions to the DB after the fact - I wasn't one of them.
My first real job was writing databases and the first thing we lay down is the check-n-trail files; so we don't get sued for business loses due to inaccurate data. The few times we were sued, we pulled up the login and time the incorrect data was entered and caused the business loss. It was always a flaw in data entry or someone "cooking-the-books" - NOT an issue with the DB.

 

interesting article in the NYT today. Canadian virologist discussing the hunt for the covid origins, why it is so important to find out, and how poorly we are doing and have been doing at keeping worldwide virus labs safe from accidental release.
covid-pandemic-lab-leak-prevention.html
if that is paywalled for you, here is an interview from 2005:alina-chan-cambridge-covid
this lady is brilliant, and makes a lot of sense to me. regardless of your politics, she points out all of the mistakes we've been making with these labs, and, (cover your ears if you don't want to hear it) covid was likely an accidental release from the wuhan lab, and why the attempt to cover it up by blaming the a jump at the meat market was a result of the human condition.

 

Yeah, remember when if God forbid you said the origins were the Chinese - you'd immediately get labeled a racist? It's as idiotic as saying you're racist when someone discovers the "Learing Center"
Sorry, but crime is crying & negligence is negligence regardless of "who" the who done it is.