The Columbia Heart Beat

The China-Carolina virus?  Part One

COLUMBIA, Mo 5/27/21 (Feature) -- US President Joe Biden wants answers about the origins of Covid, the virus behind the biggest American pandemic since the 1918 flu, and a bigger menace worldwide.

Biden has tasked US intelligence agencies with a job that should have been done a year ago, and by lots of different investigators, including journalists:  find out if Covid has natural -- or unnatural -- origins .

 

A theory dismissed for over a year -- that Covid escaped from a virology lab in Wuhan, China -- is not only sounding more credible, but may have troubling American counterparts, including US funding and research leadership.

Covid Conspiracy?

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Staffers make excuses, complaint says

COLUMBIA, Mo 9/17/20 (Beat Byte) -- The City of Columbia is under fire for breaking its own Covid rules.

The city's Activity and Recreation Center (ARC)   "has been functioning in violation of the City Mask Ordinance since the ordinance went into effect on July 10, 2020. That's two months of violation thus far,"  Rebecca DeCourley and Paul Berg  emailed city officials including 4th Ward Councilman Ian Thomas and Boone County Health Department director Stephanie Browning . 

"All I am hearing is excuses about how hard it is to comply ," the complainants explained. "Something being hard or difficult is not an excuse not to do it. It just means you may have to work harder."