I’ve been traveling in Turkey meeting my wife’s Muslim Iranian family for the first time after ten years of marriage, and almost forgot to post about the four year anniversary of the moral of Covid, which I tweeted and pinned March 17, 2020.
Safe travels and enjoy the time with your family! I hope you post this reminder every year for the rest of your very long life so that that the “who could have known” clown camp attendees aren’t allowed to rewrite history.
I'd be curious if her Iranian family remembers the name Parviz Sabeti from his leadership of Iran's SAVAK under the Shah? And what they would think about his daughter, Pardis Sabeti's role in helping amplify that social contagion developing and deploying intrusive surveillance systems and promoting house arrest of healthy people for fear of a biological contagion here in the US, as she lauds her father as the great protector of human rights under the Shah?
For those who aren't up on those names I've shared on Mark's Stack in prior comments before:
Pardis Sabeti:
A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic
Her biggest complaint about pandemic protocols is that they weren't imposed faster and harder. Which isn't surprising when you learn who her father is.
Parviz Sabeti:
Torture and Denials of Rights Laid to Iran by Jurists’ Group
Pardis Sabeti is a eugenics geneticist. Her work is inspired by her regime thug enforcer father. Work that includes viral evolutionary dynamics, engineering (engineered viruses). She shared the stage with another eugenics geneticist at the TIME100 Summit in April, 2019 - George Church. Talking about the bioethics of things like viruses targeted to kill an individual or ethnicity.
George Church is at the center of the genetics/eugenics research world. And this was a discussion on the bioethics of the work. Interestingly, George Church received a LOT of funding from Jeffrey Epstein. Who himself was a big eugenicist.
Yep, I'd be real curious what your wife's Muslim Iranian family remembers about the the most feared man in Iran under the Shah's daughter being at the center of the totalitarian global pandemic response, "saving the world?"
Safe travels and enjoy the time with your family! I hope you post this reminder every year for the rest of your very long life so that that the “who could have known” clown camp attendees aren’t allowed to rewrite history.
I'd be curious if her Iranian family remembers the name Parviz Sabeti from his leadership of Iran's SAVAK under the Shah? And what they would think about his daughter, Pardis Sabeti's role in helping amplify that social contagion developing and deploying intrusive surveillance systems and promoting house arrest of healthy people for fear of a biological contagion here in the US, as she lauds her father as the great protector of human rights under the Shah?
For those who aren't up on those names I've shared on Mark's Stack in prior comments before:
Pardis Sabeti:
A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic
TED2020, April 2020
https://www.ted.com/talks/pardis_sabeti_and_christian_happi_a_virus_detection_network_to_stop_the_next_pandemic
The Future of Virus Tracking Can Be Found on This College Campus
NY Times, May 17, 2021
https://archive.fo/GNfJE
Pardis Sabeti Is Saving the World… Again
The Register Forum, The Student Newspaper of Cambridge, December 7, 2020
https://registerforum.org/12918/news/pardis-sabeti-is-saving-the-world-again/
Responding to this pandemic, preparing for the next
Harvard Gazette, May 13, 2020
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/05/pardis-sabetis-work-on-infectious-disease-coronavirus/
Breakthrough - Technologies for Pandemic Preparedness
Brookings Institution, January 25, 2022
https://www.brookings.edu/books/breakthrough/
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Chapter-Two_Breakthrough.pdf
Her biggest complaint about pandemic protocols is that they weren't imposed faster and harder. Which isn't surprising when you learn who her father is.
Parviz Sabeti:
Torture and Denials of Rights Laid to Iran by Jurists’ Group
New York Times, May 29, 1976
https://archive.fo/cTKWI#selection-281.0-281.60
SAVAK: A Feared and Pervasive Force
Washington Post, May 9, 1977
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/05/09/savak-a-feared-and-pervasive-force/ad609959-d47b-4b7f-8c8d-b388116df90c
Our heroine savior of the world, Pardis isn't apologetic about her father, Pardiz:
'Hands Are Stained With Blood': Iranians Outraged After Shah-Era Secret-Police Official Attends U.S. Rally
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-sabeti-us-protest-savak/32271395.html
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-shah-infamous-savak-deputy-us-protest-press-review
At her TIME100 Leadership Award she got she had this to say:
https://time.com/6219137/pardis-sabeti-time100-impact-awards-women-iran/
Pardis Sabeti is a eugenics geneticist. Her work is inspired by her regime thug enforcer father. Work that includes viral evolutionary dynamics, engineering (engineered viruses). She shared the stage with another eugenics geneticist at the TIME100 Summit in April, 2019 - George Church. Talking about the bioethics of things like viruses targeted to kill an individual or ethnicity.
Short clip: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/dr-george-church-dr-giuliana-214036340.html
Long clip: https://time.com/5574168/doctors-ethical-medical-miracles-time-100-summit/
George Church is at the center of the genetics/eugenics research world. And this was a discussion on the bioethics of the work. Interestingly, George Church received a LOT of funding from Jeffrey Epstein. Who himself was a big eugenicist.
Yep, I'd be real curious what your wife's Muslim Iranian family remembers about the the most feared man in Iran under the Shah's daughter being at the center of the totalitarian global pandemic response, "saving the world?"
And, oh yes, have a great time!