'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California
'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California
Scripps News shows how a secret lab in central California was connected to the Chinese Communist Party.
There was blood and other bodily fluids in Gatorade bottles labeled in Mandarin, samples of at least 20 potentially infectious agents including malaria, dengue fever, and COVID-19 — and a pungent odor from what turned out to be nearly 1,000 mice.
To anyone who hasn't read the article or watched the video yet: don't bother. It makes a lot of assumptions and answers very little. Really poor journalism.
53Really poor journalism
It goes beyond that. They took news that broke 4.5 months ago:
Then they remove any and all mentions that the facility was manufacturing testing kits for COVID, HIV, and pregnancy tests (do a cntrl+F for test in the OP article). Now, without informing the users that testing kits were being manufactured, the presence of disease samples and rats sounds more nefarious.
It would be like reporting that tons of fertilizer were found in a building, and not reporting that the facility belongs to a landscaping company.
18Court documents confirm the CDC found potentially infectious agents at the location. These included both bacterial and viral agents, including: chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, hepatitis B and C, herpes 1 and 5 and rubella. The CDC also found samples of malaria.
I don't know. Sounds pretty nefarious to me. They were infecting mice and human tissues with who-knows-what and disposing of them illegally, including in municipal waste.
Even producing tests in sketchy, illegal labs is pretty fucked up.
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I got as far as "Gatorade bottles labelled in Mandarin" in the summary to know that it's shotty journalism lmao
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Isn't this is pretty much what Russia accused the USA of doing in Ukraine?
40Yes:
"Russia has claimed without any evidence that biological weapons are being developed in laboratories in Ukraine with support from the United States."
36Another projection? "I said it first so now you are the culprit"
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The Russian state isn’t exactly a reliable source of information about Ukraine or the US. They also claimed the Ukrainian government were Nazis.
18Not to mention the 3 day special military operation that is 653 days past schedule.
22Well they were found to have multiple copies of The Sims in their possession.
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This is old AF and the only thing really going on with this place is that the people running it were disgusting pigs who could care less about bio waste disposal regulations, this place needed to be shutdown because it was a public health threat.
10It never should have been active in the first place.
I have to wonder who is in charge of monitoring medical supply orders entering from China, and who's watching over businesses that have dozens of shell companies that are able to run bio weapons' manufacturing on foreign soil?
This is some scary shit.
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Okay, I read the article and it's really left me with more questions, and with minimal indication that this is actually a Chinese government-run biolab in the US. I'd like more information before making a decision on that.
34It's because the article is withholding information* to "guide" the viewer towards conspiratorial explanations. Especially with lines like this:
What China’s lab was targeting with so many dangerous pathogens remains a mystery
Meanwhile, elsewhere, this was already answered:
The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the proper permits to manufacture tests for COVID-19, pregnancy and HIV, and mislabeling some of the kits.
Also note, the OP article is not originally from AOL. AOL is quoting another article from a "Scripps News", practically in its entirety without any additional journalism on their part. If they had done any journalism, they would have found the AP article I linked with more info or the DoJ article on the charges that were brought up.
Edit:
This story broke in July 25, 2023:
investigators discovered that one room of the warehouse was used to produce COVID-19 and pregnancy tests
* Note, the words "test" or "tests" do not appear anywhere in the OP article.
69Iirc, USA and China have labs in which they collaborate, in both nations. I’m wondering if this is one of those labs, and what exactly our governments are getting up to?
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There's been updates and charges:
The Chinese owner of an unauthorized central California lab that fueled conspiracy theories about China and biological weapons has been arrested on charges of not obtaining the proper permits to manufacture tests for COVID-19, pregnancy and HIV, and mislabeling some of the kits.
Edit: Original discovery article was from July 25, 2023:
investigators discovered that one room of the warehouse was used to produce COVID-19 and pregnancy tests
25I’m more shocked this is AOL.com
17It's old AF news and Scripps News is the one doing the reporting, AOL, like MSN and Yahoo, and the Hill, just rehosts "news" articles, they have no actual journalists on staff, just "news" outlets that pay them to be on their front page.
Also this place wasn't a "Wuhan lab" it was a medical test manufacturer that also had a shitload of bio waste onsite that needs to be cleaned up as it's a threat to public health.
18Almost a month ago that charges were brought up. Interesting that this article from 3 days ago is claiming so many unknowns and mystery about this facility since it's really old news and most of those questions have been answered:
The original discovery was made 4.5 months ago:
Edit: This might be the original news source that broke the story:
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There are still people that use AOL email addresses
3And they should schedule a colonoscopy.
8I don't know what the actual number is, but I'll bet the amount of people still unknowingly paying for America Online dial-up service is shocking.
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“Our local politicians are out there terming it Wuhan 2.0,” said Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba.
Living in Reedley must be a trip with people like that in charge. I watched the whole video, and everyone interviewed seemed wack.
12Were they stealing serum? Like Bovine serum and sending it to China? That's the only guess I can reasonably make.
2Looks like they were manufacturing unapproved tests for various diseases:
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Fella didn't try very hard on the fake name. David, yes, that's American. "He", yes, that's what I am, a He. David He!
-7He is a common family name in China. Pronounced more like Huh.
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