The county also discovered nearly 1,000 bioengineered mice. Wang Zhaolin, a representative of Prestige Biotech – the company operating the lab – told county investigators that the mice were genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus
I mean if you don’t want conspiracy theories to spread then don’t make them true to begin with
Pretty sure one of the Chinese ran USA labs were caught sending samples of contagious diseases back to China via standard DHL type packages. This was before COVID.
I actually noticed that when searching for “prestige biotech” (the name of the company) pretty much all the conservative media already state that it is Chinese linked. The weird thing is that they state it as a fact without explaining how they arrived to this conclusion.
I mean, it very well might be, but tell me how you arrived to that conclusion.
Chinese listed owner. Chinese representative. Mysterious purpose with unknown source of funds. Not too hard to connect the dots.
Edit: Apparently people don’t realise Chinese can refer to ethnicity as well as nationality. Yes, it would be ideal if we had different terms for the two.
Buddy, see my username? Yeah, that’s a Chinese name. I of all people know exactly what the difference is between Chinese ethnicity and Chinese nationality.
With that said, the majority of Chinese business people have some connection or other to China, be it family, business, or otherwise. Combine that with the context here of mysterious purpose (but probably bioweapons), unknown funding source and complete lack of any commercial purpose, etc etc, and it’s not a hard conclusion to draw.
It’s shady practices like this that fuel conspiracy theories and erode public trust in science.
My mother appears convinced it’s a Chinese medical lab. So, yea.
Well, because it is actually
I mean if you don’t want conspiracy theories to spread then don’t make them true to begin with
Wow… I mean I know why that makes sense, but still, wow…
Pretty sure one of the Chinese ran USA labs were caught sending samples of contagious diseases back to China via standard DHL type packages. This was before COVID.
I actually noticed that when searching for “prestige biotech” (the name of the company) pretty much all the conservative media already state that it is Chinese linked. The weird thing is that they state it as a fact without explaining how they arrived to this conclusion.
I mean, it very well might be, but tell me how you arrived to that conclusion.
Chinese listed owner. Chinese representative. Mysterious purpose with unknown source of funds. Not too hard to connect the dots.
Edit: Apparently people don’t realise Chinese can refer to ethnicity as well as nationality. Yes, it would be ideal if we had different terms for the two.
The article didn’t mention the guy’s nationality, unless I missed it.
Exactly, have they said that, I wouldn’t have problem with it. The articles that I looked at weren’t mentioning anything beyond it is Chinese linked.
@agent_flounder @wahming
Exactly. Assumptions rarely lead to facts.
I used the term Chinese to refer to ethnicity, not nationality.
Why would ethnicity matter in this context?
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Reading.
Both the owner and representative of the company are Chinese, so why wouldn’t she think that?
Also, how many other countries would be interested in maintaining a bioweapons facility in the US?
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Because being Chinese doesn’t mean you are a Chinese nationalist. It’s a pretty racist jump to make.
Buddy, see my username? Yeah, that’s a Chinese name. I of all people know exactly what the difference is between Chinese ethnicity and Chinese nationality.
With that said, the majority of Chinese business people have some connection or other to China, be it family, business, or otherwise. Combine that with the context here of mysterious purpose (but probably bioweapons), unknown funding source and complete lack of any commercial purpose, etc etc, and it’s not a hard conclusion to draw.
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It’s sad you have to identify yourself as Chinese in order to make this statement.
Like we can’t judge a statement based on it’s content alone.
You speak as if this is common. The reason this is news is because it’s random AF.
I didn’t mean to imply it’s common, just that it’s particularly damaging.
Just like trans athletes in sports. Which are like what? 3 people?
It makes for good headlines and that’s why it’s news and gives the rightwing conspiracy nuts more fuel for the next big idiotic thing.
Only to people who wouldn’t trust science regardless of this event.