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Illegal medical lab containing bioengineered mice and infectious agents including HIV and herpes discovered in California (www.insider.com)
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[–] 26 points 3 years ago (3 children)

My mother appears convinced it’s a Chinese medical lab. So, yea.

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  • [–] 43 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Well, because it is actually

    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

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    The article didn't mention the guy's nationality, unless I missed it.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Because being Chinese doesn’t mean you are a Chinese nationalist. It’s a pretty racist jump to make.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    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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