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.
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Really 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.
Court 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.
Thank you for your service o7
I got as far as "Gatorade bottles labelled in Mandarin" in the summary to know that it's shotty journalism lmao
Isn't this is pretty much what Russia accused the USA of doing in Ukraine?
Yes:
- Ukraine war: Fact-checking Russia's biological weapons claims (bbc.com, March 2022)
"Russia has claimed without any evidence that biological weapons are being developed in laboratories in Ukraine with support from the United States."
Another projection? "I said it first so now you are the culprit"
The Russian state isn’t exactly a reliable source of information about Ukraine or the US. They also claimed the Ukrainian government were Nazis.
Not to mention the 3 day special military operation that is 653 days past schedule.
Well they were found to have multiple copies of The Sims in their possession.
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.
It 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.
It's absolutely not a bio weapons lab. It's a COVID test manufacturing facility, they had a horribly ran research facility that was not properly disposing of their bio waste that they used for their research. So basically they weren't properly disposing of the COVID samples that they were using for their research for creating the COVID testing equipment that they were manufacturing. There is nothing scary about except corporate and foreign disregard for rules and regulations in something pertaining to public health, this company should be barred from operating in California and the greater US as well as other WHO sponsored nations.
The story is months old and this is basically just clickbait for the conspiracy chucklefucks.
It's a COVID test manufacturing facility
Unlicensed at the city, state and federal level. The 1000 mice were bioengineered to grow COVID antibodies but (the CDC also) found "infectious agents in the refrigerators including E. coli, coronavirus, malaria, hepatitis B and C, dengue, chlamydia, human herpes, rubella and HIV." Source
I’m not sure. Was Ukraine accused of manufacturing at-home test kits outside of FDA regulations?
Does Ukraine even have an FDA?
That was a joke. That’s what the Chinese lab was doing, so if the Russians were looking for biolabs like this one, that’s what they were looking for.
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.
It'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.
The thing that really irritated me was the bit about "ooh, they're using equipment from China, that proves it!" I mean, no shit? Find me a lab, an office, a home, anything manmade in the US that doesn't have something made in China in it :/
Even in doctors offices. I had researched and bought pulse oximeters a few years ago (mainly on ali express).
You start to see the same designs with different branding as they're made by only a very few companies in China.
Since then I can recognize the same ones in use at every doctor appointment I've been at.
Oh wow. Thanks for due diligence.
Iirc, 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?
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
I’m more shocked this is AOL.com
It'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.
Almost 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:
Yeah it definitely comes across as clickbait for the tinfoil hats.
It definitely is. They go out of their way to avoid mentioning that they discovered they were making testing kits for various infectious diseases (which explains why you'd want samples of said diseases).
This information was in the original report that broke the story and the in the charging report:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/arrest-made-central-california-bio-lab-investigation
According to court documents, between December 2020 and March 2023, Zhu and others manufactured, imported, sold, and distributed hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 test kits, in addition to test kits for HIV, pregnancy, clinical urinalysis, and other conditions in the United States and China.
As I mentioned in a comment below, the word "test" appears nowhere in the "Scripps News" report.
There are still people that use AOL email addresses
And they should schedule a colonoscopy.
I 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.
“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.
Were they stealing serum? Like Bovine serum and sending it to China? That's the only guess I can reasonably make.
Looks like they were manufacturing unapproved tests for various diseases: