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Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali

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Re: Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali

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Cool your jets there, Maverick. It's not even clear from the article what was illegal about the lab, much less that China was operating it. You can't just say "illegal lab," "COVID-19 virus," and some random Chinese name and jump to those conclusions.

Occam’s Razor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor Also: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officials-believe-fresn... An investigation found the tenant was Prestige BioTech, a company registered in Nevada and unlicensed for business in California. City officials spoke with Xiuquin Yao, who was identified as the company president, through emails included in the court documents. Yao told officials that P…

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Re: Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali

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Occam’s Razor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor Also: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officials-believe-fresn... An investigation found the tenant was Prestige BioTech, a company registered in Nevada and unlicensed for business in California. City officials spoke with Xiuquin Yao, who was identified as the company president, through emails included in the court documents. Yao told officials that P…

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If Occam’s razor leads to a conspiracy theory then Occam’s Razor has lost all meaning.

Which unfortunately has happened at least on the internet. It’s literally become the new literally :-)

Re: Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali

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> Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun. This fact alone shocks the conscience. Criminal charges should fly swift and fierce against everyone involved in this illegal operation. What’s horrifying is that this…

so the guy with the super duper chinese sounding name who works for the company literally just told the investigators they were doing a bunch of illegal super-villain shit there like genetically modifying animals to spread covid? like, he just said "yeah, we're doing that." ... what?

this is all according to some podunk newspaper called the san joaquin valley sun, of course.

sorry, i don't believe this for a microsecond.

Re: Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali

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> Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun. This fact alone shocks the conscience. Criminal charges should fly swift and fierce against everyone involved in this illegal operation. What’s horrifying is that this…

Cool your jets there, Maverick. It's not even clear from the article what was illegal about the lab, much less that China was operating it. You can't just say "illegal lab," "COVID-19 virus," and some random Chinese name and jump to those conclusions.

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Re: Illegal lab containing bioengineered mice infected with HIV and herpes in Cali

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Explain?

OP's probably being ironic.

I know people personally who'd say something like that unironically so was hoping I'd be able to pick that type of person's brain
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