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.
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.
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
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.
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:
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He is a common family name in China. Pronounced more like Huh.
