Posted on 02/08/2020 6:38:30 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Corona virus developed in Canada and stolen by China? reads the headline of this article from January 22, 2020. It appears to be the first of a series of such claims about the novel coronavirus, which caused an outbreak in the central Chinese city of Wuhan before spreading elsewhere in the country and around the world.
Other social media users soon shared similar versions of the claim, referring to the investigation of two Chinese virologists in Canada in 2019. Kyle Bass, an American hedge fund manager who is currently shorting Hong Kongs currency, falsely claimed on Twitter that a Chinese spy team sent pathogens to the Wuhan facility. He was retweeted 12,000 times, and screenshots of the tweet were shared on Facebook.
The claims appear to be based on a mischaracterization of August 2019 reports about a transfer of Ebola and Nipah viruses from a Canadian lab to Beijing, and an apparently separate issue involving two Chinese researchers at Canadas National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) in Winnipeg, in the central province of Manitoba.
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We’ve got a Panda-hugger here.
Because I challenge conspiracy theories for what is to me their obvious flaws does not mean I support the Chinese government or Marxism in any of its forms.
I'm inclined to look at it from what Pooh can derive from the established vector, and clearly that is:
To extrapolate Pooh's experiment with 'locking down' 1M Uyghurs, to 'locking down' 100M of his own Chine.
Certainly the PLA and the Communist Party mandarins who can afford a 2nd apartment there, knowing the capital's much greater access to doctors and medicine!
And why hasn't Pooh been seen in a week? It's easier to find Kim Pork-bun!
It’s not a real crime until the A.P. debunks it.
It’s all one big conspiracy, I tell ya! Everything! ;D
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