I tryed to read it. Really. Made it past the Trump mailing ballot conspiracy but my eyes glasses over after that.
I’ll check back later.
it’s a mini detective story with a twist that’s worth the read
I think he’s right.
BKMK
Interesting. But man the guy loves his words. Thanks for posting!
i dont really want to go to the atlantic site- what’s the main gist? The seeds were carriers of the virus too? They started arriving not long before the virus did?
Does anyone remember the vape emergency where people started having respiratory issues right b4 covid
You’re not going to tell us? I don’t want to go to the Atlantic website. Can you synthesize it?
A kudzu variant?
A ponderous piece. The author should be commended for dogged pursuit of the facts and for taking interest in all of those whom he contacted. In fact, he would make a good investigative journalist. My only complaint is that his writing stretched far beyond what is necessary in terms of length and detail. A+, however, for subject matter. No spoiler alert here. Read it and weeeeeeeep.
Also, about this same time, Americans began getting weird calls from the “Chinese Embassy.” People all over my town were getting them.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/chinese-embassy-robocall-scam-rakes-in-40m-from-victims
If these seeds are a mystery, all one needs to do is put a few in soil, water, and watch what comes up. There should be nothing hare about that.
Chinese watermelon?
What a wordy screed bout nuthin.
The Atlantic is for stuffed shirt libs, they talk about this at cocktail party’s.
Too funny.
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I would like to have whatever dumbbass who introduced wedelia to this country tried and shot.
It was just a ‘brushing scam’ where people receive unsolicited worthless items from a seller who then posts false customer reviews for a different expensive item to boost sales for it. The scam reviews then appeared to be light. I know a friend in Atlanta that received several of these mystery packages, all worthless junk. The whole scam thing didn’t reach the media until the seeds were sent and everyone thought that was scary.
I traded a cow for some magic beans on ebay a while back.
You are reading this so long that you cease to care what it actually was all about. Honestly, I’m no longer curious.
I scanned the article and read the comments here. Meh. Ordered seeds and forgot? I’m doubtful of that but whatever.
I have kept one article from the atlantic over the many years. It was about Sir Thomas Gold and the Abiogenic Origins of Hydrocarbons from back in the late 70s or early 80s.
Most articles in the atlantic are ponderous and excssively wordy. It is their style but it got us talking about it.