Posted on 10/04/2021 10:04:48 AM PDT by TigerLikesRoosterNew
Chinese media: Maine lobster shipment was ‘Pandora’s box,’ spreading covid
Guest Author:Mark Godfrey
Reports appearing across China’s tightly controlled media suggest the origin of covid-19 in the country came in 2019 via a shipment of lobster from Maine.
“In November 2019, a shipment of frozen Maine [lobster] arrived in Wuhan, and shortly afterwards several people working in the market fell very ill with a strange pneumonia,” noted an article published this week in the New Observer, a state-owned periodical.
The article suggests the shipment from Maine was a “Pandora’s box” that spread the virus around China. It also states the “American side has not owned up to the origins of the virus.”
The Sina news portal – one of the most-read on China’s state-controlled internet – reported on the issue in more detail, suggesting a shipment from Maine consisting of 55 boxes of chilled Boston lobster weighing 823.4 kilograms arrived in Shanghai Pudong Airport on Nov. 11, 2019, aboard a China Eastern Airlines flight was then forwarded to 26 customers across the country. One of the customers was an unnamed vendor at the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, where the virus was first reported in late 2019, after an initial cover-up by local government.
The Sina article includes several maps of the Huanan market, which link the Wuhan vendor with concentrations of covid-19 infections within the market. The article also includes what it says are quotes from the report of the World Health Organization study trip to China, one of which states that “research shows that the new coronavirus can survive for a long time in conditions of frozen food, packaging, and cold-chain products.”
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Not even a well thought out creative lie.
I live in Maine.
Now I’ve heard everything.
I’m going to tell everyone I know in the lobster business about this ridiculous story and ask them NOT to sell their products to these ahole ChiComs.
No kidding, I live in Maine also. What a crock. Am I supposed to believe someone in the Wuhan market is paying $200 a pound for lobster, laughable.
So went from bats, to wet market, to Maine lobsters where COVID never existed and there are no bio labs in the state?
Actually not correct. Jackson Labs which is the worlds largest purveyor of lab mice is based in Bar Harbor Maine. There are also several other bio industries in Maine. IDDEX which specializes in animal testing products is based in Westbrook Maine. Separately, Abbott Labs has an operation in Scarborough Maine that is producing Covid testing products.
Those are just some that I can think of off the top of my head.
As to the premise of this story, there is no such thing as Boston Lobster. All lobster in the waters of the east coast of the US are of the Homarus americanus genus of lobsters and are colloquially known as Maine Lobster. It is mainly still available off the coast of Maine because we have maintained responsible fishing practices for the last 100 plus years. It has been mostly fished out south of Maine.
Lobsters are naturally dark red/green. They become red after boiling, steaming or baking for eating.
fatchild6502002: I’ve got $100 that say Berlin_Freeper will believe this report. LOL.I don't believe it so pay up.
lEsbiANTHESPiANgYmnASTicMIDgET: Those guys in the Berlin CIA annex will believe anything.People might think lEsbiANTHESPiANgYmnASTicMIDgET is joking, but he has actually posted that I am the "Berlin CIA" a dozen times.
Ok I’ll bite on that, but Maine doesn’t have any level 4 Bio Weapoms labs do they like they have in Wuhan?
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