[Chunga85]

I know I’d be mad if other countries were operating clandestine bio-terror labs on our border.

[flamberge]

“will do everything we can”

Means they will do absolutely nothing.

Truthfully, there is nothing substantial they can do. They just don't want to admit that.

They have little or nothing of value to the Russians which might be used in trade to get those men returned alive.

[FarCenter]

A brilliant scientist was mysteriously fired from a Winnipeg virus lab. No one knows why.

She was escorted away by the RCMP more than two years ago, sparking international controversy. What really happened to Xiangguo Qiu?

Xiangguo Qiu would seem an unlikely character in a tale of international intrigue. A mild-mannered scientist who won accolades for her work fighting the deadly Ebola virus inside Canada’s most secure laboratory, her career was cut short in July 2019, when she and her husband were escorted out of her Winnipeg lab by the RCMP. Since then, she has become a central figure in a major political battle in Ottawa and the star of international conspiracy theories. She has been accused of selling state secrets, contributing to a clandestine Chinese bioweapons program, and even of helping to create COVID-19.

The story of Xiangguo Qiu is still shrouded in mystery, but former colleagues have told Maclean’s her case has more to do with tensions and warring priorities inside the lab than with anything more nefarious. Qiu’s own signature accomplishment, they say, offers some clues as to exactly where it all went wrong.

A medical doctor and biologist, Qiu joined the National Microbiology Lab (NML)—run by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)—in 2003. Much of her work at NML focused on Ebola. There, she led a project that hoped to prove that lab-grown “monoclonal” antibodies could stop the virus from infecting healthy cells—if their strategy worked, it could be a huge breakthrough in treating other viral infections, from HIV to other coronaviruses to who knows what else. (Her husband, Keding Cheng, also a biologist at the lab, helped the project on occasion.)

https://www.macleans.ca/longforms/winnipeg-virus-lab-scientist/

[Alter Kaker]

I know I’d be mad if other countries were operating clandestine bio-terror labs on our border.

You actually believe that crap?

[Scrambler Bob]

I know I’d be mad if other countries were operating clandestine bio-terror labs on our border.
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You might be hinting at Fentanyl from Mexico.

Maybe?