https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1399813030066724865?s=20

I dream with a big pyre of these "people"

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The lab leak conspiracy is pure bourgeois protection. If they could they would have secret labs developing viruses to be weaponised against enemies of the empire.

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      [America] would have secret labs developing viruses

      Bro, we do. America's entire bio"defense" industry, which including the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases headed by Fauci (not even joking when I say 👁️), is also a bio-offense industry, analogous to the DoD.

      It's openly acknowledged that the US conducts gain-of-function research to make viruses more infectious or virulent. They claim it's for innocent science and immunology and nothing more, but we're smarter than that. The US has never allowed itself to be inspected for compliance with bioweapons treaties.

      Oncogenic viruses are a real thing and they have great potential as covert assassination weapons. I believe that's how they killed Hugo Chavez.

        • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          It's just a type of virus. HPV is one example.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus

          There are other ways to weaponize cancer for sure, such as radioactive isotopes. It may even be as simple as injecting someone with metastatic cells. I've never asked someone with medical training whether that's feasible, but it seems pretty straightforward to me. In Oliver Stone's JFK there is a deleted scene in which prison guards inject Jack Ruby with cancer.

          I'm not an expert on oncoviruses. I should have said it "could" be how they got Chavez.

          • sysgen [none/use name,they/them]
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            3 years ago

            The metastatic cells would have to be immunolgically identical for them not to be immediately destroyed by the immune system.

            • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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              3 years ago

              I see; thanks for the explanation. It's just something I wondered about. Sounds infeasible in that case.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      If they could they would have secret labs developing viruses to be weaponised against enemies of the empire

      I would love working developing fungal strains targetting US cash crops. Sadly, that's not the case.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Did you know that "Chinese gangs" used armies of drones to spread swine flu over Chinese hog farms during Trump's trade war with China? 👁️

          • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/chinese-pig-farm-jams-drone-crooks-spreading-african-swine-fever-n1105631

              • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                The CIA did the same shit to Cuba during the Cold War, albeit without the drone part obviously. Cuba had long maintained that the CIA deliberately introduced and spread infectious diseases among crops and livestock as well as trying to get people with infectious diseases to travel in Cuba, and recently declassified documents prove that they did in fact do just that.