Things Falling Apart: BAD SIGNS

[buzzmobile]

Maybe there's more to the story.

An illicit, Chinese-owned lab fueled conspiracy theories. But officials say it posed no danger

The discovery of an illegal medical lab in central California by a code enforcement officer has unleashed an uproar in a rural community and fed anti-Chinese rumors online.

apnews.com

Reedley officials said what has been most concerning about the discovery was finding out there is no single government entity overseeing private medical laboratories.

“What’s frustrating is that we’re focusing on these myths, bioengineered weapons and stuff like that, rather than the real issue, the lack of regulation of these private labs,” Harper said.

 

[mexweed]

the guy that owned or at least was in charge of that lab said it had absorbed a now defunct biotech company and lab that went under

it's not really conspiracy just sketchy asset dissolvement and holdings similar to what banks sometimes do

 

[CosmicGiggle]

From buzzmobile's link, it looks like the engineered mice issue was miscommunication and a translation error:

"Then on July 25, the Mid Valley Times, a local online news outlet, published a story about the lab that quoted court documents saying a representative of Prestige Biotech, which makes pregnancy and coronavirus tests sold online, told officials in March that the mice had been genetically modified to catch and carry the virus that causes COVID-19.

That was likely a miscommunication by Prestige Biotech representative Wang Zhaolin, whose English is not perfect, Harper said.

“She stated that the mice were bred, and then she hesitated and said they were modified to carry COVID,” Harper said Zhaolin told her and other officials. After the lab was shut down, she added, Wang stopped cooperating with them.

Wang’s comment prompted Reedley authorities to hire Nina Hahn, a vet formerly contracted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to examine the mice. Hahn found they had not been injected with any infectious agent and were simply used to grow COVID-19 antibody cells to make testing kits. She also determined they were not subjected to experimentation, Harper said.

But that hasn’t stopped the furor, however."

 

[buzzmobile]

do you have the "Ziggy" cartoon in your newspaper up there, Moose?

I kept a framed Ziggy cartoon in my apartment when I was single.

 

[GOT_BUD?]

Idaho’s Teacher of the Year Winner Leaving State Following Right-Wing Harassment

The educator was attacked for discussing world cultures and for recognizing the existence of the United Nations.

truthout.org

 

[buzzmobile]

This Supreme Court Term’s Grimmest Cases Share One Thing in Common

They emerged from the depths of the 5th Circuit.

slate.com

 

[buzzmobile]

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/27/the-world-is-coming-apart-at-the-seams/

 

[CosmicGiggle]

............ if it weren't for war and famine, the worlds population alone would be tipping us over the edge.

Soon come!

 

[GOT_BUD?]

That's the spirit!!

 

[HempKat]

Well there's always Bidenomics, at least we got that going for us. I mean seriously, historically low unemployment, manufacturing on the rise, lowest global post pandemic inflation rate, 4.9% growth in GDP, minimum wage on the rise. i mean sure the House of Representatives is a pure Clown Show under MAGA Republican leadership but we only have to put up with that for one more year before the Democrats take back control and Democrats have control of the Senate to stop the worst of what the House is doing

 

[armedoldhippy]

............ if it weren't for war and famine, the worlds population alone would be tipping us over the edge.

Soon come!

there will never be too many people to feed. they might even learn to like Soylent Green as a large % of their diet...

 

[Brother Nature]

They sky is falling…

 

[CosmicGiggle]

They sky is falling…

............ and that's just the beginning!

 

[buzzmobile]

............ and that's just the beginning!

Preview of coming attraction...

Scientists finally acknowledge that they got their solar cycle predictions wrong, and that we are fast approaching the sun's explosive peak

NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has released a "revised prediction" for the current solar cycle, which states that the upcoming solar maximum will arrive sooner and be more explosive than they initially forecast — as Live Science previously reported.

www.yahoo.com

 

[RobFromTX]

Well as of today Ive lost 3 old friends to Fentanyl . Man it sure makes a man feel cold getting older and watching your buddies die for all the wrong reasons. Things falling apart indeed

 

[CosmicGiggle]

The rot from within.

 

[armedoldhippy]

it sure makes a man feel cold getting older

it's odd being the same age as old people. no fentanyl deaths in my "crowd", because damn near all of them were already dead. heart attacks from coke/meth, overdoses from other drugs, three suicides (and counting), etc. i'm starting to get nervous myself. lately, every time i go outside hunting/working etc, buzzards soon start circling. i'm sure it's only a coincidence, but...

 

[RobFromTX]

it's odd being the same age as old people. no fentanyl deaths in my "crowd", because damn near all of them were already dead. heart attacks from coke/meth, overdoses from other drugs, three suicides (and counting), etc. i'm starting to get nervous myself. lately, every time i go outside hunting/working etc, buzzards soon start circling. i'm sure it's only a coincidence, but...

Its funny you mention that. I caught buzzards circling my aunts house the day she died, like they already knew. Its these heroin dealers, they keep cutting their supply with it. Shits very potent. Atleast with meth you can get a few decades in. I got a cousin thats been on it for 20 years. Hes ugly as sin but hes still alive

 

[CosmicGiggle]

suicides are the worst

 

[armedoldhippy]

they keep cutting their supply with it.

dirty bastards are using a vet drug (xylazine) in some places, which the Narcan (naloxone) opioid reversal drug WILL NOT work. nod out, then die. no coming back from heroic measures. all in search of "higher" profits...maybe the use of the death penalty needs to be expanded...