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Robin's avatar

Frightening. Makes one wonder if our whole NIH & investigative agencies are incompetent, corrupt, or owned by CCP. None of these options bode well for the future of America.

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Shiven Chabria's avatar

I can't speculate on the exact cause for the multi-level failure any more than I already did in the essay. But at the very least we had a swiss cheese model systems failure. Was there collusion by those charged with protecting the nation? We don't have concrete evidence to say so,.

Regardless, I agree that it's a foreboding of more such things to come.

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John's avatar

Our State and Federal governments hate us, but they love criminals, clandestine biolabs and the CCP longtime.

I am sharing this widely. Great reporting.

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Shiven Chabria's avatar

Much appreciated, John.

Please do share it.

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Fr. John Jimenez's avatar

Thank you for reporting on this in such a thorough way

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Shiven Chabria's avatar

Thank you for reading and thank you for sharing.

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original poster's avatar

And some people are surprized that such occurrences fuel conspiracy theories? How could they not?

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Ferg ferguson's avatar

Great work…real journalism

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Shiven Chabria's avatar

Thank you. Please feel free to share it far and wide.

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Archie O'Michaels's avatar

"flooding the country with fake COVID and pregnancy tests in the middle of a pandemic?"

one of the conspiracy theories during Covid was that the tests themselves where giving people Covid and or making them generally sick

if this operation was creating or distributing Covid kits etc god know what we could of gotten

Ebola? Aids? how is this not an act of war?

If Russian intelligence where busted doing this we would of nuked Moscow by now

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Shiven Chabria's avatar

Indeed. I consider it a stroke of pure luck that things did not turn out way more heinously.

More importantly, nobody really knows how many such operations are currently in existence undetected and plotting far more nefarious things.

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Archie O'Michaels's avatar

medical supply chains from China (who literally hate us and to dominate us) is possibly the very worst insanity in the Illegal Republic https://www.illegalrepublic.com/

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Shiven Chabria's avatar

I've written extensively on both our pharmaceutical supply chain and the flow of fentanyl using Chinese made precursors.

Some of it is on my substack. Be sure to read it.

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