[justaguyonline]

I was confused by this post because I'd never heard of a Fort Detrick before but I found these articles explain well what's happening: [1]

Domestic propaganda push in china is leaking externally, including posts by a non-existing Swiss scienist that has the Swiss embassy protesting. [2]

With the Wuhan lab theory we at least have independent confirmation of gain of function research at the lab and knowledge that covid virus fragments were sequenced from the area before the real outbreak started.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58273322 [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58168588

[sschueller]

I guess the Chinese didn't think Switzerland is able to check who exists and who doesn't but the Swiss are quite on top of that.

[Leary]

So why did Fort Detrick shut down in 2019?

[x3n0ph3n3]

Wikipedia says they failed a safety inspection. Do you believe something different? It's since been re-opened with limited capacity after retraining.

[geofft]

Wikipedia says they failed a safety inspection for breaches of containment. What were they failing to contain and what was the effect of the breach?

I mean, the argument of the comment at the top of this thread seems pretty straightforward to me: if it's a norm to explain what's going on at biological research labs with links to the military, then that norm applies to everyone, not just China. The world deserves to have a detailed and open accounting of what went on, even if the accounting is "Nothing relevant." And in a practical sense, if the US abides by the norm that public reports on military bio-warfare labs are expected, it gives the US a much better bargaining position when asking other people to abide by that norm.

[a0-prw]

Because they were not disposing of dangerous waste according to protocol.

Also the CDC limited information about the shutdown due to "national security concerns".

Archived NYT article from August 6 2019:

https://archive.ph/oosEz

[xkeysc0re]

They failed an inspection and mishandled waste byproducts - but also after an "unknown" pneumonia-like respiratory disease starting spreading in the area around D.C

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/health-officials-to...

https://patch.com/virginia/burke/another-respiratory-outbrea...

[pyinstallwoes]

That's not weird at all...