[AequitasOmnibus]

> Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.

This fact alone shocks the conscience. Criminal charges should fly swift and fierce against everyone involved in this illegal operation.

What’s horrifying is that this biolab was found on a fluke. How many more covert biolabs is China operating in secret in the U.S.?

[Paul-Craft]

Cool your jets there, Maverick. It's not even clear from the article what was illegal about the lab, much less that China was operating it. You can't just say "illegal lab," "COVID-19 virus," and some random Chinese name and jump to those conclusions.

[yumraj]

Occam’s Razor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

Also: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/officials-believe-fresn...

An investigation found the tenant was Prestige BioTech, a company registered in Nevada and unlicensed for business in California. City officials spoke with Xiuquin Yao, who was identified as the company president, through emails included in the court documents.

Yao told officials that Prestige BioTech moved assets belonging to a defunct company, Universal Meditech Inc., to the Reedley warehouse from Fresno after UMI went under. Prestige Biotech was a creditor to UMI and identified as its successor, according to court documents.

Officials were unable to get any California-based address for either company except for the previous Fresno location from which UMI had been evicted.

"The other addresses provided for identified authorized agents were either empty offices or addresses in China that could not be verified," court documents said.

[georgeplusplus]

It's pretty compelling at this point that a chinese lab had a significant undertaking in the development and spread of covid and if you're looking for a 100% undeniable explanation it doesn't exist because that opportunity to investigate is long gone and the Chinese gov forbade anyone from doing a meaningful investigation. Also complicating the truth coming out is that the USA likely played a part through NIH funding the Wuhan lab.

Why anyone acts like it's a conspiracy at this point is pretty funny. This is certainly the time to be skeptical.

[topato]

Whenever I see a company using Prestige in their name, I can't help but think back to the hit Hollywood movie 'Stepbrothers', and the titular brothers' fictional company, Prestige Worldwide

[whimsicalism]

> How many more covert biolabs is China operating in secret in the U.S.?

Is the company even Chinese?

[BugsJustFindMe]

> Is the company even Chinese?

Seems like yes but with a shady trail of dark corners.

> Yao told officials that Prestige BioTech moved assets belonging to a defunct company, Universal Meditech Inc., to the Reedley warehouse from Fresno after UMI went under. Prestige Biotech was a creditor to UMI and identified as its successor, according to court documents.

> Officials were unable to get any California-based address for either company except for the previous Fresno location from which UMI had been evicted.

> "The other addresses provided for identified authorized agents were either empty offices or addresses in China that could not be verified," court documents said.

[inconceivable]

so the guy with the super duper chinese sounding name who works for the company literally just told the investigators they were doing a bunch of illegal super-villain shit there like genetically modifying animals to spread covid? like, he just said "yeah, we're doing that." ... what?

this is all according to some podunk newspaper called the san joaquin valley sun, of course.

sorry, i don't believe this for a microsecond.