Remember those mystery seeds from China? Conspiracy loons say they were Covid bioweapons

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Matt Karolian
@mkarolian
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Oct 15, 2021
Oh this is a new one, on @tiktok_us someone is making the case that the random seeds from China (remember that?) were actually bio weapons containing COVID-19.

TikTok continues to be a disinformation cesspool.

iain
@iainvention
That’s terrible. The real story behind that weird seed mystery is great. An all timer. In almost all cases those seeds were… seeds that those people had ordered but forgot about ordering.

The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds
Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?
theatlantic.com
12:03 PM · Oct 15, 2021

No paywall
https://archive.is/i5NNV

[Harker]

1. That's nuts.

Everyone knows they're the first wave of an invading army of things from Outer Space.

[ChazInAz]

4. Triffids.

[Harker]

5. That would be bad enough...

but I was thinking of this guy...

[ChazInAz]

6. Eight-foot tall carrot.

James Arness' first big role.

[Harker]

8. Yep!

It featured a couple of unusual attributes in overlapping dialogue and chilled sets, so that the actors' breath would be visible in some scenes.

The voice dubbed in for Arness was that that of a cat played slowly, and in reverse.

A hokey old 1951er, but I like it.

[Mad_Machine76]

9. Not nuts

seeds

[Harker]

10. Some nuts are seeds.

There are, as you've surely noted, plenty of other assorted nuts around here.

[Mad_Machine76]

12. My comment was made as a joke

[Harker]

14. So was mine.

We should team up.

[Harker]

7. That's more useful than anything I ever got.

I knew all along I should've gone for the x-ray specs.

[Champp]

3. And conspiracy pantaloons say the seeds are the cure that Q has sent

as Geehover once sent manna unto the desert, so hath Q sent stuff* unto us, the frothing, weak-willing, knee-knocking, obedient flock of RepubliQon Tru BeeLeevers.


* stupid, dangerous, fundamentally unAmerican and undemocratic lies, twists, bullshit, and evil stinking crapola stuff.

[MiniMe]

11. I got some of those seeds. I can guarantee that I didn't order it and forget

[marie999]

13. Our government has been warry of certain countries for at least 55 years.

In 1966 I was given a classified document supposedly from the Department of Agriculture to translate. It was a scientific paper on a certain disease of a certain crop. Looking at the date might give you an idea of what it was about.