• wahming@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This is insane. Straight out of a spy novel. Foreign power maintaining bioweapons facility in the US.

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      1 year ago

      Makes me wonder how many others there are that don’t have an illegal hose attached to the outside.

      There should be random unannounced business inspections. Even when shit isn’t as shady as this, when I worked in an ice cream factory, they knew when health inspections were coming and went into high cleaning mode immediately before. While I don’t think they would have failed if they didn’t do that, it’s not very useful to do inspections only after a business does a deep clean, so there’s no way to know.

      So random inspections that aren’t announced until the inspector is at the gate, plus offer nice rewards for people reporting a PA announcement to do some quick cleaning (or say the company has to hand over video footage for the hour before up to the hour after).

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      1 year ago

      You have no idea what you’re talking about. What they found is very typical of biotech R&D. You clearly have no experience in diagnostic/R&D biotech. please stop spreading outright lies.

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        1 year ago

        In your extensive experience, how common are unlicensed biotech R&D facilities being run in secret? And I see no reason being capable of biotech R&D would preclude it from being capable of more malicious purposes. If anything, I’d assume a significant amount of overlap between the two capabilities.

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          1 year ago

          from @Arotrios

          " So I did a bit of digging, and it’s unlikely this is a foreign agent.

          It looks like Prestige Biotech was a creditor for and acquired the assets of Universal Meditech when the company collapsed. Prestige was storing what was left of Universal in this warehouse.

          Universal Meditech was selling SARS test kits that got recalled in February of last year, which likely led to their bankruptcy. My guess is that Prestige didn’t have the available funding to properly dispose of the biohazards or care for the test subjects, ended up with a bunch of infectious mice that they couldn’t get rid of legally, and just decided to warehouse them in Fresno until they came up with a solution.

          Edit: corrected per @fne8wah’s note "

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            1 year ago

            I don’t see how it’s cheaper to maintain an entire facility and staff just to take care of unwanted items, but I concede it’s a possibility, bureaucracy and inertia being what it is.