A potential agroterrorism averted at the University of Michigan
In yet another terrifying possibility: smuggling bioterrorism fungi to infect American crops such as wheat, corn, and barley. A Chinese National student, in the US on a student visa at the University of Michigan, has been arrested for potential agroterrorism charges. This particular fungi has the ability to cause wide-spread damage to crops, as well as infect humans and animals.
How often do events such as this occur that fly under the radar? Never detected or found?
How often are they also theories which proven not to work?
At this point, I question everything, or would like to think that I do, only to find that there will inevitably be some other thing that I took as "truth" which was actually not so true.
Covid, like this act of bioterrorism, has yet to reveal its true pathological nature. What I know to be true is that someone was arrested for carrying a biological sample. That much is true. I also know, or believe, that they are not lying when they say there was gain-of-function research being done overseas for COVID-19. I also, at times, drew crayons on cardboard boxes and claimed they were supercomputers.
Is this story being reported as a way to rationalize or to push an inevitable more overreach of government?
We also know that things introduced from foreign lands can spread around the world in other places. Like kudzu for instance. Kudzu flourishes down here in Georgia. But I don't look over it with an element of fear. I don't think that if I leave my window open at night, kudzu is gonna grow into my room, surround, and choke me.
As I child of the seventies, I was warned about the inevitable arrival of killer bees.
This isn't to say that there aren't dangers out there. I think it would be far more likely I die from poisoning, a car accident, or even getting shot than by a fungi pathogen. And I also think far more problems erupt from policies than the reasons they were enacted. Think of all the culling of animal species because of "bird flu."
I doubt that this fungi or whatever it was would be all that pervasive. Especially if it was made in a lab. Anyway, with all the chemicals they spray on the crops these days, not even a human has a chance of survival.