A story so absurd it can't be true but none-the-less appears to be true.

From FBI and CDC Slammed for “Dropping the Ball” on Illegal California Biolab Run by Chinese by Leslie Eastman.  The subheading is The lab was run by a Chinese man, Jesse Zhu, and was paid millions of dollars by China while experiments were being conducted at the Reedley facility.

The substance of the report is that China, directly or indirectly, has been running a biolab in the US without compliance or oversight of the necessary regulating authorities.

As a jaundiced reader of news there is a disturbing symmetry.  We now seem to be at the point of determining that Covid-19 was human created in the poorly regulated or supervised Wuhan lab in China via a program of investments by the NHI and other US health agencies to conduct gain-of-function virus research which was either forbidden or prohibitively regulated in the US.  And the poor procedural control at the Wuhan Lab seems to have led to the escape of the Covid-19 virus.

OK.  We (or some American actors) did that to China.  Now, Eastman is reporting that it seems like the Chinese are doing exactly the same thing to us.  Really.  Could that possibly be true?  And if true, could it possibly be true (as opposed to the consequence of contingent emergent order?)

I have seen nothing on this in the mainstream media.  Eastman reports:

Legal Insurrection readers may recall that this summer, I reported on a warehouse in Reedley, California had been the site of a massive remediation project and investigation after it was discovered to be an illegal, unlicensed laboratory full of lab mice, infectious agent samples, medical waste, and hazardous materials.

There were over 20 different infectious agents that this company was working with, ostensibly for the development of diagnostic kits. The pathogens included herpes, HIV, chlamydia, coronavirus, and hepatitis.

When that report was given, there were limited details on the entire suite of pathogens, and just how connected that laboratory was to China. The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party did its own investigation.

The 40-page report was a chilling account on the revealing serious gaps in monitoring the nature and safety of biological research, which is a serious threat to both national and global security. The Select Committee investigation also concluded the lab had very close ties to China.

The lab contained deadlier pathogens (e.g., Ebola) than the original press accounts suggested.  The lab was run by a Chinese man named Jesse Zhu, and was paid millions of dollars by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) while experiments were being conducted at the Reedley facility

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is probably better able to conduct a thorough investigation than the mainstream media but it of course is inescapably tarred by the political process.  

Read Eastman's report.  It is damning of the FBI and CDC if true.  It seems impossible to believe.  But the evidence also seems reasonably strong if only there were more enterprises interested, investigating and reporting.

And if everything in the Select Committee report is true, we are still left with this bizarre symmetry of the US and China each running bio-labs in the other's countries, either at the margin of the regulatory law or at the margin of operational effectiveness.  Or both.