notice how single men are "incels" and "losers" and media calls it "epidemic of single men", "momma's boys"... it's never "men are enjoying their glorious freedom" type of thing. it's always shaming and hating that you dared to leave the plantation and live your own life the way you want to live it and put yourself first, before anyone and anything else. you are supposed to be a dummy, opinion-less, feeling-less wage slave and an appliance and a retirement plan for the women. never forget that.
The story I've heard is it was created in NC as a part of MIL research...
... then Gain of Function funding was supposed to have stopped, so it was moved via an intermediary to Wuhan for continued research, and then "got loose".
BTW, this has been a standard playbook in many domains. If something is illegal in the USA, whether GOV or CORP, that effort is exported to another country where it is not illegal. If BIZ, maybe there's a cost benefit.
It's a scummy practice.
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