Posted on 07/17/2021 9:13:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Why did so many Americans receive strange packages they didn’t think they’d ordered?
Sid miller, the Texas agriculture commissioner, sat atop his stallion Smokey and faced the camera. It was Saturday, August 1, 2020. Miller had a message to share.
“Good morning, patriots,” Miller began, raising the coiled lasso in his right hand by way of greeting. “I don’t know about you, but I’m getting tired of all these surprises coming out of China. First it was the Chinese virus, then we had the murder hornets, then we had to close the embassy in Houston because of espionage … Now we’ve got all these mystery seeds coming in in the mail.”
It was the seeds that Miller wanted to speak about. By then, news of the seeds had been circulating for several days. Packets were turning up at homes across the United States; residents of every state would eventually report receiving them. Their address labels and Customs declarations indicated that they had been sent from China. The contents were usually described as an item of jewelry—something like “rose stud earrings”—but inside would be a small packet of unidentified seeds. There was no evident reason why particular people were receiving particular seeds, or why people were receiving seeds at all.
Miller advised anyone who received one of these packages to handle it with extreme care. “Treat them like they’re radioactive,” he said. As Smokey flicked his tail, the commissioner laid out what he considered to be the worst-case scenario: “My greatest fear is that someone will open these packages up—open these seeds up—and be infected with a new virus of some kind.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Such a long article... Problem one with brushing theory (or substituting Amazon order theory) - they weren’t live tracking numbers on the packages. Which means no successful brushing scam, no successful replacement Amazon order theory.
I honestly suspect that it was part of an elaborate method of theft from postal facilities of parcel returns.
Which honestly was far too elaborate with too many steps to justify the effort. Like someone got a brilliant idea and forgot to figure out how to make money doing it.
Or... Amazon could be gaslighting people, placing legit looking orders in people’s purchase history, even though the people never ordered them. Then, the people create a fake memory to explain the order being in the history.
That stuff is forbidden in my world.
The guy who has right of way on my lane sprayed the fence line with it twice and both times, one of my goats died not shortly after, with the same horrible symptoms.
It was terrible and despite having a good pasture, they were always poking through the fence and eating the weeds outside of it.
:(
Yeah, that too.
:D
/say...was that shrub *always* there? I could swear it was on the other side of the yard, last week
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