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Yeah. But the Chinese masters touring the facility a few weeks before the outbreak had absolutely nothing to do with it!

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null and void :" Yeah. But the Chinese masters touring the facility a few weeks before the outbreak had absolutely nothing to do with it! "

But, remember, this travel by corporate officials occurred weeks after Trump cancelled airline transport from China.
How did they get there ?
Private, or corporate plane ?

Smithfield corporate had already notified that there would be a pork and meat shortage since they were shipping more product to China.
Last year, China already had a known pork virus that killed more than 1/3 of their new-born piglets, creating a shortage.
Now we have a coronavirus that impacts production workers and employees in processing plants, resulting in shut-down.