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DIVINEprividence

(443 posts)
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 05:56 AM Mar 2020

Neo Nazis busted for using coronavirus as bioweapon

Law enforcement has busted a group of neo Nazis who were planning to spread coronavirus through saliva and spray bottles to infect law enforcement and minority communities. I would not be surprised if these groups are actively engaged in this right now and spreading it on purpose. This is deeply disturbing. Stay safe.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/federal-law-enforcement-document-reveals-white-supremacists-discussed-using-coronavirus-as-a-bioweapon-212031308.html

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Neo Nazis busted for using coronavirus as bioweapon (Original Post) DIVINEprividence Mar 2020 OP
And Trump thinks/thought they were very fine people sakabatou Mar 2020 #1
Idiots. Dennis Donovan Mar 2020 #2
No - terrorists n/t malaise Mar 2020 #3
They would've died from it first, so dumb terrorists Dennis Donovan Mar 2020 #5
Suicidal terrorists malaise Mar 2020 #6
The Missleman denem Mar 2020 #4
He actually looks a little like Trump, -150 lbs, dark hair, natural complexion captain queeg Mar 2020 #7
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun djacq Mar 2020 #8
Thank you for being a voice of reason. pazzyanne Mar 2020 #11
Dumbasses. Grokenstein Mar 2020 #9
While racist trump uses slurs to incite with publicly, duforsure Mar 2020 #10
Don't forget that tRump is offering help to North Korea. pazzyanne Mar 2020 #12
if they did & police were able to prove it in court... subana Mar 2020 #13

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
2. Idiots.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 06:19 AM
Mar 2020

Actually, this is good info to have - it underscores that these Nazi's aren't rocket scientists.

Now, *this* is a Nazi rocket scientist:



djacq

(1,634 posts)
8. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:25 AM
Mar 2020

von Braun was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Germany and a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the United States.

Unlike Trump, von Braun recognized and regretted his part in the cogwheels of white supremacy. He even confronted George Wallace;

“The era belongs to those who can shed the shackles of the past"


[link:https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chasing-moon-von-braun-record-on-civil-rights/|

As a Space Professional and an African American, I frown upon, alongside the late von Braun, for his time in Nazi Germany but I highly respect his contribution to the United States space program.

All I ask is for my fellow DU members to please be careful who you loop in with white supremacy and Trump's emboldening that belief.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
11. Thank you for being a voice of reason.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:19 AM
Mar 2020

When I read this OP my first thought was with out von Braun we would not have the space program we have today. People need to research history so they do not spread disinformation.

Grokenstein

(5,725 posts)
9. Dumbasses.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:35 AM
Mar 2020
https://www.gocomics.com/matt-bors/2020/03/17

I'm not sure if MAGA Hat Dumbass is defiantly licking everything in order to spread it or to catch it, but he deserves to have his head staved in regardless.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
10. While racist trump uses slurs to incite with publicly,
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:11 AM
Mar 2020

And instigate his people towards others now. He's intentionally doing this knowing it incites people against this group of people.

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)
12. Don't forget that tRump is offering help to North Korea.
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:22 AM
Mar 2020

He hasn't helped this nation, but he is writing letters to Kim offering help. Maybe we should let him, if he helps them like he helped us.

subana

(586 posts)
13. if they did & police were able to prove it in court...
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 09:01 AM
Mar 2020

...I think it would also be a crime! Of course it would be difficult to prove. I saw a show once where a woman had broken up with a man who was a doctor. To get back at her, he injected her with HIV tainted blood. The court called it criminal transmission.

In 1994 Schmidt used a sample of blood taken from one of his HIV-positive patients to inject into his lover and former colleague, Janice Trahan, infecting her with HIV. Six months later Ms. Trahan, a nurse, was diagnosed with HIV. Convinced that Schmidt had infected her after a suspiciously fleeting late-night visit to give her a "Vitamin B" injection, Ms. Trahan had her ex-husband and former boyfriends tested. All were shown to be negative for HIV—results which led Lafayette, Louisiana police to further investigate her claims.

HIV is a fairly fragile virus, and lasts for only a few hours outside the human body. Detectives examining hospital records found that Schmidt had taken blood from one patient that night, but had never sent the blood to the lab. The absence of laboratory testing identification references against this patient's name led to police visiting the man who readily disclosed that he had AIDS and that he had been called in for a blood test by Schmidt on the evening in question. The forensic challenge at that point was to match the DNA from the virus itself from the patient to the victim, something that had never been done before. HIV DNA was collected from the victim, from the putative patient source, and from thirty-two other unrelated, HIV-positive individuals living in the same metropolitan area. Scientists concluded that of all the samples they tested, the two viruses' DNA from the victim and the patient matched almost exactly, even with HIV's potential to mutate very rapidly.

It was further disclosed at trial that the victim had also acquired Hepatitis C around the same time. Evidence from Schmidt's patient records showed that a blood sample was taken from a patient with Hepatitis C the day before the HIV-infected sample was taken. The Hepatitis C sample was similarly not matched with any laboratory references - these two were the only such omissions found in Schmidt's patient records.

In 1998 Schmidt was sentenced to 50 years for attempted second degree murder.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Schmidt
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