China’s bioweapon spy story that never was

 https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/chinas-bioweapon-spy-story-that-never-was/

As the story goes, in wintry Winnipeg, Canada, at a nondescript laboratory hidden on Arlington St., Chinese scientists working at the facility managed to secure and steal a sample of the deadly novel coronavirus.

The contagion was allegedly smuggled out of Canada, and taken to a lab in Wuhan, China, where scientists there studied it carefully and worked toward creating a biological weapon.

Alas, somehow, the virus escaped … spreading slowly at first. Unleashed on the public, it would infect thousands and kill many people, sparking a worldwide panic and spread to 30 countries.

That is roughly a storyline that has spread online.

Unfortunately, there is a big problem with this story – it didn’t happen. Let me repeat that, it didn’t happen.