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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by generj on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:38PM (#29597325)
How would that even work? There isn’t a gene for Chinese citizenship that would impact any disease or illness.

…I’m unfortunately assuming the poster is making a bad-faith reference to COVID-19. Some conspiracy theorists have been labeling it a bio weapon and ignoring the deaths from the initial outbreak.

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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by vaxman on Friday December 31, 2021 @08:14AM (#29747691)
> How would that even work?

https://youtu.be/g1L3spfQZc4

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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by CRConrad on Monday December 20, 2021 @08:13PM (#29632636)
No, AFAICR this predates SARS-CoV-19. And it works by targeting ethnicity, not citizenship.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29632621

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Re:President Daniels responds to Chinese student's harassment by deafsquid69 on Friday December 17, 2021 @03:19PM (#29597833)
It's not a new concept https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_bioweapon
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