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TexasTowelie

(116,805 posts)
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 02:54 AM Apr 2020

Debunked COVID-19 conspiracy theory weaves a UNC medical researcher into the tale

The messages started coming a little more than a month ago, first on social media and eventually by email.

By March, Kari Debbink, a professor at Bowie State University who holds a doctorate from UNC-Chapel Hill, had received her first death threat.

The reason: She was being accused of helping create the novel coronavirus, which has caused the COVID-19 pandemic that has shut down much of the world, in a lab in North Carolina.

“To me it is just unbelievable that I would end up in a position to have someone think I could start a global pandemic,” she said in a phone interview with The News & Observer. “I reported it to the police … and they were just like, ‘What is going on?’”

Read more: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article241996426.html
(Raleigh News & Observer)

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Debunked COVID-19 conspiracy theory weaves a UNC medical researcher into the tale (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2020 OP
wow. SamBob Apr 2020 #1
Bowie State U. is actually in Bowie, Maryland Coleman Apr 2020 #2

SamBob

(61 posts)
1. wow.
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 02:59 AM
Apr 2020

just when i thought it could get worse.
First they accuse Charles Lieber of making this thing (i am sure they still do)
this is getting ridiculous.

Coleman

(941 posts)
2. Bowie State U. is actually in Bowie, Maryland
Mon Apr 20, 2020, 05:03 AM
Apr 2020

It is a Historical Black College (HBC). Just down the street from the horse track where Captain Blodgit trained.

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