ROFL
How was Covid "shipped.."
www.bu.edu
More lies from you, not surprised
FACT CHECK: “COVID was shipped”
Claim:
COVID‑19 was “shipped” to the U.S. or elsewhere as part of a deliberate operation.
Verdict:
No credible evidence supports this. The Diamond Princess case — the article you linked — actually shows the
opposite: COVID spread through
normal person‑to‑person transmission in a confined environment, not through shipping or intentional transport.
1. What the Diamond Princess case actually shows
The Boston University Hospitality Review article describes:
- A cruise ship departing Yokohama in January 2020
- A passenger who had been in Hong Kong testing positive
- Rapid onboard spread due to shared air, close quarters, and poor containment
Nothing in the article suggests:
- intentional transport
- bioweapon activity
- “shipping” the virus to any country
It is a
case study in accidental spread, not deliberate movement.
2. Why cruise‑ship outbreaks happened
Cruise ships are ideal environments for respiratory virus spread:
- enclosed spaces
- shared ventilation
- high-density living
- long exposure times
This is why
multiple ships had outbreaks early in 2020 — not because they were “shipping COVID,” but because they were
floating petri dishes.
3. What the scientific consensus says
Authoritative sources (CDC, WHO, peer‑reviewed studies):
- COVID‑19 spread globally through travelers, not shipments.
- Early spread was driven by air travel, tourism, and community transmission, not cargo or deliberate transport.
- Cruise ships were among the first superspreader environments.
4. Why “shipped” is a biased framing
The phrase “shipped” implies:
- intentionality
- coordination
- malicious transport
None of which is supported by evidence.
The Diamond Princess article is being
misused to imply a conspiracy it does not describe.
5. Bias check
The original claim uses:
- Loaded language (“shipped”)
- Implied intent without evidence
- Cherry‑picking (using a cruise‑ship outbreak to imply global conspiracy)
- False causation (outbreak on a ship ≠ virus being shipped)
This is a
classic misinterpretation pattern: taking a real event and stapling a false motive onto it.