Re <<99.9% irrefutable ... Where does 'testing' fit in?>>
It is a matter of mathematics, that 99.9% is not 100%, and there are plenty of folks believing in a lot of 99.9%s, and the ones believing the loudest are the same that believed in rice-dimensioned spy-chips per Bloomberg reports multiple times quoting all sorts of experts. Much like uranium stockpile in Iraq, Taliban hands in 911, etc etc etc
Science shall settle what rule cannot, I have 99.9 faith, but am unsure to 0.01%.
As to <<CoVid>>, am agnostic, because (i) it indubitably came from somewhere somehow, and (ii) no one so far knows 100% where it came from and how.
As to <<testing>>, China is one one the very few domains that compulsory-test for antibodies / antigens due to Covid, starting from as early as manufacturing of test kids would allow, and so China knows more approximately where and when and how many folks affected. The apparent China breakout of CoVid was December 2019. Wuhan was locked-down 18 January 2020. One can surmise that CoVid was going around in China latest October 2019 at get-go of Wuhan military Olympics attended by US Army personnel.
The other domains so far are not, or are refusing to, or are not releasing the back-testing data of CoVid trails in donated blood supply and in samples taken for other study purposes, except very few mentions. Another this path of investigation has already shown that the blood collected at earlier times before obvious Wuhan breakout are tainted with CoVid telltales.
Unfortunately the USA did not test the US Army athletes who attended the Wuhan games in urgent time and so their blood can tell us nothing much, unless of course they provided samples before they went to Wuhan and such have neither been disposed of nor hidden away.
In the meantime, very exciting as lawfare progresses another corner on another front, at the end of which much falsehood should see plenty of sunlight, about everything from cotton to elections, providing much material for 2022 / 2024 and the milling of time in between, before, and after.
The good thing about lies is that repeating often enough do not make them true, even when they are repeated by MSM, who think spy-chips cannot be detected by ocular inspection.
bloomberg.com
Hong Kong’s Esquel Sues U.S. Over Inclusion on China Blacklist
Karen Leigh
6 July 2021, 23:30 GMT+8
Hong Kong apparel giant Esquel Group said it is suing the U.S. government for what it called the “erroneous” blacklisting of a subsidiary, saying it had been “falsely implicated” in the use of forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region.
The unit, Changji Esquel Textile Co. Ltd., was added to the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List during former President Donald Trump’s administration. That designation prohibits American firms from doing business with listed companies without first obtaining a government license.
Esquel said this move was made with no “supporting evidence” and that its factories in Xinjiang, where China has been accused of widespread human rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs, do not use forced labor.
Closely-held Esquel Group is one of dozens of companies that have been ensnared by growing tensions between the U.S. and China over issues that span trade, human rights and territorial disputes. The far western region of Xinjiang produces more than 80% of China’s cotton, and the U.S. wants companies to stop doing business there. China denies that it is mistreating Uyghurs and maintains that it is fighting separatism and religious extremism.
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Major international retailers including Hennes & Mauritz AB, Nike Inc. and Fast Retailing Co. have faced a dilemma over whether to embrace cotton from the region and be attacked in the West, or reject it and risk a boycott by Chinese consumers. Statements from H&M, Nike and Adidas AG declaring they won’t use Xinjiang cotton have incited retaliation in China, including a plunge in sales on e-commerce platforms and forced store closures.
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Esquel Group’s suit comes after the U.S. in May agreed to remove Xiaomi Corp. from a blacklist after the Chinese smartphone giant sued the American government. The Defense Department under Trump had issued an order designating Xiaomi a Communist Chinese Military Company, which would have led to its de-listing from U.S. exchanges.
A spokesman for the Commerce Department said that it doesn’t comment on litigation.
Esquel Group said in its statement that audits by multiple third-party independent auditors using internationally recognized industry standards had involved site visits to facilities in Xinjiang and interviews with Uyghur workers.
“In every instance, the audits found no evidence of forced labor or coercion,” the company said. “Further, the Changji Esquel facility is highly automated and technologically advanced, and it requires highly skilled workers -- the inverse of a business model reliant on underpaid labor.”
The Entity List inclusion has caused “devastating reputational and commercial damage” to the company, it said.
Esquel Group said in a September 2020 post on its website that by the end of 2019 it had a team of more than 1,300 people in Xinjiang including more than 400 Uyghurs. Nearly 15% of its Uyghur team members had worked at the company for more than 10 years, it said.
A United Nations assessment has said anywhere from tens of thousands to upwards of 1 million Uyghurs have been detained in Xinjiang, and global outcry against Beijing’s crackdown has grown, with U.S. officials accusing China of committing genocide.
— With assistance by Peter Martin, and Eric Martin
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