At the same time that Trump was downplaying the danger, white supremacist and Nazi groups were planning to bioweaponize coronavirus by spreading it to police and in non-white neighbourhoods, according to an intelligence brief obtained by Yahoo News.
You can see the brief, authored by the Federal Protective Service, a branch of HHS, on Scribd here. If anyone qualified can show evidence that it’s fake, please do so in the comments.
The idea, if a member of these groups contracts the virus, is for them to:
There was also some mention, according to the brief, of targeting public places in general.
The brief is dated Feb. 17-21 and sourced from a white supremacist channel entitled “Telegram.” Users on the channel commented that anyone who contracted the disease would be obligated to commit attempted murder by these methods, and some volunteered.
An analyst’s comment suggests that it is likely as members of these groups have traveled abroad to borrow foreign terrorists’ methods before, so would likely travel to China to contract the virus. A sort of epidemiological suicide mission, you might say. (Note this was written when the main locus of the global outbreak was in China, and borders had not yet been closed.)
There is no bottom to right-wing depravity.