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>>I decided to reimmerse myself in the giddy anxiety of last summer. I planned to speak with some of those who had received the packages, dissect the hullabaloo around them, and construct the definitive account of the seeds-from-China moral panic.
>>It seemed straightforward enough. I had no idea.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/unsolicited-seeds-china-brushing/619417/
@estherschindler
I got seeds before the pandemic. I don’t have seeds in my order history. Maybe the surge was due to pandemic brain fog and logistics fuckups, but I think brushing was and has been happening. It was only noticed when there was this massive uptick, and the combination that it’s seeds (invasive species and tinfoil hat crop choker fears) and that they were from China or [insert country with unfamiliar script here] resulted in heightened suspicion on top of the brain fog.