2020 IS NOT MESSING ABOUT: Mysterious Seed Packets from China Are Showing Up in U.S. Mailboxes: ‘Treat Them Like They Are Radioactive,’ Officials Warn.

Mysterious seeds are showing up in North Texas mailboxes and state authorities say Texas agriculture could be at risk.

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said 200 residents have received unsolicited seed packets sent by mail that appeared to have originated in China. Texas is one of nearly 30 states that have issued a warning.

“We don’t want people opening those up, don’t put them in the mail, certainly don’t plant them. Contact us. Let us pick them up. Treat them like they are radioactive, like they are Kryptonite,” Miller said.

As Jim Treacher adds, “Maybe it’s nothing. I hope it isn’t. But hope isn’t a plan. The CCP has given us no reason to trust them, and anybody who tells you otherwise isn’t your friend. If that makes me paranoid, fine. I’m done listening to people who keep lying to me.”

Related: ‘The Alternative Explanation, a Lab Escape, Is Far More Plausible.’ “We don’t know with absolute certainty that this pandemic started with some sort of accident at a lab in Wuhan. But the non-lab explanation most frequently cited since the outbreak, that the virus can be traced back to some animal consumed at the Huanan Seafood Market, is now inoperable. Not even the Chinese government is contending the outbreak started there anymore, raising the question of why certain American journalists are still echoing an exculpatory explanation that not even Beijing believes is plausible anymore.”

More: Cui Bono?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): Given that the Chinese are currently trying to stave off a food crisis, it seems unlikely that the PRC government would want to reduce U.S. agricultural productivity, which even if it hurt the US would push global prices way up. Of course, there may be other players in China than the Xi government, with different agendas.