This is all so odd. In March/April, I ordered seeds from two separate vendors on Amazon, and it was obvious from the tracking that they were on the literal slow boat from China. They eventually showed up, after weeks and weeks and weeks, and the packaging was just like the examples in all the articles about the “suspicious” ones, including the description of “rose stud earrings”. They were obviously what I ordered (sunflower seeds), but I don’t think any of them came up. The day after planting, I found suspicious holes where a “critter” had probably retrieved them from.
I guess just a coincidence?