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Just when I think we can't possibly make any more amazingly stupid decisions on this planet, there we go again
by roryisok 9y ago
Just when I think we can't possibly make any more amazingly stupid decisions on this planet, there we go again
- neo4sure 9y agoIn this administration stupid is the norm. Haven't you noticed?
- ceejayoz 9y agoI'm anti-Trump as can be, but I'd suspect this moratorium was always intended to be temporary while the protocols to protect us from accidents were checked and revised if necessary. There's genuine merit to understanding what makes a virus vary in lethality and how to combat that. There's plenty of things to bash this administration on. I don't think this is one of them.
- neo4sure 9y agoMaybe your right. Keeping up with all the things they throw out on a daily basis is tiresome, and I don't have time to research all of them.
- basic-gongfu 9y agoSounds more like you're trying to keep up with the bullshit avalanche from the prostitute media; you can't win that game, and your brain will turn to mush in the process. Journalism is dead, deal with it.
- caseysoftware 9y agoYou could read the first sentence of the article: "Federal officials on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal." or a little further down: "In October 2014, all federal funding was halted on efforts to make three viruses more dangerous: the flu virus, and those causing Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)."
- strictnein 9y agoA smart decision would have been to read the article.
- sllabres 9y agoI have read the article -- don't you think that there is the possibility for a catastrophic error with this kind of research?