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In software you would never do a postmortem without understanding the root cause of the incident. If this was caused by a lab leak, or even gain-of-function re
by ahupp 5y ago
In software you would never do a postmortem without understanding the root cause of the incident. If this was caused by a lab leak, or even gain-of-function research, that seems like a pretty important detail.
- Godel_unicode 5y agoBut that's not what you would start with. If you have an incident and discover that your response plan was hilariously inadequate, you would prioritize making more robust response plans because even if you can prevent that exact incident from happening again, there will be other disasters.
- socceroos 5y agoConversely, if you discover that the cause of the issue was inadequate controls during virus research then you should absolutely start with fixing those. Put it this way, if the cause of the worldwide pandemic was because it leaked from a lab then you should fix the lab.
- loopz 5y agoSaying this as layman that warned for years about virus engineering, this is just a given. The mere potential should be enough. However, speculation without evidence and mitigation is bad.
- creato 5y agoYou're writing as if somehow general pandemic response has been deprioritized in favor investigating the lab leak theory, which is absurdly far from reality. This incident has cost millions of lives and possibly undone decades of progress on reducing poverty worldwide. It is worth pursuing multiple angles in parallel.
- p1necone 5y agoPandemic response in the USA was atrocious, and it's politically convenient for those who support the administration that was responsible to try to deflect blame however they can. So I'm very skeptical of the motives of people that keep posting stuff like this.
- esyir 5y agoThe academic community is pretty opposed to the trump administration, which also is the one blamed for the covid response. Don't see why they'd be bending over to defend it there.
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- katbyte 5y agoRegardless you would do both? And knowing it was gain of function research in a lab is an easy “let’s stop doing that” moment