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There is a difference between a restaurant worker (or a wet market worker) who slipped up and a lab worker that slipped up because we want lab rules to be idiot
by handmodel 5y ago
There is a difference between a restaurant worker (or a wet market worker) who slipped up and a lab worker that slipped up because we want lab rules to be idiot proof such that one worker would not be able to infect others/themselves - even if they tried.
The restaurant worker slipping up is bad luck if they happen to be first to contact a virus. The government that runs labs know there is 100% chance there are dangerous viruses there and have a responsibility to enforce the safeguards.
- 8note 5y agoI think that only applies within their borders. Once it's outside, sure, there's a duty to report, but other governments have a responsibility to their own populace to keep them healthy. The US, for instance, should have more than enough spies in China to know everything china knows anyways, and took the chinese line that the virus didn't exist, or wasn't a problem up until Joe Biden got elected
- hpcjoe 5y agoThe US spy networks in China have been "rolled up"[1]. They don't exist in a usable form (if the news is to be believed). As for the "until Joe Biden" bit, er ... no. Trump was kicked out in large part due to his incompetent handling of the virus in the US (he thought it was an orchestrated attack by his political opponents, given that they turned everything into such an attack). The virus was a problem long before Biden won. Not that he is more competently handling it (he isn't), but the news media can now largely let go of their Trump derangement to start focusing on important things again. So it shows up more. [1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/905779/CIA-China-Jerry-Chun-Shing-Lee-spy-FBI-arrest-US-informants-intelligence-network https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/905779/CIA-China-Jerry-...