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The distinction between "lab workers got infected whilst physically at a lab" and "lab workers got infected whilst doing remote work intended to benefit the lab
by native_samples 5y ago
The distinction between "lab workers got infected whilst physically at a lab" and "lab workers got infected whilst doing remote work intended to benefit the lab" seems quite small.
- bhickey 5y agoThere's a huge gulf between getting sick attempting to make a virus more virulent and getting sick while gathering natural samples in the field.
- inciampati 5y agoBoth involve research that was specifically intended to reduce risk of pandemics. If either is true, our response here should be to conduct this research with extreme care or even stop doing it. If the lab origin hypothesis is not true, we should actually do more of exactly this kind of work. That's why it's important to understand and come to consensus about it. It's not just a curiosity or a chance to point the finger at countries and politics we don't like. The prescription for how we should behave is completely different depending on what we think happened.