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The point being made is that even if you stop all pandemics with a lab leak origin, pandemics will still happen. So at the end of the day if you prove covid was
by ModernMech 5y ago
The point being made is that even if you stop all pandemics with a lab leak origin, pandemics will still happen. So at the end of the day if you prove covid was lab leak and put in safeguards that will, with 100% certainty stop pandemics with a lab leak origin, you’re nonetheless going to encourage yet pandemics because they are a fact of nature. Therefore it’s more important to respond pandemics rather than prevent them (because you can’t).
- tim333 5y agoYeah but you should do both. Regulate labs and prepare for pandemics.
- ModernMech 5y agoNo one is saying you shouldn’t do both.
- radu_floricica 5y agoIt feels a bit of an overkill, given that your comment is already negative, but I kinda want to point out the fallacy. Preventing pandemics _is_ the best way of responding to them. If we're going to have 10 big epidemies next century, doing whatever we can to make sure 3 don't happen at all is by far the best response to those 3. So researching the sh*t out of the causes of this particular pandemic is likely to get us extremely good return of investment.