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Fairytales about lab leaks won't absolve us of our abject failure to deal with this novel pathogen, nor will they help us prepare for the next.
by somewhereoutth 5y ago
Fairytales about lab leaks won't absolve us of our abject failure to deal with this novel pathogen, nor will they help us prepare for the next.
- dylan604 5y agoUnfortunately, the experience of the current situation is not helping us prepare for the next either. That's the sad part to me.
- rhino369 5y agoRefusal to investigate whether this is the biggest disaster in scientific history is odd. If dangerous research killed 15 million people we need to know.
- BeFlatXIII 5y agoEven if it did and we do know, do you honestly think it would stop rather than be moved to secret bio weapons research facilities?
- rhino369 5y agoYes, because the type of research that would have led to covid-19 was public health research, not weapons research. Gain-of-function research is done to help learn about pandemics so we can prevent them.
- gfodor 5y agoActually given people like you seem insistent that such lab leaks cannot happen, having it proven as such would help us prepare for the next because it would force us to listen to the people who have been warning us it will happen for years.
- postingawayonhn 5y agoReducing the frequency of these leaks would seem like a good idea.
- trhway 5y ago>our abject failure to deal with this novel pathogen the response during the initial critical phase could have been been different if it wasn't led by the people with obvious conflict of interests like Fauci and was looking more like coverup than an actual response. The EcoHealth NIH grants for coronavirus/Wuhan included "Human Subjects", so who knows how much of the initial spread was the part of it.