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Improved standards may help some, but that’s not the real issue. If I, a virologist, enter a remote cave system that no other human would likely ever enter spe
by kcplate 5y ago
Improved standards may help some, but that’s not the real issue. If I, a virologist, enter a remote cave system that no other human would likely ever enter specifically looking for an undiscovered virus to study, I have already tipped the scales significantly to the likelihood that the unknown virus will infect humans by a huge scale over nature.
Then, by experimentation, I make said virus even more infectious or deadly…I have even further increased that likelihood of it infecting humans by a huge factor.
Then, by performing that experiment in an area with a dense 11M population, I have further increased that likelihood of human transmission so far beyond where it was when that virus sat in that remote cave and had a unlikely path to humans.
So you better hope like hell that your lab security is bulletproof, because you have removed virtually every layer of protection that nature has provided us humans from the bug.