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There are a lot of implications if this is a lab leak, including: - Are labs involved in this research sufficiently secure? Do we need to raise the standard of
by Aliabid94 5y ago
There are a lot of implications if this is a lab leak, including:
- Are labs involved in this research sufficiently secure? Do we need to raise the standard of security?
- Is the cost-benefit of gain of research worth it?
- Should China be forced to pay reparations/ sanctioned for hiding the source?
All of these conversations depend on whether its a lab leak.
- omginternets 5y agoI would add to that: "is it an intentional means of destabilizing the West?" To be clear: I see no evidence that Omicron is even a second lab-leak, much less that it's part of a sinister plot. My point is that there are immediate geopolitical implications, in addition to the scientific and public-health implications you have highlighted.
- addicted 5y agoWhich makes it even more ridiculous that random people on the internet are coming up with the lab leak theories and that American intelligence agencies, spanning 2 wildly divergent administrations, have not said anything to support this.
- omginternets 5y agoYes, we agree. This thread is about the implications of the lab-leak v2 theory, assuming it were true.
- ctoth 5y ago> IC analysts assess that a natural origin and a laboratoryassociated incident are both plausible hypotheses for how SARS-CoV-2 first infected humans. Analysts, however, disagree on which is more likely, or whether an assessment can be made at all, given the lack of diagnosticity of the available information. Most agencies are unable to make higher than low confidence assessments for these reasons, and confidence levels are tempered by plausible arguments for the opposing hypothesis. For these hypotheses, IC analysts consider an exposure that occurs during animal sampling activity that supports biological research to be a laboratoryassociated incident and not natural contact. [0]: https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declassified-Assessment-on-COVID-19-Origins.pdf https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Declass...
- cyounkins 5y agohttps://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan-institute-of-virology/index.html https://2017-2021.state.gov/fact-sheet-activity-at-the-wuhan...
- chaxor 5y agoI'm confused. Is Dr. Ferguson and Dr. Vonagen's observations about s/sn ratio not decent evidence towards this? It seems quite good statistically to me.
- omginternets 5y agoMaybe. I haven’t read the article yet. I’m one of those comments-first kind of people. Definitely intrigued, now!