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I wonder if we need a better way to address safety related to research around potentially airborne diseases -- like maybe in the past things that could result i
by xt00 5y ago
I wonder if we need a better way to address safety related to research around potentially airborne diseases -- like maybe in the past things that could result in death are considered bad, but something that presently is not deadly, but being airborne and super contagious could mean it could mutate like crazy while in a large majority of the human population. Another not totally as crazy as it sounds now that we have things like long covid, what if we have something that basically has a minor, but real impact on people long term, but now apply that complication across a huge number of people and comparing the cumulative impact to say 1000 people dying of ebola is hard to compare.
So maybe respiratory diseases, no matter how dangerous they currently are should be heavily restricted to labs that can handle them, and then have international monitors at each of them with strict reporting rules not tied to any organization like WHO or UN or whatever, they are just there to report lab leaks no matter how small.