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> the Wuhan Institute of Virology was already engaged in some of the genetic engineering work described in the proposal Sure, but that doesn't point to Americ
by octopoc 5y ago
> the Wuhan Institute of Virology was already engaged in some of the genetic engineering work described in the proposal
Sure, but that doesn't point to America it points to China.
> “The mail is filled with little envelopes with plasmid dried on to filter paper that scientists routinely send each other,”
It seems unlikely the leak happened at the Wuhan post office, but even if it did, how does imply American incompetence?
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y ago> how does imply American incompetence? 1 million dead people kind of makes it seem an “a priori”
- edgyquant 5y agoWay to skirt around the fact that nothing points to it having come from America or being due to it. Even if incompetence allowed it to spread it was already global when it reached the US.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoJust different branches of the fault tree. Some analyst will someday pull together a fault tree weighted by deaths and economic harm, and America’s share will (based on current trends) certainly weigh heavier than most.
- mardifoufs 5y agoEven if we could blame American incompetence for the 1m death Americans, they can't be blamed for the pandemic as a whole. That does not make sense. The virus started spreading from China to dozens of countries before it even became a pandemic in the US.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 5y agoJust different branches of the fault tree. Some analyst will someday pull together a fault tree weighted by deaths and economic harm, and America’s share will (based on current trends) certainly weigh heavier than most.