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Why doesn't it matter that it's a lab leak?
by questinthrow 3y ago
Why doesn't it matter that it's a lab leak?
- stravant 3y agoBecause labs can't build a virus from the ground up. They'd be working from an existing virus and only making the smallest of adjustments.
- ObscureScience 3y agoIs anyone even suggesting a genetically modified virus?
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoYes, mostly fucking idiots.
- ObscureScience 3y agoOk, I'm not excluding the possibility of a lab leak, but I would expect it to be just badly handled regular microbiological/pathological research rather than genetic engineering.
- vasdae 3y agoBack when it was hard to prove that it was a lab leak, the theory was censored and we were called crazy. Now that it is obvious that it was a lab leak, we are told it doesn't really matter.
- pts_ 3y agoIt's still contested isn't it?
- baq 3y agoIt’s there out in the wild, knowing it escaped from a lab is literally irrelevant to treatment
- mandmandam 3y agoKnowing how it started might help develop treatments, and that seems like a really weird thing to ignore. If it was a lableak, then there's documents and data that would have been extremely helpful, and which still matter. There's also the other benefits of knowing: public health preparedness, scientific research policies, global biosecurity, international relations and trust, legal and ethical accountability, zoonotic spillover research, public clarity, etc. It completely baffles me that people are still dismissing the lableak theory as unimportant.
- johnchristopher 3y agoWhat kind of insurance did that lab have and in which country should I sue if it's a leak ?