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Well you'd have to get the US to sign up and the US doesn't really sign up for stuff like that. It was always a thoroughly plausible argument that was needless

Well you'd have to get the US to sign up and the US doesn't really sign up for stuff like that. It was always a thoroughly plausible argument that was needlessly politicized. SARS leaked from a lab in China twice in the early 2000s, and both times the PRC admitted it. [1] That said, every country in the world has regular lab leaks, yes, including America. There's a Wikipedia page with some choice examples. [2] There was a 2022 leak of Polio in the Netherlands that was only caught by wastewater monitoring. [3] [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7096887/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity... [3] https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/an-eradicated-form-of-polio-popped-up-in-poop-a-cautionary-tale/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/an-eradicated-form-o...

tim333 2y ago
The US has chopped and changed a bit as to what it'll sign up to. It began a bioweapons program in 1943, then in the 1970s stopped that and ratified the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention international treaty. Then after the 9/11 attacks defence money got transferred to Fauci, probably so they could do iffy research covertly (Redfield talking about that https://youtu.be/oMlhvnMpRU0?t=1225 https://youtu.be/oMlhvnMpRU0?t=1225) They can't really sign up for inspections of dangerous research when they are doing it themselves. Maybe things will change a bit post covid?
- GenerWork 2y ago
  >Maybe things will change a bit post covid? I doubt it. I firmly believe that one of the reasons that we've never had a serious investigation into the origins of Covid is that the trail would lead back to people and agencies in the US, which would be highly embarrassing.

tim333 2y ago

The US has chopped and changed a bit as to what it'll sign up to. It began a bioweapons program in 1943, then in the 1970s stopped that and ratified the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention international treaty. Then after the 9/11 attacks defence money got transferred to Fauci, probably so they could do iffy research covertly (Redfield talking about that https://youtu.be/oMlhvnMpRU0?t=1225 https://youtu.be/oMlhvnMpRU0?t=1225) They can't really sign up for inspections of dangerous research when they are doing it themselves. Maybe things will change a bit post covid?

GenerWork 2y ago
>Maybe things will change a bit post covid? I doubt it. I firmly believe that one of the reasons that we've never had a serious investigation into the origins of Covid is that the trail would lead back to people and agencies in the US, which would be highly embarrassing.