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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by mc32 on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:13PM (#27190901)
Unless the release was due to gross negligence --like an outage is due to really bad decisions by someone. In those cases blamelessness is not productive and conducive to more mishaps,
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Re:How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory by dsyrk on Monday May 17, 2021 @11:29PM (#27190975)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Russian_flu

But it keeps happening and maybe labs working with such viruses need much more careful procedures or shouldn’t perform risky gain of function research for example.

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