Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag...
by colechristensen on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:28PM
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This supposes way too much intention that can much more easily be explained by incompetence.
A lab doing questionable work with inadequate safety measures hiding a major leak to save face makes way more sense than a supervillain story.
Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag...
by baja_blast on Sunday February 26, 2023 @04:47PM
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And when you add in the fact that virology work on unknown wild SARS like viruses were scheduled for only BSL2. And the vast majority of research published on sampled SARS like viruses was conducted in BSL2 labs it very easy to imagine a researcher unwittingly getting infected from a human mice model carrying a wild virus with a human optimized FCS inserted.
However, a thought experiment, what if their zero-covid program was a test pilot to see a pandemic could be averted on a local scale through govt intervention, so if they unleashed something much more deadly, it'd be contained in the country, but hit other countries worse.
I mean it seems reasonable that if you wanted to launch biological warfare you'd want to be sure there was either a cure, or you could contain it outside the country, from getting into the population. I could also see some despot thinking he was doing a good thing for humanity by unleashing a virus with a 50% kill rate, because of the impact on global warming alone. Scary, that one person could decide to do that, and nobody could stop it, if they did.