Re:Lab Leak Most Likely Origin of Covid-19 Pandemic, U.S. Ag...
by zdragnar on Sunday February 26, 2023 @06:20PM
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If, hypothetically, it did leak from a lab, there are two important things that should happen:
1- China has suffered more than enough to revaluate protocols around virus handling. The pandemic has done more to undermine confidence in their government than anything else in decades. They've got plenty of reason to be invested in change if change is warranted
2- The US government could put stronger regulations in place around funding companies that turn around and fund foreign labs (such as ecohealth) unless those projects can demonstrate compliance with new, safer protocols. What you call simple sanctions, I call the power of the purse.
All of this happens only if we determine whether the existing protocols, or lax enforcement of them, gave rise to the spread of the virus.
Just shrugging it off and saying "meh, it's hard so why bother" is a recipe for future man-made disasters.
1- China has suffered more than enough to revaluate protocols around virus handling. The pandemic has done more to undermine confidence in their government than anything else in decades. They've got plenty of reason to be invested in change if change is warranted
2- The US government could put stronger regulations in place around funding companies that turn around and fund foreign labs (such as ecohealth) unless those projects can demonstrate compliance with new, safer protocols. What you call simple sanctions, I call the power of the purse.
All of this happens only if we determine whether the existing protocols, or lax enforcement of them, gave rise to the spread of the virus.
Just shrugging it off and saying "meh, it's hard so why bother" is a recipe for future man-made disasters.