it just so happens that delta and omicron are not wildly more severe; a lab engineered pathogen would probably not be, and one that evolves in an animal or an immunocompromised person might not be either. but we should be leaning on new institutions and investments, not on people
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clearly in our current condition we would fail a biowar test. geopolitical rivals Russia and China have already tried to gain pace through information warfare (and misinfo) and biotechnology (eg. sputnik and vaccine diplomacy) this is not a good vulnerability to demonstrate
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Oh I 100% agree with that too. I just don’t think keeping folks in the current heightened situation is making that more likely, if we haven’t already done it the last 1.5 years :-/
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agreed. we’re squandering compliance and authority and our good luck that delta and omicron are not 10x worse, incredible to me that biodefense hasn’t gotten DOD scale budgets, (yet we still have a Space Force!)
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Good point. Consider, though, that the funding and dollars will skew toward the likely and the justifiable; not the stuff that will actually come and catch us unawares (designed or otherwise). Like Feynman said: reality must take precedence over PR, for nature cannot be fooled
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