People's thinking on this topic is tied in pretzels. The origins of covid matter because they will help us prevent the next pandemic. Lab escape and direct zoonotic transfer have radically different implications for how we do that. This is a public health issue, not geopoliticshttps://twitter.com/AliVelshi/status/1398701148333395968 …
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Those who equate criticism of the Chinese government with sinophobia or racism are carrying water for a genocidal regime, and doing immense disservice to the very people they claim to be defending.
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Does it, though? I worked for a bio research lab for a bit when I was younger and there is no system that can outsmart basic human mental errors. One of the reasons prion diseases are understudied is that few people want to be in the lab with them, even with best precautions.
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But why wait? Even if this one wasn’t, the case for risk mitigation is the same.
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Exactly.
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Shouldn’t we do the same things regardless?
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There's a whole bunch of different lab escape scenarios that get conflated, but the details really matter.
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