Ok then.
So you are presumably fine with the research being done on H5N1 ?
Chinese lab playing around with Ebola virus
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So you are presumably fine with the research being done on H5N1 ?
Why do you get so defensive when people call out China??
Are we not allowed to criticize China because you're a far Leftie, and China is a communist country also??
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Even with all the Biosafety levels in place, lab leaks still happen.
Read and learn: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/30/lab-leaks-shrouded-secrecy
LOL
How am I being defensive about you "calling out China".
I'm pointing out that your own post undercuts your pretense that this is about lab safety concern.
Of course they do.
Mistakes are inevitable.
This is part of the whole concept of security - risk management.
Right, which is exactly why they shouldnt mess around with a dangerous virus like Ebola
Yet centuries later and it's still responsible for 3 or 4 hundred thousand deaths per year.
They don't come up with the vaccines before because it is pointless until you know the exact genetics of the virus. They develop treatments and they identify mechanisms the virus uses which can be targeted with vaccines or treatments.
It would be stupid to claim that scientists studying infectious diseases aren't concerned about leaks as that is a big part of their job. But similarly, they know the protocols and the functioning of viruses in the wild so see it far more likely that a new pandemic will emerge from nature.
I may be wrong but don't they just survey the strains going around in the southern hemisphere and predict which ones are likely to spread here?
Yes that's one part of it. But these things mutate all the time. And you have to anticipate other issues, and weigh the cost/benefit.
There are lots of diseases that haven't yet become pandemics that they work on vaccines for.
If it has the potential to become one, it is likely worth studying.
Exactly.
The most generous interpretation of Phil here is just that he has a very different cost/benefit risk calculation than we do.
And they just admitted they were doing gain of function research at the Wuhan lab, fancy that ...
Isn't it amazing how Fauci denied that for so long, meanwhile, he was directly responsible for funding it through the NIAID.
That's good to hear.
It means you might be convinced by facts and reporting.
Oh dear, are people actually thinking that this is evidence that SaRS CoV-2 came from the Wuhan lab?
