• Ropianos@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Just so you know, not only them are reading your response. I appreciate your response.

    And as someone that isn’t working in the field, I have to admit that it is very illogical that they would conduct gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in a country previously hit by a coronavirus outbreak while violating safety standards. Obviously that’s hindsight but shouldn’t this be very obviously a bad idea? It’s not like the existence of a virus like COVID-19/sarscov-2 was completely unexpected.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, you’d do the research where you would be finding the wild zoonotic pathogens you want to study. So the location makes perfect sense.

      The biosafety issues are more just a long-standing problem with how science is done in China in general, which is overall bad.

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        So you admit that China has lax protocols, and that the US and China were studying the same virus that became a problem later, but you offer me nothing but insults for wondering if that same virus leaked from that same poor quality lab.

        I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

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        1 year ago

        I meant what actually happened is illogical to me. So I’m simply a bit confused and understand that there might be some nuance that I’m missing.

        And I think an accidental leak is absolutely possible, it’s only that a conscious effort by China and the USA is unrealistic.