Trump is trying to shift blame to Chinese to distract from his massive failings. And b/c he's a racist. But we need to contend with lab escapes past and future—because it's happened a lot more than you want to know. Great piece by @rowanjacobsen motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
Should we let labs study dangerous pathogens?
Should we allow them to alter them to make more deadly/contagious so as to prepare for that happening naturally?
Are the benefits worth the risks? motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
Should we allow them to alter them to make more deadly/contagious so as to prepare for that happening naturally?
Are the benefits worth the risks? motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
Where ever/however COVID-19 crossed over to infect humans, it was almost certainly not at the Wuhan wet market motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
But *if* COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which was in partnership with US government, no small amount of blame should be heaped on the Trump administration, which ignored the lab's request for more security help. motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
