Thread by @TheSeeker268

"We need to see biological hazards as an existential threat to the 21st century in the same way that atomic science was to the 20th century”
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"While chemical facilities are closely monitored by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, there is no such designated body to police biological labs."

"The biological weapons convention says you should adhere to these rules, you should follow these guidelines and if there's an accident, you should report it, but people have only paid lip service to that”

The WHO’s difficulties in establishing basic facts about safety and security at the Wuhan Institute for Virology “indicates that we do not have sufficient oversight over these facilities and the activities happening inside them”.