Hoping to press the point here about why it is so important to understand whether the current pandemic arose from the wildlife trade/environmental destruction vs research activities.
The pandemic prevention strategies are in complete conflict for each scenario.
The pandemic prevention strategies are in complete conflict for each scenario.
We've heard from experts who believe that this pandemic MUST have arisen from 100% natural spillover (no research activities or personnel involved). They want us to ramp up virus hunting and virus study in labs worldwide. So that we can predict and prepare for the next pandemic.
But if COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2 emerged due to the exposure of research or lab personnel, whether during the extensive fieldwork or in-lab experimentation, then this "pandemic prevention" strategy is actually accelerating the emergence of the next lab-related pandemic pathogen.
This kind of outbreak - where a natural or slightly modified pathogen escapes from a lab - affects people living near these labs first.
And if the city has a high traffic international airport, it will hit the world just as hard as COVID-19 did.
It's not someone else's problem.
And if the city has a high traffic international airport, it will hit the world just as hard as COVID-19 did.
It's not someone else's problem.
If COVID-19 arose from research activities, whether virus hunting, manipulation or gain-of-function research, then I suspect there wouldn't be a call to ramp up virus hunting & characterization in labs worldwide.
Rather, these activities would be restricted to isolated areas.
Rather, these activities would be restricted to isolated areas.
Furthermore, the demonstrated inability to track the origins of the current pandemic shows bad actors that they can likely get away with future bioterror projects. Just deny it. Just don't share any of your data (like that missing pathogen database).
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