How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
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Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
#2Just so people know who is posting this - Donald McNeil Jr was the chief voice at NYT focusing on covid. He was ousted earlier because of some remarks that he allegedly made to a school group a few years ago, but before that, the NYT was pushing for him to get a Pulitzer for his reporting on COVID. Him starting legitimize the lab-leak theory as possible is reflective of the people more generally taking the lab-leak hypothesis seriously.
That's never to legitimize violence, or score political points, but maybe to get us a bit closer to what sparked the pandemic.
Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
#3I’m getting a 500 error on this story. Only me?
Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
#4I’m getting a 500 error on this story. Only me?
Working for me.
Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
#5Working out the initial cause of this Covid outbreak is far far far less important/actionable than working out what we should do differently when (not if) another virus starts spreading.
This concept should be familiar to those in tech already: https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
#6Working out the initial cause of this Covid outbreak is far far far less important/actionable than working out what we should do differently when (not if) another virus starts spreading. This concept should be familiar to those in tech already: https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
What if doing the first thing helps us do the second thing?
Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
#7Working out the initial cause of this Covid outbreak is far far far less important/actionable than working out what we should do differently when (not if) another virus starts spreading. This concept should be familiar to those in tech already: https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
What if doing the first thing helps us do the second thing?
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Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
#8“Chinese labs sell their dead experimental animals in food markets.” This is actually true and not uncommon.
Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
#9Working out the initial cause of this Covid outbreak is far far far less important/actionable than working out what we should do differently when (not if) another virus starts spreading. This concept should be familiar to those in tech already: https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
You can do both. If a plane crashes, you find out the cause. During that evaluation, if you also find that the pilots response to the engine failure was also wrong, you fix that too.
Re: How I learned to stop worrying and love the lab-leak theory
#10Working out the initial cause of this Covid outbreak is far far far less important/actionable than working out what we should do differently when (not if) another virus starts spreading. This concept should be familiar to those in tech already: https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
What if doing the first thing helps us do the second thing?
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