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Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

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Re: Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

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Related: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallp... edit: Wow downvotes for linking to an event related to small pox. I figured it was important especially the timing. How many other small pox events do you remember in recent history? It's simply an interview about smallpox that happened recently. All I said was it was related.

What a coincidence. Another coincidence would be Event 201: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ Even one of those coincidences would be pretty amazing, but two? Tied to the same person? Absolutely wild.

Only wild if you assume that everyone has the same likelihood of having proximity to such an event. But people involved in smallpox research have a much increased chance because they have (physical) proximity to the places this can happen and those that find them have (secondary) proximity to those that have higher (physical) proximity. And Gates funds lots of these researchers so he has a very, very high likelihood of being withing a few steps of relation to something like this. Think centrality from graph theory. Gates is a very central vertex.

Re: Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

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If I were working in a lab I’d think it was hilarious to write “smallpox” on random bottles. Probably good that I work in software and not biology.

My first thought was that someone young labeled it as a joke years ago and forgot about it

Hopefully they're smart enough not to brag about it now that the feds are involved.

Re: Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

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Related: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallp... edit: Wow downvotes for linking to an event related to small pox. I figured it was important especially the timing. How many other small pox events do you remember in recent history? It's simply an interview about smallpox that happened recently. All I said was it was related.

This is not a good topic for Hacker News, you might get a better reception on Infowars.

Re: Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

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Related: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallp... edit: Wow downvotes for linking to an event related to small pox. I figured it was important especially the timing. How many other small pox events do you remember in recent history? It's simply an interview about smallpox that happened recently. All I said was it was related.

What a coincidence. Another coincidence would be Event 201: https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ Even one of those coincidences would be pretty amazing, but two? Tied to the same person? Absolutely wild.

Huh? Bill Gates is looking to the future and imagining the shit storms we're not prepared for, not sure what you're trying to say...

Re: Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

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Related: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallp... edit: Wow downvotes for linking to an event related to small pox. I figured it was important especially the timing. How many other small pox events do you remember in recent history? It's simply an interview about smallpox that happened recently. All I said was it was related.

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Re: Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

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Maybe we should shutdown all labs studying pathogens until they can figure out how to handle themselves. We aren’t even through the current scientist caused pandemic yet.

Maybe we should shut down aws until they figure out how to handle their periodic outages.

Re: Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

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If I were working in a lab I’d think it was hilarious to write “smallpox” on random bottles. Probably good that I work in software and not biology.

I thought that too.

But then I use vintage lab glassware labeled Hydrochloric Acid and Potassium Hydroxide for oil & vinegar containers.

Re: Vials labeled ‘smallpox’ are found in Pennsylvania laboratory

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first thought was that someone young labeled it as a joke years ago and forgot about it

Hopefully they're smart enough not to brag about it now that the feds are involved.

Handwriting or printer yellow dots can still lead to them.

Sign of times though - calling law enforcement when you find old pathogen and its vaccine in a freezer in a vaccine development lab. MBA types. In order to mentally train myself for an MBA career i need to start calling law enforcement anytime i find a bug in the 20+ years old code.

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