More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins
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#3Part of me thinks that we should almost not waste the time to find out. Spend the effort on preparing for the next one, by improving air filtration etc.
Politics is too deeply entrenched, it will be an impossibility to uncover the truth.
Re: More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins
#4Part of me thinks that we should almost not waste the time to find out. Spend the effort on preparing for the next one, by improving air filtration etc. Politics is too deeply entrenched, it will be an impossibility to uncover the truth.
Sort of agree. But if it was from a lab, that might make people and governments more careful in the future
Also, what do you mean by "improving air filtration"?
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#5Part of me thinks that we should almost not waste the time to find out. Spend the effort on preparing for the next one, by improving air filtration etc. Politics is too deeply entrenched, it will be an impossibility to uncover the truth.
What is sad is that these ideas were dismissed as crackpotish or racist until now.
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#6Part of me thinks that we should almost not waste the time to find out. Spend the effort on preparing for the next one, by improving air filtration etc. Politics is too deeply entrenched, it will be an impossibility to uncover the truth.
How do we know the next one will involve air filtration at all? Perhaps it will thrive on surfaces for long periods and will react negatively to air. How should we prepare for this or any other etiology that might be significantly different than this one? If we're constantly preparing for the last pandemic, and the next one is surprisingly different, wouldn't that be bad as well, as those resources could have been used better in the intervening time?
But, also, wouldn't it be better to determine the cause of this one so we know not to do whatever it was that caused this? For example, try to discourage exotic meats that might be host to the virus and/or eliminate or strictly control gain of function research, depending on the actual cause (or some other cause that isn't actually either of these)?
Re: More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins
#7Part of me thinks that we should almost not waste the time to find out. Spend the effort on preparing for the next one, by improving air filtration etc. Politics is too deeply entrenched, it will be an impossibility to uncover the truth.
What is sad is that these ideas were dismissed as crackpotish or racist until now.
I wonder in who's best interest it was to dismiss these theories as racist.
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#8As it takes longer and longer to find any evidence in nature a lab leaking is becoming the most likely source.
Re: More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry into Coronavirus Origins
#9Part of me thinks that we should almost not waste the time to find out. Spend the effort on preparing for the next one, by improving air filtration etc. Politics is too deeply entrenched, it will be an impossibility to uncover the truth.
Why is it an either/or? It seems like it would be possible to improve air filtration and have an inquiry.
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#10How is this even going to work? PRC will never allow access to the actual data if it was a lab escape/origin. The sort of propoganda happening on Twitter shows that even discussion is going to be difficult.