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mk  ·  1357 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened.

It won't be impossible, but it may be more difficult. A sythetic virus will likely have more "space to explore".

If I didn't suspect that this was the result of human experimentation, I would have been less concerned all along. I try to keep this in mind when I am in places like Tennessee last week, and half of the people are going indoors without masks. I suspect that if they were convinced this virus was an experiment gone wrong, they'd probably be more cautious. However, they'd also probably attack my wife.

There needs to be a moratorium on this type of research. The world needs to understand that this was likely self-inflicted, and likely did not have to happen.