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by Leary 1767 days ago
So why did Fort Detrick shut down in 2019?
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Wikipedia says they failed a safety inspection. Do you believe something different? It's since been re-opened with limited capacity after retraining.
Wikipedia says they failed a safety inspection for breaches of containment. What were they failing to contain and what was the effect of the breach?

I mean, the argument of the comment at the top of this thread seems pretty straightforward to me: if it's a norm to explain what's going on at biological research labs with links to the military, then that norm applies to everyone, not just China. The world deserves to have a detailed and open accounting of what went on, even if the accounting is "Nothing relevant." And in a practical sense, if the US abides by the norm that public reports on military bio-warfare labs are expected, it gives the US a much better bargaining position when asking other people to abide by that norm.

Because they were not disposing of dangerous waste according to protocol.

Also the CDC limited information about the shutdown due to "national security concerns".

Archived NYT article from August 6 2019:

https://archive.ph/oosEz

They failed an inspection and mishandled waste byproducts - but also after an "unknown" pneumonia-like respiratory disease starting spreading in the area around D.C

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/health-officials-to...

https://patch.com/virginia/burke/another-respiratory-outbrea...

That's not weird at all...