[angelzen]

None of those things change the result for covid. The real troublesome thought is that bio-experimentation is booming, at both state and private level. Assuming covid escaped from a lab, it is the largest man-made disaster in history, with a death toll larger than nukes. We have non-proliferation treaties for nukes (as feeble, leaky and toothless as they are) but we aren't even considering the same for bio.

[mrguyorama]

The reason against any ban or anything is that nature doesn't care about your pesky laws and happily tries to develop bio-nukes every single day.

I would vote for bans or limits on what is essentially bio-weapon research though, but that has implications. Should we finally destroy everyone's stockpiles of smallpox? Are we better off not having those stores to test with as we develop new technologies? I'm not an immunologist so IDK how useful an essentially dead disease is to keep around

[angelzen]

Nature very rarely tries to splice pox with influenza. Humans, OTOH, do all sorts of unnatural experiments. See the log of US-funded research in Wuhan.