[phkahler]

I think it's important to set aside the question of weather Covid was made in a lab. For the sake of argument let's say it was not. There were proposals to do the kind of experimental work that would have created a virus very much like Covid-19. Those who wrote the proposal and shopped it around for funding probably considered it relatively harmless to do, both in a lab, and should it accidentally get out (it's just a corona virus after all).

The fact remains that there are people out there who want to make stuff like that in a lab. That kind of "work" needs to stop.

Thats what I take away from Covid whether it came from a lab or not, it very well could have given what goes on in labs. The fact that a lab leak is highly plausible is the problem, not the truth of it happening in this case.

[nullc]

Yeah! exactly.

If by some weird accident of history the research wasn't the actual cause of the virus-- it's just an accident. The problem was that we setup a situation where if it wasn't human originated, it's only a fluke.

[isthisthingon99]

I like this idea.

[niemandhier]

> The fact remains that there are people out there who want to make stuff like that in a lab. That kind of "work" needs to stop.

No we need much more of such work. Why do you think we had a vaccine so fast? We were able to create an Ebola vaccine before?

[isthisthingon99]

The reason was because the virus was sequenced and we have technology that can supposedly create safe and effective vaccines based on this.