[ExI] Stranger than fiction

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 5:04 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:22 PM The Avantguardian via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>
>> * > So you don't think that if this information is verified, then it
>> would have been poor judgement on the part of the U.S. government to
>> outsource viral gain-of-function research deemed too dangerous to conduct
>> in the United States to another country with a reputation for poor quality
>> control on their exports?*
>
>
> I thought we were talking about China.
>
> Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens
> <https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487>
>
> The Wuhan wet market may not know how to safely work with dangerous
> viruses but, according to Nature, the BLS-4 lab in Wuhan does; like all
> officially certified BLS-4 labs it has the highest level of biocontainment.
>

### They did their coronavirus work at BLS-2, which is why the State
Department flagged that lab two years ago as problematic.

Rafal
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