<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 2:22 PM The Avantguardian via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>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?<br></i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">I thought we were talking about China.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487">Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><font size="4">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. If great minds at Fox News like Lou Dobbs makes a proclamation about viruses and Nature says the opposite I would tent to side with Nature until new facts come to light and Occam's razor makes me change my mind.</font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>So we pay another country to develop potential world-killers in the lab so that we can have a head start fighting it if it evolved naturally?</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Yes.</font></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>It sure didn't help us in this situation.</i><br></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">It might have if we'd done it 5 years earlier.</font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">><i> </i></span><i>Paying another country to do it for you because they are less strict about that sort of thing is an even worse idea. </i><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">Yes that would be a bad idea, but I thought we were talking about China. In all this the one country that has demonstrated total ineptitude in the way they handle dangerous viruses is the USA. And by the way, the 1918 flu that killed close to 100 million people worldwide may have been called the "Spanish" flu but it probably started in the USA, in Haskell County Kansas.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div>
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