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0 pointsestearum5mo ago0 comments

GoF research increasing lethality of contagions or contagiousness of lethal pathogens shouldn't be done at BSL-2 regardless, don't you agree?

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tim3335mo ago

Indeed but we wouldn't even be talking about that if it were not for the investigations done so far revealing that as a likely cause. And only discovered under court rulings requiring people to divulge information they were otherwise refusing to let out.

It's a bit like looking at the 737-MAX crashes and saying the investigation was pointless. Planes should be designed not to crash regardless, don't you agree?

timschmidt5mo ago

> It's a bit like looking at the 737-MAX crashes and saying the investigation was pointless. Planes should be designed not to crash regardless, don't you agree?

Brilliantly put.

estearumOP5mo ago

Do we live in a world of airplanes of all makes and models probabilistically falling out of the sky as a guaranteed characteristic of airplanes?

If so, yes, focusing on debugging a 737-MAX crash that happened to be completely full and hit an occupied building on the ground (therefore extra horrific/attention-grabbing) would be pointless.

Doubly so if the evidence required to root cause it was evaporated upon impact.

Triply so if people decided they had to know what caused that specific crash before they could address the probabilistic falling of airplanes out of the sky.

timschmidt5mo ago

> Do we live in a world of airplanes of all makes and models probabilistically falling out of the sky

This statement and others you've made about dice and probability suggest that you think actions of humans bear no weight on probability of infection or outbreak. History teaches us otherwise.

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tim3335mo ago

It's a bit like looking at the 737-MAX crashes and saying the investigation was pointless. Planes should be designed not to crash regardless, don't you agree?

timschmidt5mo ago

> It's a bit like looking at the 737-MAX crashes and saying the investigation was pointless. Planes should be designed not to crash regardless, don't you agree?

Brilliantly put.

estearumOP5mo ago

Do we live in a world of airplanes of all makes and models probabilistically falling out of the sky as a guaranteed characteristic of airplanes?

If so, yes, focusing on debugging a 737-MAX crash that happened to be completely full and hit an occupied building on the ground (therefore extra horrific/attention-grabbing) would be pointless.

Doubly so if the evidence required to root cause it was evaporated upon impact.

Triply so if people decided they had to know what caused that specific crash before they could address the probabilistic falling of airplanes out of the sky.

timschmidt5mo ago

> Do we live in a world of airplanes of all makes and models probabilistically falling out of the sky

This statement and others you've made about dice and probability suggest that you think actions of humans bear no weight on probability of infection or outbreak. History teaches us otherwise.

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