(May 26, 2021 at 10:52 am)Angrboda Wrote: Well, it's anybody's guess, for sure, but China's lack of transparency helped make that the case. And it's not as if China is above acting on a conflict of interest.
-and the next one is only going to be worse. We want to blame an actor for it's appearance as though we could hold some actor accountable and prevent it from happening, but that's not really true. It's not even clear that china (or the next country) could have done anything to change the trajectory here. Our half a million dead wouldn't even be dead on chinas watch if china intentionally released a genetically engineered weapon. We knew it existed, we knew it was a problem, we had a chance to contain it...and we made a deliberate decision not to contain it.
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