https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/09/24/china-lab-wuhan-leaking-covid-loses-us-funding-experiments/
Wuhan Institute of Virology broke rules with experiments that increased viral activity more than tenfold, says health department
Just so you know, not only them are reading your response. I appreciate your response.
And as someone that isn't working in the field, I have to admit that it is very illogical that they would conduct gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in a country previously hit by a coronavirus outbreak while violating safety standards. Obviously that's hindsight but shouldn't this be very obviously a bad idea? It's not like the existence of a virus like COVID-19/sarscov-2 was completely unexpected.
I mean, you'd do the research where you would be finding the wild zoonotic pathogens you want to study. So the location makes perfect sense.
The biosafety issues are more just a long-standing problem with how science is done in China in general, which is overall bad.
So you admit that China has lax protocols, and that the US and China were studying the same virus that became a problem later, but you offer me nothing but insults for wondering if that same virus leaked from that same poor quality lab.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
I meant what actually happened is illogical to me. So I'm simply a bit confused and understand that there might be some nuance that I'm missing.
And I think an accidental leak is absolutely possible, it's only that a conscious effort by China and the USA is unrealistic.