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estearum an hour ago

If that's the understanding you came away with, it was clarified in my immediately following comment.

Glad we agree that there are labs that will solve very hard parts of creating a novel virus, either by accident or by negligence.

smallmancontrov an hour ago | parent [-]

It was dishonest then for you to imply that readily accessible commercial labs didn't take reasonable precautions and it's dishonest now, too.

estearum 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Define "reasonable precautions"?

Here's a red team exercise where researchers successfully bought fragments of the best known pathogen in the world, never mind a novel one.

What reasonable precautions failed to catch this but we could expect to catch a novel virus that "kinda looks like" a known virus?

https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/08/shouldnt-be-easy-buy-syn...

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