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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
The facility in Wuhan is a BSL4 which has the same safety protocols as elsewhere. I believe there were non Chinese scientists in the lab as well, and protocols for these labs I believe are pretty standard.
The reason is say it doesn't matter, it's that this certainly isn't a lab created virus. While we don't have the exact missing link coronavirus this evolved from, there's literally millions of different strains of the coronavirus in mammals all over the globe and this is how they evolve. This was a naturally occurring virus waiting for a human host, so shouldn't our efforts be directed at dealing with emerging zoonotic pathogens? Strengthening lab protocols isn't going to stop the next pandemic as this is exactly how the next one will come anyways. If it escaped from a lab or simply found a human host from it's origin, what we need to do is the same: be vigilant, share info, invest in public health
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It's also important that nations aren't experimenting on deadly viruses and then covering it up. If that is what occurred, that certainly contributes to spread and the frequency of these outbreaks.
I agree that there is always a risk. But if you have evidence of nations plucking these viruses from the forest, allowing them to spread into the population, and then allowing those populations to get on planes travelling all over the world, that's certainly something worth looking into.
Either way, assuming this isn't a lab leak, there's already plenty of evidence to point towards a cover up in the early stages.
Art of being vigilant and sharing info needs to include getting regimes like China in line with whatever protocols get put into place.