 One of the signs we give rich tech bros too much airtime is that we don’t spend a bunch of time worrying about if scientists in a lab are going to create a disease that destroys humanity even though there’s a credible narrative this is what happened with COVID. Yet we have the media and government spending urgent time worrying about big tech or startups creating Skynet in their quest to automate white collar jobs. We’ve fallen for a tech bro grift even dumber than NFTs. 8 comments
@carnage4life Thats the fact check. Heres the orig https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/22/science/covid-virus-laboratory-experiments.html  @hannu_ikonen @carnage4life guess they didn’t think what we had on our hands was challenging enough and wanted to up the ante? @carnage4life Agree with Dr. Ebright here: Richard Ebright, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University ... emphasized that is a reason the study was potentially dangerous. “The risk posed by the novel lab-generated coronavirus is that it has the high immune-escape properties of omicron BA/1 and has higher lethality than omicron BA.1 in mice engineered to display human receptors for SARS-like coronaviruses,” Ebright said in an email.  @carnage4life@mas.to we do have real action to manage the risk of biological weapons and pandemics. Maybe we should have more, but we have a lot of public health infrastructure for that.  |
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@carnage4life Apropos:
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-boston-virus-idUSL1N31Q0ZK/
The study authors explain in their preprint paper (here) that they set out to understand what causes the diminished disease severity seen with the Omicron variant as compared to past variants.
The authors describe the creation of a chimeric SARS-CoV-2 virus with the spike protein of Omicron and the remaining viral structures from the original virus strain that spread around the world in early 2020.
///HOW TF WAS THIS APPROVED?
@carnage4life Apropos:
https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-boston-virus-idUSL1N31Q0ZK/
The study authors explain in their preprint paper (here) that they set out to understand what causes the diminished disease severity seen with the Omicron variant as compared to past variants.
The authors describe the creation of a chimeric SARS-CoV-2 virus with the spike protein of Omicron and the remaining viral structures from the original virus strain that spread around the world in early 2020.