Whether or not the Wuhan Institute of Virology really was the cause of the COVID-19 outbreak, it’s a possible scenario that a lab that’s focused on researching potential future pandemics has a security breach and accdiently starts a pandemic.
When doing outreach it’s worth to keep those risks in mind and hopefully focus on interventions that don’t increase accidental risk.
There are technologies such as CISPER that both make it easier to delibrately start pandemics and that also give us tools for fighting future pandemics.
Asking experts that did research into what policy might be effective is likely import to get good results.
Whether or not the Wuhan Institute of Virology really was the cause of the COVID-19 outbreak, it’s a possible scenario that a lab that’s focused on researching potential future pandemics has a security breach and accdiently starts a pandemic.
When doing outreach it’s worth to keep those risks in mind and hopefully focus on interventions that don’t increase accidental risk.
There are technologies such as CISPER that both make it easier to delibrately start pandemics and that also give us tools for fighting future pandemics.
Asking experts that did research into what policy might be effective is likely import to get good results.