Friday, November 26, 2021

A way of thinking about it.

 Regarding the infamous gain of function research done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology with U.S. funding, it strikes me that the decision tree looks a little bit like this.

  • Communist country with  nukes pointed at the U.S.?  check
  • Nation is eagerly rattling the sword towards Taiwan and other neighbors?  check
  • Nation killed 65 million of its own people during its cultural revolution?  check
  • Nation forced tens of millions of women to abort their own children?  check
  • Research group has a long history of bad safety practices with deadly viruses?  check
Response; "Hey, don't you think it would be a great idea to do research that could easily be transferred for bioweapons research with these guys?"  To quote a comment I read, if you did a colonoscopy on these guys, you'd expect to find their heads at the hepatic flexure.