Sam Altman, the recently fired (and rehired) chief executive of Open AI, was asked earlier this year by his fellow tech billionaire Patrick Collison what he thought of the risks of synthetic biology. ‘I would like to not have another synthetic pathogen cause a global pandemic. I think we can all agree that wasn’t a great experience,’ he replied. ‘Wasn’t that bad compared to what it could have been, but I’m surprised there has not been more global coordination and I think we should have more of that.’
Of course the labs location isn’t a coincidence. They built the lab that studies corona viruses near a huge natural reserve of bats infected with corona viruses.
duh, duh duh, duh, duuuuuuuuuh, yup.
Well maybe they shouldn’t have, you know, in case there’s a lab leak. Not saying there was, just saying that these virology labs scare me