Comment by mam3 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mam3 | Hacker News Reader

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Im dont even get the debate. Theres a lab studying and experimenting on sars viruses so OF COURSE there COULD be a leak.

Still its a GOOD thing to have labs studying it. Accidents happen its a fact of life so a leak (or even a ramdom mutation) was always a matter of when not if. Playing the blaming game is not going to change anything.

And actually if anything to blame, we should blame politicians who didnt listen to people like Bill Gates when he said this exact kind of viruses coul make milions of death and that we should prepare for it three years ago. But still.. humans always react, not proact, its another fact of life that no amount of internet outrage will change.

In the end the virus will make our society stronger to thkd kind of threat.. But then when will be the turning point for the climate ?

> Im dont even get the debate.

There's trillions of dollars of potential damages at stake. Even if this was a Chernobyl type disaster due to mismanagement and negligence, the CCP will be on the hook, and they are all too aware of it. IMHO this debate is healthy & necessary.

Yeah you think the CCP is going to pay anything even if its their fault ? Thats a whole other level of delusion

On the international scale almost all things happen by force. They wouldn’t pay anything voluntarily but getting the world united against you means tariffs, limits on exports, etc. it doesn't help that they are already known to lie even to their own people on things like pollution or imprison dissidents.

But the actual origin is not necessarily the most important point. I think there's already some evidence that China acted, at best, negligently, and at worst, nefariously, in the early days of covid, wrt disclosure, alerting the world, etc.

For example, why did they still allow international fligths out of Wuhan even after they'd locked the city down?

What outcomes are you expecting? The CCP are going to accept blame on behalf of some lab technicians and pay the world trillions in compensation?

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