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We already have controls for that: we control access to the reagents and equipment needed. Yknow, like we always have.

Information is not dangerous. This is a ridiculous argument to me, but maybe my chemistry degree has me biased.

Not to mention that making an actual novel virus requires thousands of dollars of equipment, serious lab skills, and even then is so dangerous that the wannabe terrorist is more likely to infect and kill themselves than cause mass causalities.

It's the equivalent of making pipe bombs at home.

The instructions are out in the public, but that's not a problem because the idiots that make pipe bombs blow themselves up more often than they succeed in doing terrorism.

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