[bourgwaletariat]

Yeah, just don't do GoF research. Or don't let it escape from a lab. Or, don't lie about it when it does. Or, contain it if it does. Or shut down travel outside the country if it does. Or, don't cripple Australia with a trade war if they suggest an investigation into the origins of the disease are warranted. Or don't cancel people if they wonder if maybe it didn't come from nature. Or, do the audits to verify the labs doing catastrophic research are doing it safely and properly. Or, don't sneak in funding for something that has already been declared a risk to human existence. Or, don't pay "non-profits" millions of dollars to pay enemy nations to do research into how to turn a virus into a bioweapon. Or value the health of the world over the profits of corporations.

I bet none of these ideas are in the report.

* read article *

Nope.

* reads report *

Oh, I got one: Waive IP rights to vaccines.

Their suggestion: Give the WHO more money. They'll do it better next time apparently.

I guarantee you, if China had said, "A bioweapon we were developing escaped the lab, lock everything down!"

This would not have happened.

[_y5hn]

Bioweapon? A new strain of virus that can mutate to unknown properties, and to which virtually nobody have immunity?

[rcpt]

Even if it weren't developed as a weapon (I think the current theory is they were researching possible coronavirus vaccines) the WHO shouldn't be so complacent in letting China control the investigation.

[throwawaysea]

Chinese scientists discussed weaponizing SARS in 2015 (https://www.ibtimes.com/explosive-report-says-chinese-scient...).