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Comment by haihaibye

The mRNA vaccine took only a few days to design. So you'd save a few days, if the GoF virus happened to be exactly the same as the wild type.

There is no way to rush the rest of the process, unless you want to deliberately expose people to artificially created viruses that don't exist in the wild.

Small upside vs large downside of potentially creating a global pandemic.

Covid appeared on the Wuhan institute of virologies doorstep, with exactly the modification proposed in their grants. You would think this would be their time to shine but where was their help?

Right when the world needed the info they took all of their databases off-line and have never opened them again

parent haihaibye 3 years ago

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