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How to Catch a Lab Leak (statecraft.pub)
14 points by mooreds on July 7, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Evil Overlord Wisdom*: If your evil pathologist minions are too sloppy to keep nasty diseases from leaking out of their labs, and your public health minions utterly botch their efforts to contain that leak - then your pride-and-joy bioweapons program is actually an intolerable threat to your own Evil Empire. Have those pathologists tortured to death as a "refresher lesson on competence" for your public health minions, then suggest that the latter be extremely thorough in cleaning up whatever germs the former left lying around.

*If anyone is unfamiliar with this flavor of satire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Overlord_List#Evil_Overlo...




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