China's alarming experiment with a 100% lethal virus raises global health concerns, emphasizing the need for ethical scientific practices.

Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/8224710

China has reportedly embarked on a controversial path of experimenting with a new Covid-like virus, characterized by a 100% fatality rate in mice. The unfolding scenario raises concerns about the potential risks associated with such experiments, especially the prospect of the virus spilling over into the human population.

  • Overzeetop@beehaw.org
    4·
    10 months ago

    IT sounds all gloom and doom, but if the original had been that effective we’d have a smaller vaccine-denier population right now. Silver linings and all…

    • Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org
      5·
      10 months ago

      Maybe it makes me a monster but I feel we would have been a lot better off with a higher mortality rate, and I say this as a person who has had covid twice.

        • Moira_Mayhem@beehaw.org
          4·
          10 months ago

          I think you’re missing the point: If covid had been a lot more lethal, then the people who acted in belligerent ignorance would be a significantly smaller portion of the population afterwards.

          I’m not here to change people’s minds, that basically impossible unless you are a demagogue.

          On the other hand, if the most stubborn, ignorant, and easily fooled people had the brunt of mortalities (which so far very study indicates is true), then if there was a 20% mortality rate, consider what the population of the nation would look after that.

          Does that make me a monster? Probably.