As a leading proponent of gain-of-function research, Daszek had an incredible conflict of interest in denying the possibility of a lab leak.

As Upton Sinclair observed, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” https://t.co/gfzs1oZT11

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) June 1, 2021

There’s been a bunch of research lab types emerging lately to claim that it’s absolutely impossible that any lab leak has ever occurred anywhere — in fact, they lock their researchers in the lab for life, and the only exit is the sweet release of death itself. That’s just how secure their labs are.

This has been funny to see because in reality of course bio labs are only generally a bit more secure than the average convenience store.

Woah, the layout of this graphic in the FT is 😍💥🤯https://t.co/Rgz2yW7TAo pic.twitter.com/T3GF4eTvzC

— Colin Angus (@VictimOfMaths) May 27, 2021

Enormously misleading because this is about what you’d expect to see given the available vaccines. Of course presented this way it looks alarming, but realize that it’s coming from a much lower rate, these areas are very small and the testing rate has quadrupled to produce these results.

But for those who worship at the Altar of Eternal Lockdown, this will be like a message directly from their abhorrent god.

This is something I’ve been thinking a lot about too:

I was not all that social in high school, but I would’ve been absolutely devastated to miss those milestone events of my junior and senior year that I actually cared about. And even worse would’ve been not being able to spend time with my friends. You can’t get those experiences back and you can never repeat them. They are invaluable and now to many irrevocably lost. And when you’re young is exactly when those types of events matter so much more, and we spent the greater part of a year with kids isolated behind screens, all the while we frantically screeched that it was no big deal — like it was some minor inconvenience rather than social and psychological terrorism enacted on an almost-unthinkable scale.

Those kids are damaged to some degree or other forever from that experience and most people seem not to care even a little bit.