Conspiracy theory; Wuhan and monkey pox

 there are labs out there doing investigations on which germs could cause problems. Some of them are associated with the military (because epidemics of STDs, typhus, etc can destroy armies). But some are now funded by civilian organizations, including those associated with the WHO.

Nothing new here: Except that after Covid, all such research is viewed as a conspiracy theory about how bad leaders of the NWO want to kill off excess population.

Of course, much of the real worry is that the virus will escape and cause deaths on a massive scale: a theme of numerous sci fi movies, from The Stand to the Andromena strain.

In the past, most of this research was published in obcure journals and hard even for ordinary docs to read and understand, although the conspiracy types would sometimes pick up the article and publicize it (with exaggerations and without explanations).

But the iffy practices of some of these labs are now being examined by the public, especially since the  coverup story of the origin of the Wuhan covid virus is slowly being questioned.

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 It's very important to describe this because it appears to be an increase in a mode of transmission that may have been under-recognised in the past unfortunate if monkeypox exploit the immunity gap left by smallpox 40 years ago there is still a window to close the outbreak....

....link,,Efficient assembly of a large fragment of monkeypox virus genome as a qPCR template using dual-selection based transformation-associated recombination

I'll have to read this in detail later, but Dr C pretty well has a good discussion about this.

but hey, why worry: Wuhan lady is doing the same thing to bird flu, which is a lot more fatal for humans, and is a threat to the food chain of cheap protein (eggs and chickens).

.... update: LATIMES worries it will stigmatize all gays and notes that it can spread to everyone. Just ignore the behavior that spreads it, guys, because it might imply that changing behavior might slow or stop it's spread...