Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "HasanAbi"
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@jaw-knee771 Moreover, if you look at the sources your article provides, they don't mention a ban on GOF. They say,
"Today, the National Institutes of Health announced that it is lifting a funding pause dating back to October 2014 on gain-of-function (GOF) experiments involving influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses. GOF research is important in helping us identify, understand, and develop strategies and effective countermeasures against rapidly evolving pathogens that pose a threat to public health."
"By October 2014, the Obama administration halted federal funding for such research. A statement from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy suggested an oversight framework that would allow them to resume, but the turnover from the Obama administration to the Trump administration meant the status of this type of research was in flux."
And if you read past the headline of the article you linked, you'll find that the ban wasn't on GOF research, as you surmised, but on federal funding.
"The decision follows a three-year ban on such funding."
As the WH press release from 2014 shows, it was never intended as a ban but rather as a pause on federal funding pending review, and half-way competent journalism reflected that.
And again, genomic studies have shown the virus evolved naturally, not as a product of GOF research.
So your pet theory collapses on all points.
1) Obama didn't ban GOF.
2) Trump didn't renew GOF to spark a pandemic; federal funding resumed per new guidelines after a scientific review.
3) SARS-CoV-2 wasn't created through GOF research but evolved naturally.
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@vxxiii4160 The mistake with this kind of reasoning is that it assumes that some political entity, some economic arrangement called communism can exist alongside capitalism, for a long time now a hegemonic, global system.
The Marxist view has always been that societies are organic wholes, and they cannot be totally changed in a short period nor exist abstracted from their environment. Economic transformation is a process.
Capitalism didn't emerge fully formed from the calf of feudalism; and for centuries after it made its first tremulous steps in the world, it bore the traces of its ancestor.
The accusation of "abused to the point of mass murder" shouldn't be brushed aside, but it is a strange defense for the status quo given the incalculable lives blithely squandered, trampled, and suffocated in the name of capitalism's juggernaut, "progress."
That said, if you want a picture of what a society evolving toward communism can look like, there are examples, though not widely known to the public—Spain in the 30s, Chiapas under the Zapatistas, the AANES in Rojava.
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