Are you dead yet?
Gone are the days of Jonas Salk and Louis Pasteur, we now live in the era of Yoshihiro Kawaoka.
He took the 2009 pandemic flu virus and selected out strains that were not neutralized by human antibodies. He repeated this several times until he got a real humdinger of a virus. He left no doubt in my mind that he had achieved it. He used a flu virus that is known to infect humans and then manipulated it in such a way that it would effectively leave the global population defenseless if it ever escaped from his laboratory. He’s basically got a known pandemic strain that is now resistant to vaccination. Everything he did before was dangerous but this is even madder. This is the virus.
What is the difference between a madman with a gun, and a madman with a petri dish? Answer: The guy with the petri dish gets government funding.
What happens when some idiot decides to go after Kawaoka's lab the way they did the UW Sterling Hall?
Maybe the government could get Kawaoka to move his lab to Ilha de Queimada Grande.
/fl