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In this administration stupid is the norm. Haven't you noticed?

I'm anti-Trump as can be, but I'd suspect this moratorium was always intended to be temporary while the protocols to protect us from accidents were checked and revised if necessary. There's genuine merit to understanding what makes a virus vary in lethality and how to combat that.

There's plenty of things to bash this administration on. I don't think this is one of them.

Maybe your right. Keeping up with all the things they throw out on a daily basis is tiresome, and I don't have time to research all of them.

You could read the first sentence of the article:

"Federal officials on Tuesday ended a moratorium imposed three years ago on funding research that alters germs to make them more lethal."

or a little further down:

"In October 2014, all federal funding was halted on efforts to make three viruses more dangerous: the flu virus, and those causing Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)."

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