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Easy to scoff at an obvious headline, but SARS-CoV-2 may very well be endemic now. Going forward pandemic preparedness will no longer be reserved for the Fortune 5s or 50s.

New construction for a while at least will hopefully consider biosecurity and pandemic preparedness as concrete a threat as natural disasters.

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Hopefully the labs doing gain of function research in the US will increase their bio security levels as well.

https://www.thestreet.com/latest-news/the-next-pandemic-coul...

I wonder how many countries and ideological groups have the ability to do GoF research. The US and China obviously do. I'm assuming all of the G7 plus Russia do. Maybe India too? The problem is that the pandemic has shown just how impactful this type of research can be and what it can create. Most countries don't want to create bioweapons that are going to have blowback on them but ideological groups within those countries may very well be willing to accept losing some members in exchange for bringing the current world order to a halt. Security, both physical and social, will indeed need a healthy increase.

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