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user-inactivated  ·  3204 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Errol Morris: ‘Demon in the Freezer’

I don't think any of you really understand what you're talking about.

    not likely UNLESS some lab tech does something stupid

No, probably at least ten people would have to be very, very, very stupid (or one willfully evil, but, again, Russia), and several computers would have to break at the same time. Smallpox is one of the most dangerous bioweapons on the planet. You are picturing some intern forgetting to wash their hands. You are wrong.