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#55 – Jassi Pannu and Joshua Monrad on Pandemic Preparedness

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Biosecurity Is Not Just a Concern for the Future of Humanity

I think one big realization for me was that you as we've talked a bit about earlier you need not be motivated by a concern for the future of humanity to want to focus on biosecurity. I think there's such a strong argument from neglectedness for focusing on this these risks from the advances in in biology and the risks that they pose or even frankly the risks posed by engineered biology. It does seem to me that it's just a feel where a lot of really important work needs to have them to stop really really bad pandemics regardless of whether you're motivated by the future of human, he says. "It doesn't feel like a sane world where this is so neglected

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