How to Build a Reliable Epidemic Monitor

The potential for a profoundly disturbed person or group to trigger a future pandemic with an artificial pathagin that's designed to be maximally deadly and contagious. The skills and methodologies needed to create such a pathagin are currently limited to a smallish group of experts, people who are hopefully all good guys. But those capabilities will inevitably become very widespread because the related tools are improving extremely rapidly while becoming far easier to use and massively cheaper. And parsing internet data for signs of outbreaks is one of the counter measures that's explored in my long episode with sam harris.