This is why I struggle to take Biosafety Now seriously as an organization. It's members actively flatten language of 'Lab Leak' to induce an emotional response, rather than informing public on policy, true nature of differential risk in biological research, manufacturing, etc.
Under this definition... is all domestication and processing manufacturing of poultry and swine a 'Lab Leak' if there arise cases of influenza, or other zoonoses in any workers?
If you have to scare people about a 55 year old vaccine manufacturing laboratory accident, in the context of a recent unrelated zoonosis... I think it's fair to question whether you're confident in your advocacy and are sincere in informing and persuading.
Let's be perfectly clear about my contention. I am not denying facts of the 1967 Marburg accident via polio vaccine lab manufacturing. But that's not really what public thinks a 'Lab leaks is, nor does it align with the major threats of lab biosafety, questions of CIVID origins.
It is now clear that 'Lab leak' is becoming a rhetorical Hydra. Rather than becoming more clear and tied to policy solutions, the term is flat and nebulous to consume nearly every aspect of biological research, husbandry, manufacturing, agriculture.
@BrianRWasik so, you just made that part up about husbandry and agriculture. (🍎's) and "manufacturing" is vague. probably meant to slyly include things like vaccine research. (🍊's)