A prominent British scientist has warned that a new pandemic could be let loose on the world by “deranged” people with unsafe laboratories.
Astrophysicist Lord Martin Rees made the comments while speaking in the House of Lords this week, noting that enhancements in biotechnology mean it is now much easier for rogue actors to obtain, manipulate and enhance a pathogen.
Rees, a former President of the Royal Society, said that the COVID pandemic “is not the worst that could happen” by a long way, further noting that “we need to contemplate a societal or ecological collapse that would be a truly global setback.”
“A leakage from the Wuhan lab cannot be ruled out” as the origin of the COVID pandemic, Rees continued, adding “We cannot rule out lab leakages in the future,” and “there is surely a case for enhancing security and independent monitoring of level four labs around the world which are researching these lethal pathogens.”
“And, more importantly, ensuring that experiments on lethal pathogens are not done in less-secure labs,” Rees urged.
“The real nightmare will be a deranged loner with biotech expertise, who does not care who becomes infected or how many,” Rees further warned, adding “biotech involves small-scale, dual-use technology that will become easily accessible.”
“There are thousands of academic and industrial labs around the world where dangerous pathogens are being studied and modified. An increasing number of individuals will acquire the requisite expertise,” he continued.
“The dangers are looming ever larger; regulation of biotech is needed ever more today… This is the stuff of nightmares,” Rees further declared, adding that “The rising empowerment of malign, tech-savvy groups, or even individuals, by biotech will pose an intractable challenge to governments and aggravate the tensions between freedom, privacy and security.”
Rees suggested that there has to be a “global programme” to see that “vaccines and antidotes become ever more effective and speedily produced.”
The comments come after a recent investigation found a FIFTY PERCENT increase in leaks and accidents at laboratories in the UK since the outbreak of COVID in 2020, warning of “potentially catastrophic consequences” in the future.
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Imagine a scifi story with the plot: something like operation mockingbird is being used to seed a casus belli for war with China as USAF general Mike Minihan forecast for 2025… Plenty of info online detailing how China could have been targeted during the October 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan! Maybe something developed in the Ukrainian bioweapons labs as mentioned by Nuland? And disease X might just be the XS deaths from the various experimental mRNA jabs being tested on people. What an amazing ‘film’ plot it would be…
Fake news!
There are no “eminent” scientists.
Only hack prostitute scientists.
FJB
It is called predictive programming. everything they say is false. even if you ask what’s the time, they will lie. do not trust anything the tv, the parasites or the politicians say.
Let them release whatever they want. Don’t care what the nut jobs do. The new disease x was created by zuckerbergs labs.
BIO WEAPONS exist!
It is called flouridated water. Used by nazis to make prisoners docile.
The only ones infected are those who take the Jab of Death…because of a made-up “virus”.
Stupid humans…
Eminent scientist is broke, so he lies about fake “viruses” for money to help set up the sheeple for the next sham-demic.
Government wants to regulate everything but bio weapons that could annihilate the population.
We common people are the real pandemic in our elitist eyes. That is why they keep making poison to inject us with and insist that we take it.
“The real nightmare will be a deranged loner with biotech expertise, who does not care who becomes infected or how many,”
The CCP and Iran are not loners and they’re not deranged.
china released covid 19, either intentionally or accidentally.
It was most likely on purpose, but you can’t rule out an accident because they’re so fucking incompetent. They’re children standing on the shoulders of giants and don’t have the discipline necessary to be doing this stuff.