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Safety concerns at a prominent military germ lab have led the government to shut down research involving dangerous microbes like the Ebola virus.
"Research is currently on hold," the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Fort Detrick, Md., said in a statement on Friday. The shutdown is likely to last months, Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman, said in an interview.
The statement said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to issue a "cease and desist order" last month to halt the research at Fort Detrick because the center did not have "sufficient systems in place to decontaminate wastewater" from its highest-security labs.
[...] The suspended research involves certain toxins, along with germs called select agents, which the government has determined have "the potential to pose a severe threat to public, animal or plant health or to animal or plant products." There are 67 select agents and toxins; examples include the organisms that cause Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and plague, and the poison ricin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @01:52PM (5 children)
No, it wouldn't fix any problems. It would just give people who cause problems more resources. If you want people to pay their "fair share", no one making below $200,000 should pay any income taxes at all (this was the original lowest tax bracket when adjusted for inflation).
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday August 09 2019, @03:20PM (4 children)
>. It would just give people who cause problems more resources
Yeah, like road builders. Who needs roads? Or how about police. I mean police, what do they do that doesn't involve doughnuts? On OUR taxpayers dollars? Railways! Pah! Shove your railways where the sun doesn't shine (and I don't mean rail tunnels).
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 09 2019, @03:33PM (2 children)
Things we don't need:
* roads
* bridges
* parks
* traffic signals
* street lights
* public edumacation - is our children learning
* public libraries
* drivers licensing, inspections
* police
* courts
* jails
* national weather service
* geological survey
* environmental protection
* food safety -- who needs food to be safe, if they don't like it, don't eat it
and many other things we take for granted
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday August 09 2019, @03:34PM (1 child)
* GPS
* military
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @04:39AM
> military
Well, arguably, we (USA) could cut back a whole hell of a lot on our military spending, and even with extreme cuts, the only noticeable effect would be a bunch of unemployable folks currently on military welfare going on (the much less expensive to the taxpayer) regular sort of public assistance welfare. That, and trillions of dollars, not wasted murdering folks in far away lands to steal their natural resources, that could go to useful things. We could fund a proper national health system, and make universities free again. Not to mention, all those people, in those far away lands, who won't be murdered/tortured/raped/orphaned/widowed/etc. in US wars of aggression anymore.
And, an additional bonus since the US military is a larger greenhouse gas emitter than many entire countries, we could substantially reduce our negative impacts on climate-- overnight!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 09 2019, @07:43PM
Your taxes don't go to "road builders", they go to people who take 75% to piss away on god knows what like this "ebola factory", then choose which road builder to give it to based on patronage and kickbacks so another half is wasted. All in all you probably get 10% of the roads vs just paying road builders yourself.