{"id":36852,"date":"2022-01-17T01:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36852"},"modified":"2022-01-17T01:08:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T14:08:15","slug":"stop-the-weaponization-of-pathogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36852","title":{"rendered":"Stop the Weaponization of Pathogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36853\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/stop_weaponizing_pathogens.png\" alt=\"Stop Weaponizing Pathogens\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/stop_weaponizing_pathogens.png 250w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/stop_weaponizing_pathogens-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/stop_weaponizing_pathogens-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the global COVID-19 saga continues, the debates rage on. Masks, or no masks? This drug, or that one? Send kids to school, or keep them home?<\/p>\n<p>Yet absent from most of the day-to-day mainstream coverage of COVID-related issues is the life-or-death conversation we <em>should <\/em>be having: How do we make sure that this\u2014or something much worse\u2014never happens again?<\/p>\n<p>On that question, there should be no debate: It\u2019s time to end the reckless genetic engineering and weaponizing of pathogenic viruses and organisms, carried out under the guise of \u201cbiomedicine\u201d and \u201cbiodefense,\u201d by demanding an immediate and total global ban on all gain-of-function research.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/advocacy.organicconsumers.org\/page\/18957\/petition\/1\">https:\/\/advocacy.organicconsumers.org\/page\/18957\/petition\/1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the global COVID-19 saga continues, the debates rage on. Masks, or no masks? This drug, or that one? Send kids to school, or keep them home? Yet absent from most of the day-to-day mainstream coverage of COVID-related issues is the life-or-death conversation we should be having: How do we make sure that this\u2014or something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=36852\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stop the Weaponization of Pathogens&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36854,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36852\/revisions\/36854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}