The most efficient way to do that is to reduce CO2 in the air.

Did you know that's becasue of increased CO2?

Let us know when you have a virus that obeys border laws.

If it emerges again t won't be exactly the same. Best to be prepared ahead of time instead of spending months, or years after it emerges trying to figure it out.
. Meaning we will \have learned more techniques to help us respond to different vectors, not that it will reemerge exactly like something we have in a lab.
plus, there is still a lot to learn fro it that applies to may viruses.

Potential defenses. It would be a stupid, horrible, and backfire in a lot of ways for a government to use it as a weapon. SOmething government have known since WWI
Globally based theologically motivate nut jobs on the other hand, they won't care cause..'god'.

Well, we wold need the virus for experimentation.
Of course if we can do it at leisure, then so can everyone else.

Goose bumps every time.

Warp Speed, Mr. Scott.

I don't think you know what peasant means.

The problem is a lot of these contractor don't run their company(themselves) like a company.

They should be tucking money away, knowing there will be slow periods.
When the slow period arrive, take it easy for a couple of months.
IT's contracting, no different the being a general contractor o you own construciton company.

haha, I heard that all the time when I did security.
When push came to shove, the people that always stood up and said what needed to be said where always the first to go...for other reasons, of course.

And yes, I mean saying it professionally.

Citation?

I've never read any such requirement. citation?

That's not what is happening tho'.

Contractor has a very specific meaning, and most companies violate that meaning.

A classic example is as a contractor, you an legally hire someone else to do the work for you. Presumably at a lower rate. You set your hours, and several other things. A lot of companies wont let you do that, as such that actually makes you an employee.

"I wasn't a contractor and had no right to negotiate a contract like that, "
I find that hard to believe. An employee can also negotiate what they do, and their wage.

It is in the best interests of the rich to turn an economy into a zero sum game. This happens in all government economic policy don't have regulation in place to stop it.
In the last 25 year, there has been a steady move to get rid of any regulation that tries to limit the players abilities to change it into a zero sum game.
The pubs economic police since Reagan has been to remove equity and regulation in order for the rich to stay in place.