Malaria carrying mosquitoes already deliver a malaria vaccine. It's just that that vaccine has a terrible side effect: malaria.

It's not talking about releasing them in the wild. It would be how you get your shot, because apparently it resulted in better protection when delivered through a bite for some reason.

But I get your general sentiment. It's a scary thought, not just this, but the idea that we are now in a place where someone could use mosquitos to deliver chemical weapons, kind of scary.

Also, I'm no expert, but I'm not sure that is a right, if I understand Roe vs Wade reversal, it means the constitution is no longer interpreted to assume bodily autonomy as a constitutional right. And even if it was, that's just in the US, there's many countries where this wouldn't be the case.

It also begs the question, many things enter our bodies, all pollutants for example, radiation, and so on, and we tend to have no or very little say into that as well, what makes it into our waters and air and food, and so on.

Anyways, I think it's an interesting topic, and a good one to discuss.

Am I to understand that mosquitos and malaria somehow got your full consent?

End circumcising first and we can talk about other types of bodily autonomy movements.

> So no say at all, as to what goes into our own bodies? Really?

Right? Everyone has been kindly asking malaria to stay out of our bodies for ages now! Malaria has no respect at all for our rights!

The difference is that Malaria can't gather consent from us. Unlike medical researchers, who have routinely been required to get consent before conducting research or before spreading synthetic materials into our bodies. Without consent you're essentially acting like Josef Mengele.

We don't put malaria into mosquitos to spread it.

If we did we could just stop doing that, but sadly, we don't have that option.

It’s like the trolley problem but one side of the track is clear. But the concept is now so deeply engrained that some people still object to the idea of pulling the lever.

The trolley problem is not for assesing ends vs means discussions, or greater good discussions. It's for asessing how people interpret responsibility.

It's not quite that.

If this was a trolly problem, one side would have several million deaths, there's a lot of switches we can activate at any time, and we're not entirely sure how many people are on each of the other tracks just that there's not many before the bend in the line that takes it through a thick dark jungle of our ignorance.